Last week, ably assisted by Guy Peeke-Vout, I did a shop re-fit for my customer Lunns, who’s shop is in Ringwood, Hampshire. With budgets being tight, it’s more important then ever that we re-use whatever we can. To that end, Guy collected a number of global merchandising units from another customer of ours (Pullingers), who had recently removed their concession from a C&H Fabric shop that was closing. Often in the past a third party has been used to collect redundant units, at significant cost to Colart, but by using our company cars to do this, it dramatically reduces the costs of reusing merchandising. With Colart pushing to be more environmentally friendly and sustainable this was a very good way of ensuring that as much merchandising as possible doesn’t go to waste. From the photos, you can see what a difference it’s made to how W&N is presented in store.

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Connecting with other people in a hybrid working environment is crucial for both personal and professional growth, as it helps to build relationships, enhance communication, and foster collaboration. In today’s world, where remote work is becoming increasingly common, it’s more important than ever to stay connected with colleagues to maintain a sense of community and company culture. Maintaining a strong company culture is critical for the success of any organisation, and connecting with other people is a key element of this.

On this very topic, we had a great face to face/online meeting at the hub yesterday to discuss remote working. It was a really nice to connect with so many of my hub colleagues in person. Special thanks to Gareth for capturing the moment. 

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From yesterday’s livestream with Winsor & Newton Artists’ Oil Colours. 

The skin tones are mostly Cadmium Free Yellow Pale, Underpainting White and the New Transparent Orange and Ruby Madder Alizarin, while the hair and beard are mostly comprised of the new Smalt with Warm Brown Pink and Ultramarine Pink.  Fun colours that work well for portraiture. 

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ISO9001 and ISO14001 certifications renewed for the Le Mans site.After 4 days of audit, no non-compliance was noted by the auditor.She also highlighted positive points about our practices, whether in terms of Quality or Environment.The few points for improvement identified will be subject to the necessary actions.

This is the result of everyone’s commitment to Quality and Environment approaches.Thank you all.

Les certifications ISO9001 et ISO14001 renouvelées pour le site du Mans.Après 4 jours d’audit, aucune non-conformité n’a été relevée par l’auditrice.Elle a de plus mis en avant des points positifs sur nos pratiques, que ce soit en matière de Qualité ou d’Environnement.Les quelques points d’amélioration relevés feront l’objet des actions nécessaires.

Ceci est le résultat de l’engagement de tous dans les démarches Qualité et Environnement.Merci à tous.

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The new LB e-commerce sites were launched successfully on the 14th February: lefrancbourgeois.com

This fantastic achievement was delivered on time and to scope. The team behind this project worked very hard over many months to make this happen.

We actively started work on January 5th 2022 and delivered the sites (ROW and FR) to the brand by the end of June 2022. We received a go-ahead from the brand and commercial teams to launch in early 2023. Collectively we decided the 14th of February was appropriate to both our schedules and ambitions. 

I couldn’t be prouder of the results we achieved in this timeframe. This was not the only project the team was working on, and LB Ecom demanded time and focus. Well done and thank you to everyone involved. There were many helping hands. My special thanks to my core team Delphine Vaucois, Nicky Shaw, Eduardo Harris, Giuliano Riosa, Rebecca Smith, and Marie Vincent who were there advising and helping me scope the project back in 2021.

Thank you and more comms will come from the brand team soon.

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