Bruno Grollo

Bruno Grollo (born 1942, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian businessman.

Grollo Group project HM@S Apartment in No.1 Beach Street, Port Melbourne

Grollo headed Australia's largest construction company, Grocon, whose credits include the construction of the tallest buildings in Melbourne, Rialto Towers and Eureka Tower.[1] In 1999, Grollo's sons Adam and Daniel were instated as joint managing directors.[2][3] Today, Grocon employs a fluctuating workforce of 300 to 1200.[4]

Grollo proposed building the tallest building in the world, the Grollo Tower, but construction never commenced.[5]

In 2006, Grollo was listed in Forbes top 40 richest people in Australia and New Zealand.[6]

In late December 1994, Grollo's father Luigi Grollo—the patriarch and founder of the Grocon Construction Company—had died and left him and his brother, Rino Grollo, the two controlling heirs to his empire. Since then, the Grollo brothers have accomplished truly monumental achievements; such as the construction of Melbourne's tallest buildings including the Eureka Tower completed in 2006. Grollo's father, Luigi, was an Italian immigrant who was faced with poverty when he first settled in Australia. The Italian immigrant started a concrete company that is known today as Grocon Construction.

Grollo started working in his father's company at a very young age, claiming to start as young as possible. Grollo dropped out of school at fifteen years old to pick up tools and start his career in the construction business. Grollo had learned valuable lessons from working with the blue collar employees; the experiences have proved to be extremely valuable learning experiences that now have exemplified to be immensely profitable to his time as a leader of a huge corporation in Australia. Grollo and his brother Rino were both apart of their father's business, Grocon Cosntruction, back when it would be considered a small business.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Developers find new buzzword". Theage.com.au. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
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  5. ↑ "One kilometre high and counting". Theage.com.au. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "Bruno Grollo, Australia & New Zealand's 40 Richest - Forbes.com". Forbes.com. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  7. ↑ A Tall Story; Deborah Stone; The Sunday Age; February 26, 1995

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