The Fourie brothers, Piet, Ian and Albert became Telkor Franchise (Part of Reunert Group).
Telkor Franchises unbundled, and the Fourie brothers all became Teleboss Operators
After working at Teleboss for nearly two years, Teleboss was sold.
Ian Fourie became an Independent operator for Aristel in KwaZulu-Natal.
Aristel (Natal Communications) diversified into launching Xietel Digital, the first Computer Telephony Integration based system on the market.
Naas Fourie joined the company promoting Xietel Digital across the country. During the course of this 2 year period he opened branches in Maputo, Mozambique.
Naas Fourie launched the first IT offerings under "Your Communication Company" which would later become CloudCo.
CloudCo became a Microsoft Education partner.
The first CloudCo terminals services based systems and hosted VOIP went live, and the CloudCo business model became services orientated.
CloudCo along with Cloud Distribution (Founded by Naas Fourie) became the exclusive distributor of a trust on OEM Manufacturer of HP at that time. This enabled the two companies to offer tailored Hybrid Cloud Solutions to the Education Sector.
CloudCo and Cloud Distribution secured a sub contracting role with the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA) on the rapid deployment project across South Africa, deploying computer labs to community centers in rural parts of the country.
Naas Fourie established the first CloudCo branches outside of Durban. During this time the Centurion, Gauteng branch has become the CloudCo Headquarters.
CloudCo has opened a new branch in Cape Town.
CloudCo became a Fortinet Partner and was soon established as a Server Message Block (SMB) Hero.
After the Establishment of CloudCo in 2007, the company has managed to open yet another branch, in Gaborone, Botswana. This would make the branch count 4 in total.
After 9 years of continually doing business with Microsoft, CloudCo has become one of Microsoft's GOLD partners.
Although we recognize all of our successes, we are humble enough to also acknowledge our failures.
During the years 1993 – 2000, between running a successful business from the Free State, and establishing a new business in the KwaZulu-Natal, there had been mistakes made and many fortunes were lost.
Fortunately we failed forward (2008-2013) and managed to rebuild our business, only to be hampered again in 2008 during the global financial crisis.
It was during this time that our family was considered in a really bad place, so much so that for our own survival we had to move to an area that was predominantly an informal settlement.
We needed to do this to reset our operational expenses, allowing us to underpin our foundations stronger than ever before.
Survival wasn’t optional!
