About us

A hobby and passion for Olympic sailing led our founder David Tabb to leave his job in hardware and software engineering to set up Tabb Sails selling sails and yacht masts.

Tabb Sails was introduced to extruded aluminium sections and began exploring the manufacture of temporary structures.

A storm blew the main exhibition tent at Southampton Boatshow down. David sought to ask why not use aluminium structures instead, thus began the process of designing structures.

David was approached by a client who had heard his story, and asked him to manufacture some small structures. He designed ‘Tabby Tents’ and began supplying to the British military.

During the recession, David’s friend was struggling to keep his business running, so suggested that they go and win some more tent contracts to make some money. They won the contract for the Beneteau Cup.

As more enquiries started to roll in, Mar-Key Marquees Ltd was born!

Ben Scroggie (now Group CEO) joins the company as a summer labourer.

The business experiences significant growth in the manufacturing division, supplying to industrial clients such as Tesco.

Rebrand from Mar-Key Marquees Ltd to Mar-Key Group after a 600% growth in industrial sales to retail clients.

Significant growth over the last few years continues to build brand credibility, and Mar-Key Group is made official supplier to The America’s Cup World Series in Portsmouth.

As the world of events comes to a stop due to Coronavirus, Mar-Key Group divert all of their stock and staff to supplying structures to the NHS, retailers and key workers to support the national efforts during the pandemic.

Our ‘Events’ and ‘Structure Solutions’ two divisional strategy is launched on our brand new website.

New HQ and manufacturing facility opens in Christchurch, Dorset and the business secures significant investment from Alcuin Capital Partners to fuel future growth.