We have received on October 6 in Le Mans site, the Cultura leadership team. Cultura is a French arts & craft chain offering as well library and music….It is our biggest retail client in Europe with 100 stores (France/Belgium) and on line Cultura.com site. We are close to yearly 4M€ sales with them, strongly selling all of our brands in all categories, and even producing some private label sku’s from le Mans and CTAM.

The aim of this day visit, was, under the request of Cultura CEO, for its main leaders to get better business understanding and inspiration from all its main partners. Colart is one of them for the above reasons (level of business, oldest partner from 1998, fin arts category captain,…).

Under Nicolas Dupuis’ great coordination, our Mass Channel Director, and involving all top leaders of Colart Le Mans/France, we organised a successful and very interactive agenda: factory tour, lecture at museum, in town group art photo, strategic cross fertilization meeting, and even….a collaborative painting expressing “how we see the future of our collaboration”

Olivier Masmonteil, who is a very famous contemporary french artist, and ambassador for Lefranc Bourgeois brand, did accompany us for a part of the day and did a very inspirational lecture on the importance of Art for all.

A great example on how Colart can really inspire every artists (and customers!) in the world 

We received thanks and compliments from Cultura top management for having fully responded to the expectations! and have a list of common initiatives for further action plan from that day.

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Many CTAM colleagues took part in an outdoor wellbeing &community hiking activity last weekend. During the process, learned about the history of Tianjin and donated more than 260000 walking steps which can be converted into cash through on line charity org. to support to the education programs for the children of mountain areas.

利用上周末时间天津柯雅很多同事参加了一场户外公益徒步活动，过程中了解了天津城市的历史还捐出了26万多步，这可以通过在线公益项目折合成现金支持山区儿童教育。

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The ambassadors of the DEI group (Diversity-Equity-Inclusion) met on Thursday afternoon to address the subject of disability in the workplace and its taboos.

With the help of scenarios, they were able to understand the difficulty of addressing this theme in business and will be involved in the actions that will be implemented in the coming weeks.

Indeed, Colart in France is making this year and the next two a priority on disability.

An agreement will be signed with AGEFIPH (an association that supports companies in recruiting and retaining people with disabilities in companies) next Thursday. This agreement provides for a large number of actions that will be deployed over 3 years. And then, as of next week, two disability referents will be appointed at Colart and will undergo training to understand their role and their missions.

Les ambassadeurs du groupe DEI (Diversité, Equité, Inclusion) se sont retrouvés jeudi après-midi pour aborder le sujet du handicap en entreprise et ses tabous.

A l’aide de mises en scène, ils ont pu comprendre la difficulté d’aborder ce thème en entreprise et seront impliqués dans les actions qui vont être mises en place dans les prochaines semaines.

En effet, Colart en France fait de cette année et des deux suivantes une priorité sur le handicap. Une convention va être signée avec l’AGEFIPH (association qui soutient les entreprises au recrutement et au maintien des personnes en situation de handicap dans les entreprises) jeudi prochain. Cette convention prévoit un grand nombre d’actions qui seront déployées sur 3 ans. Et puis, dès la semaine prochaine, deux référents handicap vont être nommés chez Colart et vont suivre une formation pour comprendre leur rôle et leurs missions.

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Just wanted to share with you given the time of year; a very nice piece of work created by @viktoria.saplaoura@colart.com, featuring a few of the amazing artists that really show us new ways of seeing. Some of which, shown here, we have been really fortunate to work with in the UK and introduce to our brands. These are some images of the artists featured from Viktoria’s video which is also housed on teams: TFACShareBestPractice/VideosBHM

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Just a random Sales Rep on his way to visit the client.

Guess what is he using to carry few goodies to cheer up the Buyer.

Sustainability – every little step matters!

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