News Articles for Sam Castelli

As a successful entrepreneur, Sam Castelli shows a different approach to generational change.

The Castelli family's Denmark hospitality venue and winery is up for sale, 20 years after they acquired the key asset of disgraced lawyer Rohan Skea.

The Italian migrant played a key role in building United Construction and Monadelphous into two of Australia's most successful engineering and construction contractors.

Australia's first community wind farm is to be built in Mount Barker, providing enough energy for the town when it is completed

In 1969, John (Giovanni) Rubino, John (Giancarlo) Trettel, Sam (Santino) Castelli and Charlie (Carmelo) Bontempo were among the thousands of young migrants toiling in workshops and construction sites across Australia.

Monadelphous Group is one of Western Australia's biggest and most successful engineering construction companies, but it wouldn't be running today if it hadn't been rescued by the co-founders of United Construction.

Property investment and property development have been the main commercial pursuits of John Trettel, Sam Castelli and Charlie Bontempo since they left United Group.

The year 1991 was a bad time to be in business. It was the year Australia had “the recession we had to have”, to quote the immortal words of then Prime Minister Paul Keating.