{"id":45642,"date":"2024-10-13T22:48:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T22:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/?p=45642"},"modified":"2025-01-29T03:18:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T03:18:59","slug":"nqs-tosco-business-and-education-acquired-by-aussie-owned-company-cos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/news\/nqs-tosco-business-and-education-acquired-by-aussie-owned-company-cos","title":{"rendered":"NQ\u2019s Tosco Business and Education acquired by Aussie owned company COS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in Cairns 66 years ago, family-owned office product supplier\u00a0Tosco Business and Education expanded into Townsville in 2019, operating a warehouse at 16 Hills St, Garbutt, before its owners Stephen and Judy Gardiner decided to sell the business, as retirement beckoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The couple\u2019s decision was fortuitous for COS, the largest 100 per cent Australian-owned and operated national office product company, which aimed to expand its footprint in North Queensland after opening a warehouse at Jay St, Mount St John, in early 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given their lengthy association with the Gardiners, COS co-chief executive Belinda Lyone said it was a great result for COS to seamlessly take over the Cairns and Townsville warehouses, and retain Tosco\u2019s 30 experienced staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.townsvillebulletin.com.au\/business\/townsville-business\/nqs-tosco-business-and-education-acquired-by-aussie-owned-company-cos\/news-story\/7096483e6bafeb82ac26a3fb0714b71f?btr=d660aa8206df86f50866fcd3916a615d\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.townsvillebulletin.com.au\/business\/townsville-business\/nqs-tosco-business-and-education-acquired-by-aussie-owned-company-cos\/news-story\/7096483e6bafeb82ac26a3fb0714b71f?btr=d660aa8206df86f50866fcd3916a615d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE <\/a>to read more.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style3 like-45642 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='45642' data-nonce='267e949fe3' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Did you find this useful?' \/><span class='lc-45642 lc'>+5<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style3 unlike-45642 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='45642' data-nonce='267e949fe3' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='' \/><span class='unlc-45642 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-45642 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given their lengthy association with the Gardiners, COS co-chief executive Belinda Lyone said it was a great result for COS to seamlessly take over the Cairns and Townsville warehouses, and retain Tosco\u2019s 30 experienced staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45644,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45642\/revisions\/45644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cos.net.au\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}