The Proud History of Connect NZ

1979 Company founded in Wellington by Paul Williams to sell business machine consumables

1985 Panasonic introduce first G3 fax into NZ

1986 We rebrand as Panasonic Office Automation in Wellington and then in Hamilton

1988 Our first corporate order for multiple PC's

1989 NZ Telecom's market deregulated

1990 We are appointed first Telecom Accredited Dealer in Wellington & Hamilton

1995 Awarded IBM Tier One status

1996 Appointed Lucent Business Partner

1997 Opened office in Auckland as the exclusive channel for Panasonic and Lucent Technologies

1998 Implementation of Australasia's first All Media Call Centre

2001 Purchased Ericsson Business Centre in Auckland

2002 Acquisition of Office Automation in Christchurch, establishes South Island presence

2003 Cablecraft base acquired in Wellington.  Implementation of NZ's first multiple site Avaya VoIP network

2004 Awarded Avaya "Business Partner of the Year"

2005 Acquisitions of iByte in Auckland and Ocom in Hamilton.  Awarded Telecom's "Dealer of the Year"

2006 ABLE Group folded into Connect NZ (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch) boosting ICT engineering capabilities

2007 Connect NZ designs and implements a multi-site Contact Centre, using Avaya Media Server & Gateways with full CRM integration.   Connect NZ also designs and implements a million dollar multimedia installation for a key NZ company

2009 Connect celebrates 30 years in business. In February, we signed a partnership with ShoreTel, a leading global provider of pure IP Unified Communications solutions.  This addition strengthens our ability to design, implement and support voice, video & data infrastructure and applications for all NZ businesses. Acquisition of Toucan Computers introduces the Apple brand to Connect.

2010 Connect NZ wins a contract to supply audiovisual solutions for the largest tenanted building in New Zealand. We are awarded Platinum AMX status, become Gold certified with Polycom and are recognised as a Tier One partner to Toshiba and Apple. Awarded "ShoreTel Deal of the Year - Asia Pacific" for a 600 employee phone system installation. DART (our in-house software development) passes 2.5m pages per month.

2011 The infinity logo is incorporated in the new Connect branding to represent unlimited opportunity for growth. Connect have preferred audiovisual partnerships with a number of Universities in New Zealand. Re-signed a million dollar contract to supply laptops to students at one of NZ's largest schools.