Known then as John Hood Electronic Services, we were founded in the family garage of our director’s home, as a general computer repair service.

We rebranded to Coffs Coast Computers, moved to our first official office in Mildura Street, Coffs Harbour, and concentrated more on servicing consumers and small businesses.

We transitioned from break-fix to Managed Services, ceasing consumer work to focus SMBs.

We acquired Coffs Harbour company Biztech, and on-boarded forty new clients & three staff.

We rebranded to C3 Group, to suit our expanding business, and change in focus to more than just computers.

We were awarded Kaseya’s Australasian Managed Services Provider (MSP) of the Year.

We built out our Private Cloud in a tier 4 Data Centre and started working with larger sized organisations.

We attained Microsoft Gold, StorageCraft Gold, and WatchGuard Gold Partnership status.

We were awarded Kaseya’s Australasian Innovation Partner of the Year award.

We launched our Business Telephony product (Enterprise SIP with fully featured Cloud Hosted PBX).

We gained Gold Partnership status with 3CX and Elite Partner status with StorageCraft.

We were awarded Kaseya’s ‘Executive Choice for MSP of the Year’ award.

We acquired Port Macquarie company Baker IT, and on-boarded a dozen new clients & two staff, opening a second office on the Mid Nort Coast of NSW.

We launched our Mobile Telephony product (Telstra 4G) and C3 Marketplace for client self-procurement.

We were awarded ConnectWise’s ConnectIT Asia-Pacific Techie Award ‘The Community Award’, for our contributions to the IT community

We achieved Lenovo Data Centre Business Group (DCG) Gold Partner Status

We were nominated as finalists for two Lenovo awards: ‘MSP of the Year’ & ‘Reseller of the Year’.

We achieved 25 Years in Business ! (from one man in his garage to 30+ Staff with two offices in Eastern Australia).

We were awarded WatchGuard’s ANZ Partner Excellence Award for ‘Marketing Program of the Year’ (2019).

We achieved Lenovo PC & Smart Devices Business Group (PCSG) Gold Partner Status.

We were a CRN Impact Awards finalist for our security hardening project for Australian iconic brand Akubra Hats.

We were awarded WatchGuard’s NSW Partner of the Year (2021)

We acquired Brisbane based company BMC Computers, and on-boarded a dozen new clients & two staff, extending our on-site presence in South-East Queensland.

We achieved Acronis Platinum Partner Status, showing our commitment to sales/technical training and vendor performance.

We partner with clients throughout all of Australia assisting with outsourced Managed ICT services, Cyber Security services, Private & Public Cloud services, Cabling & Wireless infrastructure, Internet & Data Connectivity, Business Telephony and Mobile services.