Midas Construction Ltd sponsor the Funchal 500 Tall Ships Regatta activities in Falmouth
Midas Construction, the largest privately owned Construction Company in the south west is a major sponsor of the Funchal 500 Tall Ship Regatta in activities taking place in Falmouth and has provided essential mobile office accommodation, fencing and barriers required within the Docks so that the public may have safe access to view the ships at close quarters.
From small beginnings more than 30 years ago, the Midas Group has become one of the largest independent property services company in the South and one of the fastest-growing businesses of its type in the UK, with a turnover of over £230m and 550 staff, specialising in Construction, Retail, Interiors, Affordable Housing and Developments.
Midas Construction Cornwall Division, based for the last fifteen years in St Austell, has recently moved to Indian Queens from where they carry out around £50 million worth of work a year. Recent projects include the construction of a student accommodation campus comprising of ten accommodation blocks and 530 student apartments at Tremough, Penryn; the redevelopment of St Mellion Golf Club which includes an 80 bedroom hotel, 270 houses and the refurbishment of the club house in time for hosting the 2009 English Open Tournament and; the £2 million refurbishment of Rick Stein’s internationally renowned Seafood Restaurant in Padstow.
Executive Director, Murdo Mace, commented; “The Regatta activities will attract a significant contribution to the Cornish economy which is extremely important to us, we are always delighted to sponsor first class events such at this.”
John Hick, Chairman of the Funchal 500 Tall Ships Regatta organising committee in Falmouth added; “It is only with the huge commitment and generosity of companies like Midas that we have any hope of staging events of this scale and complexity and the future of the ability of Falmouth and Cornwall to hold large events, depends on the partnership support of companies such as Midas”.
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