RUSSELL Garraway is not a household name in Mildura. And that's just fine by him.

He has deliberately kept a low profile as he built up an imposing earthworks business from Sunraysia in recent years.

The quiet achiever started with a "couple of bits of machinery" in Mildura, where he teamed up with father John nearly three decades ago.

But today his earthworks business, the Garraway Group, has...