INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL TEAM – Q1 2019 UPDATE
The International Commercial Team has been busy since the beginning of the year, implementing different projects on all continents…
ELEPHANT LABS – OUR ARTIST STUDIOS IN LONDON
We have two large artists’ studios in our London office which are full all year round with artists on residencies. Very popular with artists, residencies give them an opportunity to apply to work somewhere different from their everyday studio, usually with a view to gaining a new cultural or technical insight.
TFAC – LATEST EVENTS AND UPDATES
WORKSHOPS ON WATER COLOUR WITH BARBARA NICHOLS (CURRENTLY SHOWING AT THE JPM GALLERY)
at Central St Martins and Glasgow School of Art
THE NEW LIQUITEX WEBSITE IS LIVE!
On 27th February 2019 the new Liquitex Brand website went live! This is a milestone in Colart’s Digital transformation journey and a key building block in Liquitex’ s strategy to reach their vision to be the first choice in acrylic.
NAMTA 2019 – ART MATERIALS WORLD
The 2019 NAMTA fair took place in San Antonio, Texas, at the end of February.
JIRA SERVICE DESK
Closure of TopDesk on 1st April: our new Tech Support System, Jira Service Desk has now been in place for over two months, and has seen great results so far
COLART’S TECHNICAL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
COLART'S TECHNICAL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE - MEMBERS OF THE TEAM
• Debbie Bryan, Technical Centre of Excellence advisor
• Mark Cann, Technical Excellence Manager
TFAC UK: BLUE ROOM PROJECT
In early 2019, Colart launched an innovation and insights collaboration with Central Saint Martins, part of the University of the Arts London. The collaboration is made of different experiences, programmes and projects, one of them being the Blue Room Project.
WELLBEING CAMPAIGN 2019 – ROUND UP COMMUNICATION
The Wellbeing ambassadors kickstarted 2019 with a month-long campaign to share with you great videos from some of our Business Units, photos of events from last year, and some reminders on the importance of Wellbeing at Colart - we hope you enjoy them!
Finance Team: New team structure
After a few announcements relating to UK, Northern Europe & International Finance over the last few months, we would like to share the updated structure of the team.
Charity project
Liquitex has once again participated in this new edition of Art Madrid, an important Spanish contemporary art fair, as collaborator for a very special project: #SomosKanva.
The Studio Building
In many people’s minds Head Office and the Studio Building are the same thing.
Elephant West Update
“Art magazine Elephant has a fittingly über-cool new art space, Elephant West, in White City. Enter… to be become instantly more hip” declared the Evening Standard. It’s “an arts hub that champions emerging talent. Watch this space!” proclaimed Time Out in an Instagram video that garnered 59,000 views. Elephant West drew an enthusiastic welcome from […]
Southern Europe Marketing
Dear all, Here below you will find the new Southern Europe Marketing team structure. REASONS FOR THE NEW STRUCTURE The team has been restructured to take into account the following 4 motives: – The local integration of 3 brands: • Lefranc Bourgeois • Conté à Paris • Arches – In agreement with the organisation design […]
Shopper Marketing
Please take a few minutes to have a look at some of the 2018 Shopper and Colart wide initiatives: https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/eY4A3EmD-DWSTVHCZ.mp4 This video is broken up into each brand as an asset you can utilise both internally and externally. They are available on the Bank: • Liquitex merchandising for US • W&N Oil & Acrylic and […]
START OF THE YEAR TOWN HALL MEETING
On Wednesday 23rd January, 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. During the meeting, Dennis and Jonathan looked back at 2018 and the many achievements we saw, including the satisfaction from our customers regarding the […]