March 1985
CMS was born out of the need to provide education to specifiers as opposed to the more traditional sales approaches for selling building products and services
April 1986
CMS becomes a Limited Liability Company in NZ, owned by the initial founders Lester Haycock and Kent Baigent Group.
CMS founding principles:
- Put your personality of your brand and people behind your proposition.
- Specifiers with the building and services industry require ongoing attention however never have the time to see the long list of people necessary to gain this knowledge
- Communication and Education via a cost sharing basis for most brands provides a reach which would otherwise be impossible.
- CMS will be a walking advertisement to delivering key point messages while educating key industry specifiers
1987
CMS extends its position to establish showrooms in main centres enabling display of products otherwise not achievable my many partner brands
1988
CMS News Review is launched enabling the first formal communication message to the masses
1989
CMS Consumer Education begins with the first Show Homes being established via a partnership with Ashton Marsh
1990
CMS establishes an expansion into Australia at the request of partner NZ brands
1992
CMS establishes the first Tomorrows Show Home in Howick illustrating the first building icons with Life Cycle Costing and Cost Management. The first CMS Icons were born which today remain the foundation of Future Proof Building
1994
CMS expands into Regional Marketing with the first Future Proof Building Road Shows
2003
Future Proof Building Brand – FPB is born
2005
Lester Haycock and Kent Baigent Group sell shareholding
2005
Carters makes purchase of CMS shareholding
2007
Plumbing World makes purchase of CMS shareholding
