Metricon is a

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company in Australia. The company has been the largest home builder in Australia since 2016. Metricon currently runs its operation from its headquarters in Mount Waverley. Metricon also builds in

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and

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. As at May 2022, it had 2,500 employees.

History

Metricon was founded by Mario Biasin and George Kline in Caulfield,

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in 1976 to build homes, develop land, sell house and land packages and construct commercial buildings. In September 2024, Sumitomo Forestry Group announced it would acquire a 51 per cent stake in Metricon for A$115 million.

Sponsorships

From 2011 until 2022, Metricon was the

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on the Gold Coast, the home stadium of the

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. From 2018 until 2022, Metricon was shirt sponsor of the

Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory ...

. In 2019, Metricon became naming rights sponsor of the

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high performance centre at

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.Rabbitohs and Metricon to continue partnership in 2019 and beyond

10 January 2019

References

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