Company type | Private |
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Industry | Home construction |
Founded | 1976 |
Founders | Mario Biasin George Kline |
Headquarters | Mount Waverley, Melbourne |
Area served | Australia |
Key people | Peter Langfelder (Chief Executive) |
Products | Houses |
Number of employees | 2,500 (2022) |
Website | www.metricon.com.au |
Metricon is a home construction company in Australia. The company has been the largest home builder in Australia since 2016. [1] [2] Metricon currently runs its operation from its headquarters in Mount Waverley. Metricon also builds in New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. As at May 2022, it had 2,500 employees. [3]
Metricon was founded by Mario Biasin and George Kline in Caulfield, Melbourne in 1976 to build homes, develop land, sell house and land packages and construct commercial buildings. [4]
In September 2024, Sumitomo Forestry Group announced it would acquire a 51 per cent stake in Metricon for A$115 million. [5]
From 2011 until 2022, Metricon was the naming rights of Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast, the home stadium of the Gold Coast Suns. [6] [7] From 2018 until 2022, Metricon was shirt sponsor of the Melbourne Victory. [8] [9] [10] In 2019, Metricon became naming rights sponsor of the South Sydney Rabbitohs high performance centre at Redfern Oval. [11]
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