Hello everybody,

We just completed our second 5S half-day last week, still as part of our Perform approach. The teams embarked a second time on this vast project which allows us to improve working conditions and relaunch a dynamic.Congratulations to all for playing the game and making our workshops what they are today.

Nous venons de réaliser la semaine dernière notre seconde ½ journée 5S, toujours dans le cadre de notre démarche Perform. Les équipes se sont lancées une seconde fois dans ce vaste chantier qui nous permet d’améliorer les conditions de travail et de relancer une dynamique.

Bravo à tous d’avoir joué le jeu et de faire en sorte que nos ateliers soient ce qu’ils sont aujourd’hui.

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Happy Chinese New Year / Rabbit Year to you all:)

Chinese culture flash:

What does the holiday mean?

The term “pass year”is used for the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year). The word  Chinese characters used to mean a horrible beast. To bat the beast， the Chinese hang good luck wishes on red paper on the door in the belief that the beast fears red and fire. This tradition in many ways resemble the western belief of using garlic and crosses to fight vires

What do people do?

The tradition is to have different main courses everyday from the lst day of the New Year to the 15th day of the New Year, from Jiao Zi (dumplings), noodles.spring rolls, sticky rice cakes, and Tang Yuan (stuffed rice balls). Besides culinary satisfaction, each food has a meaning as well: for instance, Jiao Zi looks like gold,implying a wealthy year ahead.

Besides eating, young people visit older family members and kids are blessed with a red pack of “lucky”money. And then,people gather and eat again leading to a lot of advertisements about fitness right after the Chinese new year holiday.

By the way, CTAM will be in Spring festival for a whole week from January 21.

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Last week I’ve celebrated 10 years working for Colart, a beautiful journey that helped me growing professionally and personally.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an architect; life took me into another way, but I always kept my interest in art and painting.

I first heard about Colart back in 2009 when I lived in London; I saw a job post and remember thinking: “my dream job: marketing&art”.

3 years later in Madrid, a friend introduced me to Pilar, who was looking for someone to support her in marketing for Colart in Iberia!

Never stop dreaming and believing 😊 thank you Colart family for these years of hard work and fun!

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