- April, 2002:
- The first kiosks were sold through a black and white website called AffordableKiosks.com
- July, 2002:
- The company hires its first employee and upgrades its sole-proprietorsihp status to an S Corporation.
The company is now known as Affordable Kiosks, Inc.
- September, 2002:
- The company moves to a small office with 600 square feet of space.
- December, 2002:
- The first distributor signs up to sell products overseas.
- June, 2003:
- The company now has 5 distributors and 8 models of kiosks.
- January, 2004:
- The company moves to a 2000 square foot office and has 5 employees.
- April, 2004:
- SalesForce is implemented company-wide to manage its client relationships more efficiently.
- August, 2004:
- SlabbSoft is launched which is a sister company and produces custom software for kiosk projects.
- January, 2005:
- The company moves to a brand new 9000 square foot
facility and has 95 employees plus dozens more in manufacturing, engineering, and assembly.
- June, 2005:
- The decision is made to change the company's name to Slabb with the tagline "The Public Touch Company".
February 2006:Slabb Europe in Amsterdam is opened by Slabb for all European sales.
- March, 2006:
- 20,000 foot US integration facility opened, 248 Employees Globally.
- January, 2007:
- Over 30 resellers, worldwide, have signed up with Public Computing.
- January, 2007:
- Slabb Taipei launched with over 6,000 square meters or 55,000 square feet) of manufacturing, integration, QA/QC and logistics space.
- March, 2007:
- Public Computing B.V. did their first bulk order of 100 units.
- April, 2007:
- Public Computing B.V. takes over the assets of Slabb and expands the business with a new sales and marketing model
- May, 2007:
- Over 50 distributors worldwide signed up with Public Computing B.V. .
- June, 2007:
- Public Computing B.V. the company moves to a brand new 25000 square foot facility and
has 85 new employees in manufacturing engineering and assembly.
- July, 2007:
- Public Computing B.V. launch the new banking and bill payment system onto the market place.
- August, 2007:
- Public Computing B.V. appoints new sales manager responsible for worldwide airport sales.
- September, 2007:
- Public Computing B.V. appoints a leading software specialist to develop a number of software applications for
payment and ticketing kiosk solutions.
- October, 2007:
- Over 75 distributors have signed up worldwide with Public Computing B.V..
- November, 2007:
- Public Computing B.V. is now the leading manufacture of kiosk hardware
for all types of applications Our client list now has representations from
more than 22 countries and 6 of the 7 continents.
- December, 2007:
- Public Computing B.V. launches new product line X series worldwide,which includes 7 new models of kiosk.
- January, 2008:
- Public Computing B.V. launches ticketing system.
- February, 2008:
- Public Computing B.V. launches new retail and self service kiosks.
- March, 2008:
- Public Computing B.V. launches new product line Q series worldwide, which includes 4 new models.
- April, 2008:
- Public Computing B.V. launches the new Public Computing software
department in Bombay with many leading software specialist.
- June, 2008:
- Public Computing B.V. launches its Bank and Billing payment kiosk with a rollout at ING Bank.
- September, 2008:
- Public Computing B.V. franchise launched in the Australian market.
- March, 2009:
- Public Computing B.V. launched the sports concept into the UK market.
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