News Archive

Dear all, In September, we advised you about the updated Code of Conduct (click here to view announcement). In this announcement we mentioned that we would be rolling the Code out to each of you to ensure everyone confirms their understanding of the Code contents. The Code has now been translated into all our operating […]

Dear all, Further to yesterday’s announcements regarding the Operations structure we are also pleased to announce that a new General Manager has been recruited for CTAM. Hunter Zhang will join us from 25 November 2019 reporting directly to Dominique Murzeau in his new role as EurAsia Manufacturing General Manager. Hunter is from Tianjin and has […]

Last June 2019, we explained on Colart News what was the Vanilla Project (here link). As a reminder, Project Vanilla eliminates CIHL from the flow of products and in so doing creates a direct financial and operational flow between the manufacturing entities (e.g. Colart Le Mans) and the distribution/sales entities (e.g. Colart Italy). As such […]

We are excited to announce the activation of our “Day in Life Programme” in the UK, Europe, China & US! The programme was originally launched in France and has been a tremendous success with over 30 requests in 2018 As a reminder, what are the objectives of “Day in Life Programme”? This programme provides a […]

Colart are doing an experiential Pop-up this December in Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross.  In partnership with Coal Drops Yard (CDY), the House of Illustration Winter Fair (HOI), and the Fine Art Collective (TFAC)   What is Coal Drops Yard? Coal Drops Yard is a retail development situated behind the train station of Saint Pancras in […]

The Think Tank, launched last month, is a great platform for anyone to bring new ideas and suggestions to the table. One such idea from Lucy Franklin (Minehead) was to allow our people to buy our products at a discount on our branded websites. Why a code on our websites cannot be put in place […]

Our partner in Ecuador, Sbandra, has recently shared with us a beautiful story from year 2000. Sbandra will soon be celebrating their anniversary and this story will be featuring in one of the national Ecuadorian newspapers. Click here … to read the chronicle of the fabulous journey of indigenous artist Ramón Piaguaje. “In 1998 (…) […]

Colart Le Mans/France Selected by “Culture of the Future” The Pays de la Loire region has selected Colart and 4 other territorial companies to participate in its new collaborative project, entitled “Culture au futur” (Culture of the Future). The operation is unprecedented and experiment-based, bringing together artists, industries, and research laboratories who will work together […]

As part of the recent communication regarding the IT Business Continuity Management initiative it is important that everybody understands the reason why we are doing this and why it is so important for us to communicate to the business any major outages that may occur. As an outage will likely impact services and business processes, […]

Whilst attending the annual summit in Dallas in late September, we were delighted to win one of only 9 supplier awards – our award was in the Art and Framing category. In particular, Michaels referenced several aspects of our strong partnership: Exclusive product development through the W&N Studio Collection, private label product development and our […]

Thanks to the work from the International Sales Team, Liquitex and Winsor & Newton are now present on the Amazon website in Mexico and in Brazil! In the past few months, more and more items and assorted colours were uploaded to the platform, giving our South American consumers a large choice of products, should they […]

At Colart, we value openness and feedback and see them as opportunities for improvement. That’s why, between the end of April and mid-June, we send our annual global customer survey to our customers. After a thorough clean-up of addresses since last year, our data-base for this survey was reduced by around 800 – meaning less […]

In June we sent out the 2019 employee survey and as promised we would like to share with you the top line results. We have prepared this summary infographic and a more comprehensive presentation to help you understand these results: Click here to read more about the global overview results. By the end of the […]

(By Laura Triptree) Production of the film At the end of 2017/start of 2018, Charlotte and Stephanie Nebbia worked with Genesius Pictures, the Production Company who were filming Mrs Lowry &  Son with Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave. As Lowry solely used Winsor & Newton products, it was an obvious fit to loan and showcase […]

Have a look at this 'Did you know' infographic about markers - a nice update on our products!

Logging in Colart websites and services Annoyed with using many different credentials to log into company services and websites? We appreciate the feedback that we received from many of you and the issue has been investigated by our Technology team. We are glad to inform you that the process of logging into these services will be […]