• Abongile Manci celebrates 5 years with FMS
      • Janet Pitcher celebrates 25 years with FMS
      • Gerald Skead celebrates 5 years with FMS
      • Lawrence Haw celebrates 5 years with FMS
      • Mandisa Mani celebrates 5 years with FMS
      • IIse Theunnissen celebrates 20 years with FMS
      • FMS migrates the Johannesburg Agent’s Head Office import process to the New Back Office System
    • Lance Rowan celebrates 25 years with FMS
    • Justin Davis celebrates 15 years with FMS
    • Richard Pilkington celebrates 10 years with FMS
    • Dr. Justy Range celebrates 5 years with FMS
    • Mario Peters celebrates 25 years with FMS
    • Carol Trollip celebrates 30 years with FMS
    • Siya Botya celebrates 10 years with FMS
    • Lesotho opened a fresh produce market, and implemented FMS commission system solution on the market
    • FMS migrates the Subtropico Head Office, DW Fresh and Protea Market Agents to new Back Office System
    • Dave Larkan and Dot Bailey celebrate 30 years with FMS
    • Deon Craytor joins FMS as COO
    • Janane O’Reilly celebrates 5 years with FMS
    • Momelezi Tanana celebrates 10 years with FMS
    • Christo Raath celebrates 15 years with FMS
    • FMS is awarded a contract to assist DALRRD with their Risk Assessment for Land Reform Farms and State-owned Land
    • FMS develops and deploys AgriReg – an agricultural producer registry
    • FMS installs full trading and payments solution for ZambiaFresh Lusaka Market
    • FMS upgrades the Back Office System from Pick to Legend for Mthatha Market
    • Launch of new Ticketing System
    • Matthew Davis celebrates 5 years with FMS
    • Nkalimeng Lekonyana celebrates 5 years with FMS
    • Joburg Market interface to Back Office system upgraded to new interface
    • FMS and Green Network (GROW) started working on a direct trade solution for the company, tailored to their needs
    • FMS upgrades the Back Office System from Pick to Legend for Klerksdorp and Cape Town Markets
    • Janet Pitcher celebrates 20 years with FMS
    • Ilse Theunissen celebrates 15 years with FMS
    • FMS office moves from Norvia House in Vincent to Infinity Place Beacon Bay
    • Founder of FMS, Gunther Johannsen, celebrates 80th Birthday and the main Boardroom is named ‘The Gunther Johannsen Boardroom’ in his honour.
    • Migration from Pick Sales / Back Office to REFRESH / Back Office for George Market and RSA Market Agents Joburg
    • FMS upgrades the Back Office System from Pick to Legend for Durban, Pretoria and Mpumalanga Markets
    • Lance Rowan celebrates 20 years with FMS
    • Justin Davis celebrates 10 years with FMS
    • Richard Pilkington celebrates 5 Years with FMS
    • Dr. Justy Range Joins FMS as Business Development Officer
    • Dot Bailey emigrates to the UK but remains an employee and continues her duties as a Director
    • FMS upgrades the Back Office System from Pick to Legend for Pietermaritzburg, Vereeniging, Welkom and Witbank Markets
    • Mario Peters Celebrates 20 years with FMS
    • After 3 years of development the new BACKOFFICE system is installed at East London.
    • Dave Larkan and Dot Bailey celebrate 25 years of service with FMS.
    • Mooketsi regional market opens and installs REFRESH.
    • FMS is awarded Honorary Membership of IMASA.
    • Revolutionary new Web Services product installed at Tshwane Market.
    • FMS is awarded a 5 year contract with Cape Town Market and installs REFRESH.
    • Rietpol regional market opens and installs REFRESH.
    • Sebata Municipal Solutions, a MicroMega Group company acquires a 55% stake in FMS.
    • Witbank and Garden Route Express markets upgrade to the REFRESH system.
    • October – FMS move to new office premises.
    • FMS announced as a finalist for the IITPSA “Employer of the year” award.
    • REFRESH is installed in Mpumalanga, Vareeniging and Klerksdrop
    • Namibian markets projects starts
    • Mpumalanga, Vereeniging and Klerksdrop markets upgrade to the REFRESH system
    • REFRESH is installed in Welkom, Pretoria and Kimberley
    • Carol Trollip celebrates 20 years with FMS
    • REFRESH is installed at East London and Durban
    • Dave Larkan and Dot Bailey celebrate 20 years with FMS
    • Gabarone market (Botswana) install the REFRESH
    • REFRESH is installed at Umtata, Bloemfontein and Springs
    • Appleco becomes the first site running REFRESH
    • Development of project REFRESH begins
    • Mr Mtheza Buya is appointed as Chairman of the Board
    • In a BEE transaction Sthathu Equity Investments acquire 30% in FMS
    • Alice Market opens and installs the Freshmark system
    • BKCOB recognizes FMS with a “Long Service Award” for 16 years uninterrupted membership
    • Phillipi (Cape Town) market opens and installs Freshmark system
    • Ugu (Port Shepstone) market opens and installs the Freshmark system
    • Mpumalanga Market opens and installs the Freshmark System
    • FMS is recognized as a Proudly South African company
    • FMS training division opens
    • Uitenhage market installs Freshmark system
    • Umtata market is built and installs the Freshmark System
    • FMS wins the CFI outsourcing contract and opens its Cape Town office
    • Cape Fresh International outsource the operations and management of the Trading System to FMS
    • Botha Roodt, Marco and Subtropico agents at Jhb market install the Freshmark System.
    • The Freshmark system is install at 3 new markets in Botswana – Francistown, Bobonong & Shakawe
    • FMS co-founded Technofresh (Pty) Ltd with RSA market agents
    • FMS opens Johannesburg offices
    • Sees the introduction of integrated off server applications for market agents: Electronic banking, automated faxing, SMS and Document archiving systems
    • FMS receives Top Solutions Partner Award for Southern Africa from Raining Data – USA
    • Dave Larkan presents an ICT paper at the World Union of Wholesale Markets
    • Founding member Mr Gunther Johannsen retires
    • George market opens and installs the system
    • FMS guides each and every client without hassle through the dreaded Y2K
    • RSA market agents the largest on the Johannesburg market install the Freshmark System. The system is adapted to import data from an Oracle system
    • In a once off project FMS supplies the IT services for the Daimler-Chrysler recruitment project in East London. In excess of 45000 applications are processed in just 6 weeks.
    • Management buyout of FMS from ITI Holdings
    • FMS receives award as 3rd best VAR for Pick Systems Africa.
    • FMS installs the first Linux based system on a market.
    • North end market in PE installs the system
    • Dave Larkan assumes role of Managing Director at FMS
    • FMS is bought by iti Holdings and placed in their Agri focused division – Agrihub
    • Lobatse market in Botswana install the system
    • Kimberley market installs the system
    • The South African Excellence Foundation (SAEF) business performance monitoring model is adopted and implementation begins.
    • Butterworth market opens and installs the system
    • King Williams Town market opens and installs the system
    • Dot Bailey becomes a partner.
    • Move from original rented premises to “Freshmark House”
    • Pietersburg market opens installs the system
    • Founding GOLD member of Fresh Produce Marketing Association (FPMA)
    • Dave Larkan becomes a partner at FMS
    • Pretoria market installs and becomes the biggest market using the system.
    • Nelspruit market opens and becomes the first private market to install the system.
    • Witbank market installs the system running it on Universe.
    • Pietermaritzburg market installs the system.
    • Dave Larkan & Dot Bailey leave ELCB to join Gunther at FMS.
    • FMS breaks away from ELCB
    • The East London Market system is converted onto an IBM machine running the Pick RDBMS.
    • Vereeniging market installs the system
    • Cape Town market installs the system
    • Durban market install the system
    • Welkom market installs the system
    • Klerksdorp market installs the system.
    • Bloemfontein market installs the system.
    • Springs market becomes the second market to install the Freshmark solution.
    • Port Elizabeth market installs the system.
    • FMS adopts the Pick Post Relational Database Management System (DBMS).
    • The new improved integration modular market management system is installed at the East London Market
    • Freshmark Systems C.C. is registered. Continues as a division of ELCB
    • FMS installs the first IBM running AIX system on a market.