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Marking a key milestone, the launch of the B2B portal is yet another digital innovation accelerated to implementation to ensure we stay ahead of the game in the ‘new normal’.

On Friday 30th October, we held the fortnightly Town Hall Meeting, hosted by CEO Dennis van Schie. Guest included Chief Financial Officer, Jonathan Spight. Dennis started the session, talking about the virtual Lindengruppen management conference they had and the importance of embracing technology, embracing leadership and embracing sustainability. They will share more information with us […]

Dear all, With the second wave of COVID-19 cases well and truly upon us, tighter restrictions are becoming more evident in many countries.  This is particularly evident for our colleagues in France with a new national lockdown coming into force at the weekend. We are of course all in this together and the same principles […]

This announcement explains the different sustainable initiatives and activations that have been taken in Lowestoft not only in 2018 – 2019 but also how that has been developed and where are now. Governance, ethics and compliance In 2018 Colart Lowestoft recorded a non-disclosure agreement with top suppliers and put in place an up to date […]

On Friday 16th October, we held the fortnightly Town Hall Meeting, hosted by CEO Dennis van Schie.  Guests included Chief Commercial Officer, Gail Pasquier and South Europe Commercial Director Thierry Collot. Dennis started the session, talking about our purpose “inspiring every artist of the world” and what we aim “to become the most sustainable consumer-driven […]

Dear all, It would appear that the World Health Organisation’s warning that the number of COVID-19 cases will double if countries do not uniformly work to suppress the virus’ spread is starting to become a reality as a second wave firmly establishes itself across Europe and the US. How will the COVID-19 pandemic reshape our […]

Sales of Snazaroo product have been severely affected by Covid 19. The inability for our consumers to hold children’s parties, run school and summer fetes and the new restrictions on social gatherings which will affect the forthcoming Halloween and holiday season worsen what has already been a poor year for sales. We have lessened the […]

Over the last few weeks, we have been speaking about how remote working is to become part of the normal way of life at Colart with a blend of both office and remote working continuing in the future.  Whilst COVID has triggered this change for Colart and many other companies, we have found that it […]

On Friday 2nd October, we held the fortnightly Town Hall Meeting, hosted by CEO Dennis van Schie.  Guests included Head of Project Management, Claudio Toledo and Business Development Director Jasper Van der Wurff, presenting the Think Tank. Dennis started the session giving an update about the company situation and reminding the importance of following COVID19 […]

Dear all, With the World Health Organisation warning that the number of COVID-19 cases can double if countries do not uniformly work to suppress the virus’ spread it’s important for everyone in Colart to work together to ensure that we too have a uniform approach. A uniform approach at Colart… As a reminder, this is: […]

On Friday 14th September, we held the fortnightly Town Hall Meeting, hosted by CEO Dennis van Schie.  Guests included VP & General Manager (North America) Steve Chamberlain, Regional Marketing Director (North America) Sarah Clark and DC Manager (North America) Carlos Trejo. Dennis started the session, talking about wellbeing and the importance not only of your […]

Dear all, I know in the last few updates we have been saying that COVID-19 is still very much with us yet to read the news about the significant increases in cases around the world, is still disappointing…..but this is life as we know it and we need to adapt. The adaptation comes in many […]

In this town hall Dennis asks how you would describe Colart to family and friends? Gail states we 'smashed budget' for 3 months. Kevin presents insights into consumer behaviour that has led to Amazon being our #1 global customer.

On Friday 14th August we had our fortnightly Town Hall Meeting. On the panel Jane Beeston, our CPO, Stuart Yemm, Shopper Marketing Manager and Piet van Nassau, Commercial Director Central Europe. Jane used the time to talk about the insights from the Futurescope Project and had an interesting talk with Stuart and Piet about the […]

Dear all, In last week’s update, we gave answers to key questions people around the group are asking – one of which related to travel.  Our experience this week, with countries around the world initiating immediate quarantine periods and further lockdowns reinforces the continued need for caution in our approach particularly with respect to business […]

On Friday 24th July we had our bi-monthly Town Hall Meeting. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO, and Jonathan Spight, our CFO. The Town Hall Meeting was hosted on Microsoft Teams – Live event, and we had almost 200 people joining us. Thank you all for attending! Remember that there is a […]