News Archive

Dear all, The decisions across the globe to carefully loosen lockdowns in each country is progressing and it’s almost possible to hear the collective sigh from parents being relieved of home tutoring responsibility as schools steadily open in most places.  I wonder whether homeschooling has been the most stressful impact of the crisis – for […]

On Wednesday 27th May we had the Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO and Jane Beeston, our CPO. 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 […]

Dear all, As communicated at the beginning of April, the new Colart Northern Europe organization is in place. In effect, I have the pleasure of leading a fully centralized organisation of 31 professionals responsible for owning and delivering our commercial objectives across 20 Northern European countries, with an obvious focus on Germany, Holland, Poland and […]

Dear all, As countries across the globe begin the careful process of returning to work, school and international travel, we are seeing signs in the news about a significant impact on businesses and our economies in general.   Whilst Colart cannot take anything for granted, following on from the financials communicated last week, this update focuses […]

After the successful residency project at Macro, the contemporary art museum in Rome, the collaboration between Colart Italia and InsideArt continues this year. InsideArt is a media communication group specializing in contemporary culture and art. Special initiatives will be activated along the year to celebrate Lefranc Bourgeois 300 years anniversary, including articulate storytelling about the […]

Dear all, As the world continues to find its way through the COVID challenge, many organisations are full on into the question of, “what next?”…Colart is of course no different and this question is being asked in relation to what we do and how we do it!  This update focuses on how what the return […]

Last year we successfully increased the functionality of Splash by the introduction of Splash Recruit, so enhancing the automation and tracking of talent acquisition in Colart.  One of the 2020 objectives for the global HR team was to take the increase of Splash functionality further with the inclusion of performance reviews on the system – […]

Have you heard about “On my Wall Wednesday”? Join Duane Romanell on Wednesdays and share art on The Wall, let’s promote art that we own, collect, like… “On My Wall Wednesday” is a fun project that Duane wanted to launch on The Wall, to help promote artwork that we own, collect, etc. that is hanging […]

With the aim of addressing during this time of uncertainty, especially during COVID-19 period, with more strength and visibility, the particularly important challenges of the year 2020 and even more for the years to come, I am here to inform you of several decisions regarding Southern Europe and Colart France structure. First, I would like […]

On Wednesday 13th May we had the Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO, and Toby Russell, our CTO. The Town Hall Meeting was hosted on Microsoft Teams – Live event, and we had more than 200 people joining us. Thank you all for attending! If […]

Dear all, As Governments in countries around the world are starting to vary their approach to lock down and the commencement of business, as usual, Colart remains consistent in its approach delay home working people to return to the workplace and focus on manufacturing and logistics as the priority within clearly specified protocols.  Servicing our […]

With the completion of the Northern European regional restructuring and the refinement of the Operations Finance structure following the recent departure of Mark Brown, I have taken the opportunity to review our Global Finance reporting structure. This review has concluded that a fully functional reporting model is the optimal structure to enable alignment within the […]

Bulk Editing Assets Note – this process is available to Content Manager level users. If you have a Colart User account and would like to request that your account is changed to Content manager, please contact thebanksupport@colart.com  If you’re dealing with multiple assets at a time, you can use the bulk editing options to avoid […]

Dear all, As we move into May, it is good to know that our people continue to be well and safe with our four colleagues in the US who became poorly progressing well.  This gives us confidence that the protocols put in place and decisions made have served us well. As we mentioned in the […]

*See the innovation program here  It’s the global process of capturing ideas into a box on the intranet! Aiming to captivate employee’s ideas that might benefit other business units. Creating synergy alongside the corporate innovation program that make ideas flourish in our DNA and get the support needed Ps: All the local process of innovation […]

As Liquitex celebrates its 65th anniversary, the brand is proud to be a part of the journeys of a wildly creative community of artists. It is a privilege to be able to not only support these artists with materials and resources, but also to share their stories and artwork with the world. The stories of […]