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Winners – 2019 Multicultural Awards

Tambo Teddies won the 2019 Queensland Multicultural Awards for business! The Business category of the awards is to ‘recognise the outstanding achievements of a business in creating employment or other opportunities that value and promote diversity and inclusion.’ Tambo Teddies has a long history as the market leader in handcrafted sheepskin teddy bears in

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Teddies Original Oz Gear

Teddies Original Oz Gear

Tambo Teddies iconic Stockmen bears dressed in their original Oz gear have been around as nearly as long as Tambo Teddies itself. Not long after the bears had hit the market it was suggested that the teddy bears needed dressing, and so Mr & Mrs Stockman and their mate Little Aussie Ringer were born.

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Tambo Teddies Multicultural regional sewing hub

Woohoo…..we’re in the finals of the Queensland Multicultural Awards

We’re so excited, we are finalists in the business category of the Queensland Multicultural Awards! We have been selected for the work we have been doing in partnership with Multicultural Queensland Australia providing jobs for refugees at our regional sewing hub in Toowoomba. ‘Supply’ of bears has been the constricting factor in growth of

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tambo teddy bear shop

It’s a Teddy Bear Shop!

‘It’s a Teddy Bear Shop!’ visitors to Tambo exclaim. Travellers are a bit bemused by a teddy bear shop in the middle of a tiny Outback Queensland town. And seriously, what is the go with these teddy bears? Tambo Teddies has been operating for twenty-six years, five years under our ownership. The business was started

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Tambo teddy bear

DNA Tambo

We were excited to be a part of the Australian Wool Networks’ launch of their DNA Tambo program at the Tambo Stock Show last Saturday (April 27th). Featuring wool grown locally at Lansdowne Station, AWN presented their DNA program whereby consumers can trace the origins of their garments and learn the back story of

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