FixNGrout founder Brad Young has taken home top honors at the 40Under40 Awards, recognising the state’s most influential young business leaders.
The award celebrates a genuinely Australian business story. At 17, Brad returned from overseas looking for work and started helping in a small family friend’s grouting business. What began as casual labour became a trade, then a business, then a national operation — today employing more than 100 team members across Western Australia, Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.
Judges highlighted the company’s combination of old-fashioned service values — show up on time, do quality work, stand behind it — with genuinely modern operations, including an AI-powered field service system that has drawn international attention.
Accepting the award, Brad credited the team: the technicians, assessors and office staff who deliver thousands of warranty-backed projects every year, and the customers and partners who supported a regrouting business nobody predicted would become a household name.
The recognition joins a growing trophy shelf that includes a Smart50 listing — but as Brad puts it, the review that matters most is still the one a customer leaves after their shower stops leaking.
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