Our UK Amazon Brand Store has just been updated for Halloween using brand’s fantastic new assets, I just wanted to say a big thank you to Francheska for the toolkit, Ola, Ivo, Victoria, Ian and Marc Fleckenstein for all their help and guidance to enable me to update the store. 

This is the first time I have worked on Amazon and it’s a steep learning curve which I am at the early stages of, but it has been a pleasure to work on. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Snazaroo/page/321AAFBB-B01A-451D-9234-E22FA20982F4?ref_=ast_bln 

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I am happy to announce the following retailer digital activations for Snazaroo in the lead up to the Halloween period.

WHS

WHS Brand page has been live for a couple of weeks now including Halloween Banner and fantastic inspirational video showing both young adults and children’s painted faces. DHI (digital Hero Images) are also slowly transitioning on the website to better represent the brand and help drive sales).

We will have a dedicated Halloween banner on the homepage from 18th to 31st October and will be featured in a number of Halloween themed e mails shortly to help drive traffic to the brand page.

Also good news in that online sales are up 9% YOY already which is way above the category average of -50% in what we all know is a challenging year.

Francheska amazing Halloween Toolkit has been well received by customers, so much so that WHS are looking to create a number of Social posts using the assets where are normally they insist on bespoke content.

Hobbycraft

Hobbycraft’s brand page went live over a week ago and Hobbycraft have also agreed to start updating the webisite with DHI images in the coming days/weeks.

With Francheska joining the UK Trade Marketing Team this month she has already had a successful meeting with the Hobbycraft digital team and is now working up bespoke content for Halloween on the back of it. I’m sure she will be happy to post more detail as and when this is finalised.

We have seen some very positive sales from Snaz in the last 4 weeks in Hobbycraft, mostly driven by the new planogram + 58% vs last year and also +9% on like for like sales, long may it continue…

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Well, I did it! Completed it all, never got off the bike and pedaled all the way. Up mountains, into driving headwinds, soaked to the core and scorched by the sun. What an amazing journey. Enjoyable in a strange way, challenging throughout, completely emotionally and physically exhausting.

980 miles and over 55,000 feet of elevation climbed across the 9 days. Sleeping in a tent, with as little as 2 hours sleep some nights. Freezing temperatures, with 4 am starts to pack, get kit ready, fed and on the bike for a 6 am push off. It certainly wasn’t for the feint hearted and something I will never ever forget.

Some moments stick out to me more than others and many people on the ride I will remember for every. – My bike navigation system telling me that my next turning would be in 34 miles as I slogged up Glenshee to the ski centre in driving headwinds (over 30mph!). And the decent from Glenshee having to pedal down a hill and only reaching 4mph! – Being so cold and wet only 30 miles in to the final day that my hands shook so much that I spilt my coffee all over me.- How beautiful this Island actually is! Such a joy to travel and see it. – Queuing at 5am for 30 mins to go to the toilet in 0 degrees temperatures- The enthusiasm and motivation received from the crew on the event, such wonderful people.- From my now good friends, to the few that had disabilities that completed the ride who I am in awe of.- The power of team work. Working together on the ride to ‘get through’ the day, through encouragement and a ‘tow’.- Tired giggles, as you talk to fellow riders about how ‘battered and bruised’ we all feel. Joking that we are so tired facial recognition no longer works on the phone!- The many others that were there for the charities that supported them during their darkest times, who knew how to dig deep and fight against the odds.- The roller coaster of my emotions that matched the weather. One moment dark, cold and stormy. To bright, happy and content.

A huge huge thank you to everyone that has supported me on this journey. Especially my loving family, to afford me the time to train and to disappear for nearly 2 weeks for a bike ride! My wider family for their messages of support and encouragement. My friends and colleagues for similar. I am so completely overwhelmed and gobsmacked by the support and donations.

If I haven’t thanked you in personal I apologies, it has been manic. Some donations are anonymous, so I don’t know who they are from. But my sincere thanks to you all for this. I have raised over £3550 so far, with more in giftaid. There is still time to sponsor me, so please follow the link if you would like to.

http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Martyn-RAB

Overall the riders on the event have raised over £1m (as of 18th Sept) and over £350k for MacMillan Cancer Support. AMAZING!

Thank you all again for your support. Questions is… What’s next? Any ideas?  Or a Colart team building event one year?

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Hello everyone!

I\’m happy to announce that the Colart Chinese homesite is live!

Thanks to the hard work of many people in the Colart China teams and IT team, we shipped this website today.

Special thanks to Jim Yang and Hunter Zhang for the help and coordination they have provided in their teams and our awesome development and infrastructure team who made sure all this could be possible.

If you would like to visit the website please go to. http://www.colart.com.cn

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Hi everyone, 

Please meet one of our newest TFAC artists, Carol Schwartz, from my recent interview with her.

https://colart365.sharepoint.com/:v:/r/sites/TFACShareBestPractice/Shared%20Documents/General/North%20American%20TFAC%20demo%20assets/video1914044251.mp4?csf=1&web=1&e=Ex5tu9

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