Sharing a campaign highlight from our North American influencer campaign supporting Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolours. Our artist partner Kristin Van Leuven utilized the hero colors to create this watercolor beach sketch reel earning over 4 Million views and 24,000+ engagements.Check it out, like/comment here! 🙂  Kristin Van Leuven | Watercolor artist and instructor | Quick watercolor beach sketch to show you that your watercolor practice can be quick and messy with very little detail and still be… | Instagram  

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I enjoyed following the art induction tutorial over the weekend. Its a great way to get to use different Colart products. @Jan Lennon 

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Exciting Liquitex Bio Based launch in Cass – Week 1 Summary:

• Units installed and in position in 11 Stores
• Bio Based range available in 13 stores and Online
• Cass E-mail blast introducing Liquitex Bio
• Live on Cass Website home page
• Message on Liquitex UK site, highlighting Cass Exclusive launch
• Educational and shoppable Blog post on Cass Website
• Tailored edit of video content for display screens in-store
• Instagram post – Live today!
• Bio Based Mural created at Islington Flagship store by Artist Tom Guilmard, stay tuned for the full reveal next week ….

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Another 2 of our Kidderminster team have used some of their community hours to visit the Forest Dog Rescue to provide  some exercise and love for  the dogs at the shelter, which is now  at capacity and unable to take in anymore dogs while homes are found for the existing residents.  You can see from the photos below just how much the dogs enjoy their walks and love.

Not only do the dogs benefit but the sense of wellbeing, both physical and mental is of great personal strength, the enthusiasm and pleasure when teams come back from taking part is amazing.   Important too, to connect with the local community.  Sometimes it may feel difficult to justify leaving the workplace because we’re too busy or have deadlines to meet but at Kidderminster,  to make it more manageable we  break the allowance into hours, so say for litter picking groups can pop out locally wearing their Colart hi vis for an hour or 2 while the dog walking is a 2 to 3 hour session, including travel.   The company impact report states that the target for 2025 is to increase to 5,000 community days and at Kidderminster we hope to see all staff on site using their hours to help achieve the company goal.   We’d love to  know how other sites encourage the uptake of community hours.

(Photos: Liza and Jo walking Sprout and Star who come as a par and Molly and Bow)

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Quite recently, with the help of one smart guy, I realised that I still pay too little attention to the positive aspects of our work. One of the conclusions of our conversation was that giving praise is still vastly undervalued.

I would therefore like to use the opportunity of the end of the first half of this year to start changing that.

Well, in the small part of the world that my small team and I are responsible for, we have had a very positive first half of 2024.

Sales performance is slightly better than the assumptions made for FC1, around 4.5%. The gross margin has also reached targeted level. If we add to this the results of the 2 challenging Swedish CFGs, it is still good. Which was not so obvious at the beginning of the year.

Not everything is going according to plan – of course.

2 big retailers: Empik and Clas Ohlson are struggling with a significant decline in footfall and thus sales. However, we are working on implementing plans to minimise the risk of sales loss.

The whole team: Dominik, Dora, Irek & Vlad (with my modest contribution) are working to find new opportunities & to stay ahead of the competition.

I would also very much like to thank everyone in the Sabine’s team. Without you, our operation would not have a chance of success.

Support from the Marketing department – invaluable – Mathilde – you rock.

The great commitment of the team Le Mans cannot be underestimated either. June, our orders were processed at lightning speed, which is also why we were able to make up some of the loses we faced in previous months.

So, simply put – many thanks to everyone involved!

And congratulations to us on achieving our H1 plan.

We still have even more challenging 2nd half of the year ahead of us.

I am optimistic.

Regards.

Below is a photo of the current ‘window’ arrangement at Paper Concept Varso, Warsaw, Poland.

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