Aug 11, 2026 – 5.00amGrant Wilckens trained as an accountant and was working in investment banking. But he wanted to run his own business and spotted a gap in the leisure market.His first move was to buy a caravan park in Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Sally PattenBOSS editorSally Patten edits BOSS, and writes about workplace issues. She was the financial services editor and personal finance editor of the AFR, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. She edited business news for The Times of London.Iona RennieProducerIona Rennie is a producer at The Australian Financial Review.Fetching latest articles
This exec left banking to buy a caravan park. Now he runs an empire
Grant Wilckens co-founded G’Day Group in 2004 and never looked back – apart from the time when he could have lost everything.
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