Eddy Groves - Early Life

Early Life

Eddy Groves was born in Durban, South Africa to a soldier and a schoolteacher. The family returned to Canada in late 1966. A further relocation found the family on the West Coast (Victoria, British Columbia) in July 1968. Eddy arrived in Australia by 1970 and settled in Queensland, Australia.

He was educated at Padua College.

After leaving school, he enrolled at university in a business degree, but left half way through, eager to engage in business rather than learn about it, and got his first job as a bank clerk with the ANZ. Later he became a milkman for Paul's Milk in Brisbane. Armed with a loan from his wife's father he bought a distributorship when he was nineteen years old which was the start of his business career. He expanded his milk distribution business to the point where his company Quantum Food is now the biggest distributor of milk in Queensland.

In 1985, at the age of nineteen, Groves married Le Neve, with whom he has two daughters. The couple split in the late 1990s leaving his wife to care for the two children. His wife is suing her former husband for "unjustly enriching himself" while he was in control of ABC. Groves left ABC with a multi-billion dollar debt amidst allegations of poor financial management and related party financial dealings.