COS Distribution GmbH
Am Campus 21
Objekt 70
A-2355 Wiener Neudorf Austria Phone : +43 (0)2236 61550 600 Fax : +43 (0)2236 61550 150 Website :http://www.cosag.at E-mail : vertrieb@cosag.at
Team
General manager : Mr Gunnar Dörr Sales director : Mr Christian Gretschi Marketing director : Mr Andrea Sturm Purchase director : Mr Gunnar Dörr
Information
Creation year : 1998 Firmenbuchnummer : 174696g LG Wiener Neustadt VAT identification number : ATU45521305 Annual turnover 2006 : 30,00 M€ 2005 : 30,00 M€ 2004 : 32,00 M€ 2003 : 37,11 M€ 2002 : 67,80 M€ Indirect turnover : 100% Broadliner Main brands : Acer, AMD, Canon, Hyundai, Microsoft Clients : Assemblers, associations, central purchasing companies, corporate resellers, dealers, department stores, e-commerce, hypermarkets, IT consulting and service providers, mail-order resellers, multispecialists, outlets, semi-distributors, specialized resellers, specialized retailers, superstores, systems integrators, VAR Employees : 11 people
Services
Minimum delivery time
National : 24 hour(s) International : NC
News
David Grant appointed to Senior Vice President Europe, Westcon Group
2010-08-24
Networking, convergence, security and mobility VAD Westcon has been promoted David Grant to senior vice president, Europe. He will continue reporting directly to Westcon Group President and CEO, Dean Douglas. In his new role, Grant will have primary responsibility for the continued growth Westcon Group's European business, including its European strategy, human resources and legal organizations, supporting the expansion strategy in the Nordics, the Baltics and Southern Europe of the company. David Grant has been with Westcon Convergence for three years and was previously CEO of European distributor Crane before its acquisition by Westcon Group in 2007. Prior to his role at Crane, Grant spent 14 years in a variety of senior level positions with Canon UK Ltd.
Barthe enters IT market
2010-03-25 Cebit 2010/France : created in 1927, Barthe is an historical vendor on foreign language learning products. It was among the newcomers on Cebit, with a booth on Planet Reseller. The company was presenting there its newborn product, Duplicator. This product ought to be the cheaper USB stick autonomous duplicator. It exists in two models, of 21 and 35 ports which are sold €699 and €899 excl. VAT. Duplicator has been created following a recurrent demand from teachers – the usual Barthe's market – which were looking for a simple solution to duplicate content for their students. In France, it fits perfectly well in current IT equipment State program for Digital School. The company is testing IT market through its presence on Cebit. According to Stéphanie Kabela, export sales manager of Barthe, Duplicator has met a huge interest from Cebit visitors : « two of them have even signed firm orders », she says. Many contacts have been made over whole Europe, with resellers wishing to sell the product, or to use it for their own use or for service providing. Everywhere, distribution network remains to be built.
COS gets bankrupt
2009-08-19 Germany : after having just been purchased by a Russian investor, broadliner COS Distribution has unexpectedly filled bankruptcy because it ran out of cash. The company is not closing, but is being reorganized in order to be able to pursue its activities or be reacquired, all the more as its resellers remains its loyal supporters, even though they have to prepay their orders. Former COS owner, Arques, informed that the new Russian owner was informed of COS's cash needs and that it was considering legal action against the new owner (source : ChannelPartner Deutschland and IT-Business Deutschland).
Arques gets rid of Tiscon
2009-08-10 Germany : Actebis owner Arques Industries, which had purchased 60% of Tiscon group in 2006, has decided to sell its shares to Russian KCK Association and other investors. Tiscon group includes distributors COS Distribution (in Austria and Germany) and component and peripheral specialist Chikara, as well as PC vendor Topedo and etailers Avitos and eLogistics. Following this acquisition, Tiscon CEO Michael Krings has decided to leave the company. It is yet unknown who will replace him in his day-to-day duties for COS Distribution and Chikara (source : IT-Business Deutschland).
COS invests on video security
2009-07-13
Broadliner COS Distribution has secured a distribution partnership with Visaplex in order to distribute its two vendors, video security specialists Nuuo and Zavio, in Germany as well as in Austria and Switzerland.
Cebit 2010/France : created in 1927, Barthe is an historical vendor on foreign language learning products. It was among the newcomers on Cebit, with a booth on Planet Reseller. The company was presenting there its newborn product, Duplicator. This product ought to be the cheaper USB stick autonomous duplicator. It exists in two models, of 21 and 35 ports which are sold €699 and €899 excl. VAT. Duplicator has been created following a recurrent demand from teachers – the usual Barthe's market – which were looking for a simple solution to duplicate content for their students. In France, it fits perfectly well in current IT equipment State program for Digital School. The company is testing IT market through its presence on Cebit. According to Stéphanie Kabela, export sales manager of Barthe, Duplicator has met a huge interest from Cebit visitors : « two of them have even signed firm orders », she says. Many contacts have been made over whole Europe, with resellers wishing to sell the product, or to use it for their own use or for service providing. Everywhere, distribution network remains to be built.
