News Archive

A lot is going on in the Winsor & Newton brand team lately, with several people changes.

As we approach the end of the summer, I hope you all took the opportunity to take some rest through vacation leave.

The team at Elephant has been working hard behind the scenes to develop our online art classes platform, Elephant Academy. The website launched this week.

During this enforced lockdown period, just like everyone else, we’ve had to adjust our working practices and things that would have seemed impossible before, have now become common practice. As we start to emerge from this crisis, we’ve been looking at what we can keep from this experience and bring in to our ‘normal’ ways […]

We are delighted to announce Gareth Meredith’s appointment as Colart Corporate Communications, Learning and Events Manager. Irene Rubio, who has been solely responsible for all of our corporate communications, will move over from the digital team and report into Gareth. Together, they will focus on new and improved initiatives to ensure that all employees continue […]

I’m delighted to welcome Packaging and Artwork to the Shopper Marketing team, with Lawrence, Fatima and Fero moving across with immediate effect. Packaging is a key communication point to shoppers at the point of purchase and we need to ensure that we offer a complete experience to the shopper and this move ensures we are […]

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 […]

What is an ambassador? An ambassador is someone who drives change in the organisation, they’ll have full support from Ajita and Richard. The role of Ambassadors: An ‘activist’ network that leads, inspires and supports sustainable practice across Colart: • Notice things which need to change or could be improved • Start, sustain and/or grow experimental […]

Hi All, With the decommission of Skype for Business and rolling out Microsoft Teams as our official communication and collaboration platform, we would like to present you Colart training materials for Microsoft Teams. You can learn or refresh your knowledge about the most useful features of Microsoft Teams. It will give you confidence in using […]

Dear all In July when we shared how the mid-year reviews will be conducted, we also updated you of our plans to launch Splash Perform in time for the full year review window from 1st November to end February. We had wanted to launch the system in time for the mid-year review, but we had […]

The first 6 months of 2020 have been busy for the Digital team and I am excited to share some of the key highlights and deliverables. • We reached a total of more than 11m consumers on our Brands social media channels and have had over 1.4mwebsite visits • Our email open rate increased on […]

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 […]

Some of you may have read reports that there has been a new round of ransomware doing the rounds at present, with some very high profile companies such as Garmin being hit and taking their systems down for an undisclosed period of time. For those of you that are unfamiliar with what ransomware is, after […]

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 […]

Dear all, Research says that behaviour takes at least two months or on average 66 days to become a habit so when we think that we have been living in the world of COVID for over 4 months it is understandable that people want to know whether the new norms that have been built up […]

The Shopper Marketing Team has prepared a presentation to share with our clients and retailers. The report identifies four key shopper trends impacting the high street retailer, as consumers return to the high street after lockdown. “Engaging hearts and minds in the new world” Some of the highlights of the report are: • 48% of […]