The Interview
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ARNOLD VITOCCO
With Rob Langton
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR | VITOCCO ENTERPRISES
Our special guest on this episode is Arnold Vitocco - Founder & Managing Director of diversified family office Vitocco Enterprises. Vitocco Enterprises is one of Australia’s most successful family-run private corporations, with a pedigree dating back some seventy years and a portfolio of assets that encompasses holdings across the property development, real estate investment, retail, agriculture and food and beverage sectors. The origins of the company date back to Arnold’s father Domenic Vitocco OAM, whom migrated from Italy to Liverpool in 1956 and set about learning the fundamentals of construction, initially working as a concreter before launching & successfully building his own business, D. Vitocco Constructions into a major property player in Sydney’s South West over the course of the next forty years - a period that saw the business develop an estimated two-thousand residential & commercial properties including apartments, factories & office buildings across Liverpool, Macarthur and surrounds. With exposure to property development and the rigours of business from an early-age, Arnold followed in his father’s footsteps. Between 1977 and 1982, he attended boarding school at St Gregory’s College, before later enrolling in a four-year Diploma of Building Certificate course at Granville College (now known as TAFE Granville). Following completion of his studies, Arnold worked in the family business before identifying an opportunity in the late 1980’s that would become one of the pivotal moments of his career. In 1989, after witnessing the growth of South-West Sydney first-hand, Arnold aged twenty-four recognised the region’s lack of retail amenity presented an immense opportunity and set about acquiring the first five-acre parcel of land and old shops for a million dollars in a joint-venture partnership with Tony Perich
6 – October / November 2024
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