• Incorporation of Playfair Enterprises in January 2005.
• Playfair Enterprises turnover exceeded $1m year one of trading
• Playfair Enterprises awarded rising star award at Cobra Group's national convention for results achieved over first 12 months of business.
• Incorporation of Playfair & Co. in August 2007
• Playfair Enterprises awarded Chairmans club award at Cobra Group's national convention for results
• Playfair & Co. was the leading customer acquisition channel for Energy Australia for 4th quater of 2007.
• Playfair & Co. relocated to Victoria and began the relationship with a brand new client and a brand new company Australia Power and Gas
• Playfair Enterprises extablishes office in Brisbane in 2007 working with Australian Power and Gas.
• Playfair & Co. awarded a rising star award at the Cobra Group's National Convention for results achieved in the first 6 months of business.
• Playfair & Co. turned over in excess of $1.25M in first year of trading.
• Playfair & Co. was the best performing marketing company for Australian Power and Gas for 48 out of 52 weeks in 2008.
• In February 2009, Playfair & Co.(Ben Lyon) was awarded best new marketing company of the year, and also received award for record profits.
• Playfair & Co. was allocated full responsibility to manage one of the Cobra Group’s clients APG.
• Assistant manager at the time, Chris Kiely, ran tests with Berkley cinema, now part of the Hoyts family in Auckland.
• Playfair Enterprises was allocated responsibility to help manage one of Appco's divisions - Fundraising direct
• Playfair Enterprises expands to New Zealand in April 2009 through Vince Edmunds and Graeme Descoteaux
• In July 2009, opened our second international office, in Wellington, New Zealand. New relationship with “Meridian” began.
• In October 2009, Firestar global was setup by newly promoted MD Chris Kiely.
• November 2009 - incorporation of Freedom North by George Eleftheriadis, after only 12 months in the company.
• February 2010 - at the national convention for newly branded “APPCO” Playfairand Co. was nominated for best performing marketing company for 2009
• Playfair Enterprises and Playfair and Co. both listed in the top 10 performing Marketing companies for Australia and New Zealand
• 3 New marketing companies open in the Calendar year of 2009.
• Anthony Van-Eyk becomes the managing director of Van-Eyk Marketing Solutions through the training of Playfair Enterprises.
• Another new client - Richmond Tigers in the AFL. Doing match day promotions for flash for cash
• September 2010 - office opened up the USA, starting the business in Manhattan, NY, with the charity WSPA the main client through our supplier company Appco.
• The UK is now active also, with us selling in “Manchester” through Steven Jagger’s hard work.
Milestones:
2008/2009 - $3,991,797.50 - Raised for non-profit organisations in Australia
2009/2010 - $4,740,359.72 - Raised for non-profit organisations in Australia
2009/2010 - $2,248,187.04 - Raised for non-profit organisations in New Zealand
Australian Power and Gas, our main client in Australia was named “BRW’s fastest starter” for 2009
Australian Power and Gas is Australia's fastest growing company 2010 as listed in BRW
Over $10,000,000.00 Raised for non-profit organisations around the world in 2 years!!