What’s the Think Tank? The idea of an idea box has been around Colart for a long time, but thanks to the new Intranet we are now able to launch it! Under the ‘My Colart’ menu, you can now find a new tab: “The Think Tank” Click here to access How to submit an idea? […]
Liquitex launched their digital campaign for the Basics range on 20th August, which will last until November. Basics Acrylic, “the everyday acrylic” has just seen its range increase from 48 to 72 colours! The image below shows them all and is one of the key visuals of this new campaign: This campaign has two […]
Every quarter, the Technology and Digital Teams, who are under Toby Russell’s lead, will present their recent activities and achievements. We hope you enjoy these regular updates and if you have any question don’t hesitate to comment on the Intranet or to send an email out to news@colart.com. This update covers the June to August […]
New Portal on the Intranet M-Power (MRC) is a application development tool used to extract data from M3. We’ve had this tool available for many years but we would like to re-introduce it to the Business. There is a new Business Analytics portal on the Intranet (under Business) for all available MRC Reports. There are […]
Dear all, In the modern business environment companies are increasingly exposed to ever more imaginative methods fraud, whilst Finance colleagues need to be on front end of the fight against this risk, all Colart employees play a part in mitigation and we all need to remain vigilant in combatting this potential threat. Fraud arising from […]
Dear all, After one year of reorganisation, the Apps Team is almost complete and I would like to share with you this new team and the roles of its members. The Apps Team is covering all the M3 sphere and we call that ‘the M3 Bubble’. Click here to see the presentation. I hope this […]
We strongly believe that business continuity forms part of the overall management strategy of the company. It’s vital that we create and maintain good working practices within a safe environment for all our employees and clients. With the understanding and participation of every member of staff, we can ensure that our Business Continuity strategy is an […]
Contributing to the common effort: The Technology Team In alignment with the company’s strategy to achieve the financial turnaround this year, the Technology team has put a lot of efforts in to deliver the expected results and still be a global provider of Technology for the company and allowing it to fulfil its growth, vision […]
Dear all, The Shopper Marketing Team is happy to share with you the Insights and Trends report for Ink. Click here to access. Please take time to look and feedback with any comments or questions.
Dear all, As we now head into July I wanted to give you an update on sales performance for the month of June and YTD, but more importantly the outlook for the coming months. North America June was a tough month for many reasons and sales did not end where we had planned for them […]
Dear all, The Social team has worked closely with brands directors to create this document to provide overall guidance on how Colart should define and work with influencers. Click here to download the Colart 2019 Influencer Toolkit for Fine Art brands. You’ll find a breakdown of the set up for Local vs Global influencer selection, […]
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). […]
Dear all, I know that a number of people are asking about our YTD sales performance and why current sales are so adverse to FC1, where at the end of May Net Sales were down £3.6m and we have got off to a slow invoice start in June. Circa £1.9m of the shortfall at the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Please take a few minutes to have a look at some of the 2018 Shopper and Colart wide initiatives: https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/BcGOD1vb-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 […]
