It’s the quintessential Australian business success story that’s been retold to investors countless times: Wes Maas, a retired rugby league player, retreats to the bush with an earth-moving machine and a tipper, and through a combination of smarts and hard yakka creates a multibillion-dollar fortune on the ASX.

His skilful expansion of Maas Group from a fledgling equipment-hire operation to an integrated construction, building materials, and development empire won the trust of hard-headed sharemarket investors who have seen it all before.

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