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On Wednesday 10th July, we had a Town Hall Meeting live from Head Office. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO, and the rest of the GLT. Watch the recording of the Town Hall Meeting: https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/ucWZZOW6-gHKvwpyy.mp4 What was discussed? Cliquez ici pour lire le compte-rendu en français Dennis started the meeting by mentioning […]

What is SXSW ? South by Southwest (abbreviated as SXSW) is an series of huge overlapping festivals taking place in Austin, Texas, covering the future of tech, politics, music, film and much more. It began in 1987 and has continued to grow in both scope and size every year. Key Trends Our agency partner TMW […]

As part of a review of the asset-base of the business, and prompted by a discussion with Erik Urnes (our owner’s husband), we identified a few months ago that Colart owned a potentially valuable painting by an artist called FN Souza. In the early 1960s Souza was an up-and-coming yet penniless Indian artist living in […]

Who is Amazon? Founded twenty-five years ago in 1994, Amazon has grown into one of the largest ecommerce marketplaces and cloud computing platforms in the world.  In 2018 their total revenue was 233 billion US dollars which ranks far ahead of companies such as Google (136 billion US dollars) and Facebook (55 billion US dollars). […]

What is Vanilla Project and what does this mean for the business? As you may be aware, a cross-functional team within Colart is working on Project Vanilla. The project is all about simplification of how we financially and operationally plan the flow of products around the Colart Group. We currently have a process which has […]

What do eCRM and personalisation mean? We are very excited in the Digital team to introduce eCRM and personalisation for the first time to Colart, live on the new Liquitex website. Let us explain what this means… Consumers are no longer basing their purchase decision on price or product. Instead it’s based on the consumer […]

What’s the bank and how can I register? The Bank is Colart’s asset management system where we store pictures, videos, documents, logos etc, in a way that is easily maintained and accessible to both our international offices and retailers. If you don’t already have an account, you can register by clicking here. Tags We’re working […]

Please find here the Colart’s sustainability report 2018-19 in English: Click here to access on the Bank. Chinese and French versions will be available soon. The report is a glimpse at Colart’s activities of the past 12 months. All Lindéngruppen companies are required to compile a report. Our ambition is for Sustainability at Colart to […]

On Wednesday 5th June, we had a Town Hall Meeting live from Head Office. On the panel were Toby Russell, our Chief Technology Officer, Louise Booth, Global Digital Director, Sam Webster, Principal Developer and Josh Hart, Digital Strategist Email and eCRM. Watch the recording of the Town Hall Meeting here: https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/YgEg42dc-7vW1MLVK.mp4 Presentation Click here to […]

With our strategic focus on our Fine Art ranges of Winsor & Newton, Liquitex and Lefranc Bourgeois which represent the core of our business, we have reviewed the role that Reeves plays within the overall Colart portfolio.

In November last year, the new Liquitex merchandising system was installed in over 120 stores across North America. Our retail team decided to enter the POPAI retail awards. The entry was submitted against our retail values to Attract, Engage and Convert Shoppers, the project objectives, modularity and sales uplift results to date.

On Tuesday 30th April, we had a Town Hall Meeting, live from Head Office. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our Chief Executive Officer and Jonathan Spight, Chief Financial Officer.

Colart have been the exclusive global distributor of Arches fine art ranges since 2017, and prior to that the non-exclusive distributor during 2015 and 2016. During that time, we have used the strength of the distribution of our fine art brands, in particular Winsor & Newton, across multiple geographies and channels to develop the Arches business.

Today, we celebrate World Art Day. The date was chosen as it is Leonardo Da Vinci’s date of birth and is celebrated across the world. As an art-oriented company, we do celebrate art every day through our brands and our network, whether it’s TFAC, our retailers or our consumers!

Last week, team Benelux & Nordics kicked off its Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour campaign with a shop staff training at our Norwegian distributor’s office and a full week take-over of CODA Museum in the Netherlands.

During the kick-off week of the Benelux Winsor & Newton Water Colour Campaign, The Fine Art Collective BNL delivered a seminar at museum CODA, one of our local partners.