Grocon
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| Grocon | |
| Private | |
| Industry | Construction |
| Founded | Melbourne, Australia (1948) |
| Founder | Luigi Grollo |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
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Area served
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Australia, New York |
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Key people
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Daniel Grollo (Executive Chairman) Carolyn Viney (Chief Executive Officer) |
| Services | Property development, construction and funds management |
| Revenue | A$486 million (FY2012) |
| Owner | Bruno Grollo, Daniel Grollo, and family |
| Website | www |
Daniel Grollo (Executive Chairman)
Grocon Pty Ltd, or more commonly Grocon, is Australia's largest privately owned development, construction and funds management company. With its head office located in Melbourne, Victoria, the company also has offices in Sydney, Brisbane and New York City. Over the past twenty years, Grocon has delivered four of Australia's five tallest buildings. Three generations of the Grollo family have been involved in managing the company. Grocon has an extensive history of industrial disputes in Australia, particularly with the CFMEU including on-going litigation.
Grocon grew from a small family concreting business established in Victoria, by Luigi Grollo after he emigrated from Treviso in Italy in 1938. A one-man operation, Luigi Grollo set up his own business in 1948 and completed small concreting projects, such as paving, shopping centre car parks, sewerage infrastructure and swimming pools. His sons Rino and Bruno Grollo joined the business at the age of 15. The business expanded rapidly in the 1950s by continuing with concreting of municipal swimming pools and petrol stations in Melbourne. In the years following, the Grollo Group would transition from the building of local community assets throughout the 1960s to constructing landmark developments.
In the 1970s, Grocon moved into concrete construction, such as shopping centres and high-rise buildings and started developing the projects themselves. It was also during the 1970s that Luigi Grollo handed the company over to his two sons and the business continued to rapidly expand. In 1975, Grocon moved to Darwin for 18 months after winning a large contract for rebuilding after Cyclone Tracy. This contract involved the construction of 400 houses for the government. Following this, the Grollo Group went on to develop buildings and operate businesses in a wide cross-section of industries, including commercial, residential, industrial, education, retail, sporting and tourism.
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