• 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.
  • The East London Computer Bureau (ELCB) commissioned to write a control system for the East London Municipal market. The system was developed and installed running on a CLAN machine using the UNIVERSE database model