Grant Wilckens of G’Day Group left investment banking to run Discovery Parks caravan parks and El Questro resort


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In 2008, Grant Wilckens owned a four-year-old caravan park business, supported by $15 million of equity and $40 million of debt.

It was the wrong time to be heavily geared. The global financial crisis hit that year and investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, leaving his company, now known as G’Day Group, struggling to stay afloat.

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