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On Friday 10th July we had the Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO, and Dominique Murzeau, our General Manager Manufacturing Business Unit. The Town Hall Meeting was hosted on Microsoft Teams – Live event, and we had almost 200 people joining us. Thank you all […]

Coming Mid July! *See the announcement in French here Dear all Last year we successfully introduced Splash Recruit, so enhancing the automation and tracking of how we bring new people into the Colart family.  One of the objectives for 2020 is to increase Splash functionality further by supporting the dialogues of continuous improvement process through […]

Hi All, As recently communicated, we are in progress of moving to Microsoft Teams, which will be our official communication and collaboration platform.  We are currently in the process of recording training material for you. That will give you a chance to learn the most useful features of Microsoft Teams and give you confidence in […]

“Our site is our showroom. Our window to the world. It reflects the ethos of the brand.” We are happy to announce that the Winsor & Newton websites are live. Our ambition is to deliver a rich brand experience to our consumers, with detailed product pages, articles, techniques & educational content to drive awareness and […]

We are pleased to announce that our “Day in Life” programme is coming back for 2020!  This will be the 4th year that we implement this programme in France and the 2nd year for the rest of the Colart Group. What is all about? As a reminder, the Programme provides a great opportunity to: –  […]

Dear all, In last week’s update, we communicated that as a result of an interim operator testing positive in the Le Mans factory, we quarantined 14 people at home who were working in the same area.  I’m pleased to confirm that none of our colleagues exhibited symptoms and having all tested negative, will be back […]

Today 26th June we had the Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO and Bruno Lebourdais, our Group SIOP Director. 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 […]

What is this and what does this mean for the business? Colart is always seeking to offer the best to its customers and that is why a new program has been kicked off by the GLT: Service Level Structural Improvement. Increasing the service level leads to higher customer satisfaction and loyalty, stronger brands and automatically […]

Dear all, At the end of every update, we have repeated the key message about the importance of following safety protocols for the protection of everyone in Colart and those outside Colart that we are linked to.  For the purposes of this update we are going to start with this theme and focus on it […]

  Dear All, Due to recent phone migration, some of you might realise that the phone number that has been assigned to you before, does no longer work. We have contacted all our employees to check if they need and want to keep their phone number. Please be aware that one of our goals was […]

Dear all, Following the ongoing “Black Lives Matter movement”, as a company, we have reflected how we can make a positive change in our industry. While “Flesh Tint” is a historical colour name, this is not a part of our history that we will be carrying forward. We have decided with immediate effect to stop […]

We are very pleased to announce the launch of our new Winsor & Newton Website coming soon and we would like to give you an update regarding the new functionalities, the timeplan, the situation on eCommerce and the communication planned so that all departments have the same level of information: 1. Functionalities We are very […]

Today 12th June we had the Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO and Richard Llewellyn, our Sustainability Officer. 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 […]

*See here the announcement in French, Chinese and Spanish.    Dear all, Last week following the recent tragic death of George Floyd we saw a huge outcry from the public voicing their support against racial discrimination and social injustice.  Much of this response was on social media under the banner #Blacklivesmatters, a movement founded in […]

Dear All, Thank you for your participation in the head office survey and the honest responses. After analysing the results, a couple of key points have been highlighted: • The results indicate that 47% of you can get into the office without using public transport. • While 70% of you have experienced some form of […]

As a business, we publish each year a sustainability report which highlights the economic, environmental and social impacts caused by our everyday activities. Colart’s 2019-2020 report is now ready please see attached or click here. Please find the time to have a look through and read it, we have many contributors across the business, and […]