To celebrate the recent coronation in the UK, over the last 2 weeks the staff at the London hub have created bunting that’s now displayed in the office. The Wellbeing Team in London set out some blank bunting and a variety of Winsor & Newton and Conte a Paris graphic media, and many people contributed – the idea was to create a collection of bunting that we can display in the office which shows the pieces of British culture that matter to us!

Thank you to everyone who participated, as you can see below we have many talented artists among us 🙂

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Growth, Growth, Growth : it’s a sweet sound when you have a big opening store (1.000m2) in a major commercial mall of Paris/ Hope to help the budget

ROUGIER & PLE coming in Velizy. Spécial thanks to @elise.gérault, @antoine.bertinotti and @david.legal for their help. Nice cool.

And next news ….. still & soon 🙂

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On Thursday, May 4, 16 members of the management team took part in a workshop “changing the way we look at disability”.

This training was facilitated by the AMIPI foundation. This foundation allows people with disabilities to progress through manual labor and find their place in a company.

On the program for the day : discovery of the world of disability around tests, games and exchanges. The highlight of the day was the visit of the production workshop. This visit helped to change everyone’s view. They realized that it is possible to welcome disabled people into our firm. The feedback at the end of the day is excellent.

Next step : 7 worshops are planned for the teams.

Jeudi 4 mai, 16 membres de l’encadrement ont participé à une session de formation « changer le regard sur le handicap ».

Cette formation a été animée par la fondation AMIPI. Cette fondation permet à des personnes en situation de handicap de progresser par le travail manuel et de trouver leur place en entreprise.

Au programme de la journée : découverte du monde du handicap autour de tests, de jeux et d’échanges. Le clou de la journée fut la visite de l’atelier de production. Cette visite a permis de faire évoluer le regard de chacun et de prendre conscience de la possibilité d’accueillir au sein de notre entreprise des personnes handicapées. Les retours en fin de journée sont excellents.

Prochaine étape : 7 sessions de formations sont prévues pour les équipes.

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By Appointment to HM The King…

It’s not often you find yourself writing ‘shall we ask the King what he thinks’ in a project email, but that’s exactly what happened when we were invited by the Sandringham Estate to curate and produce an exclusive, bespoke set of Winsor & Newton watercolours which could be used to re-create HM’s iconic painting of Sandringham.

With personal touches from the King – such as his desire for a wooden box and his express wish that the brushes be synthetic rather than of animal origin – we also worked with the Sandringham design team to bring our two great brands together in a visually impactful and sensitive way. Only 250 of the limited-edition sets have been produced, and thanks to nothing short of a Herculean effort from the team at Kidderminster, these were delivered to Sandringham yesterday so they can be on sale in time for the Coronation tomorrow.

Sandringham are exhibiting a selection of the King’s watercolour paintings throughout 2023, and with over 1,000,000 visitors expected, we are exploring ways to support some live events throughout the summer season.

Winsor & Newton have been a royal warrant holder dating back to the reign of Queen Victoria (also an enthusiastic watercolourist) when the Series 7 brush was created for her in 1866. We still hold a royal warrant today which was granted by the then Prince Charles, and we fully expect this to be re-issued with his new title of King Charles III.

A HUGE shout out and thank you to everyone involved in the project from Stuart Yemm and me, especially to: Shane Williams, Caroline Williams, Amandine Pouillet, Kelly Jarvis, Julie Exon, Steph Nebbia, Fatima Kadic, Amelia MacDonald

Wishing all our UK colleagues a very joyful Coronation weekend, we’d love to see how you mark the occasion!

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