News Archive

During this enforced lockdown period, just like everyone else, we’ve had to adjust our working practices and things that would have seemed impossible before, have now become common practice. As we start to emerge from this crisis, we’ve been looking at what we can keep from this experience and bring in to our ‘normal’ ways […]

On Friday 14th August we had our fortnightly Town Hall Meeting. On the panel Jane Beeston, our CPO, Stuart Yemm, Shopper Marketing Manager and Piet van Nassau, Commercial Director Central Europe. Jane used the time to talk about the insights from the Futurescope Project and had an interesting talk with Stuart and Piet about the […]

Dear all In July when we shared how the mid-year reviews will be conducted, we also updated you of our plans to launch Splash Perform in time for the full year review window from 1st November to end February. We had wanted to launch the system in time for the mid-year review, but we had […]

Dear all, In last week’s update, we gave answers to key questions people around the group are asking – one of which related to travel.  Our experience this week, with countries around the world initiating immediate quarantine periods and further lockdowns reinforces the continued need for caution in our approach particularly with respect to business […]

Dear all, Research says that behaviour takes at least two months or on average 66 days to become a habit so when we think that we have been living in the world of COVID for over 4 months it is understandable that people want to know whether the new norms that have been built up […]

On Friday 10th July we had the Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO, and Dominique Murzeau, our General Manager Manufacturing Business Unit. The Town Hall Meeting was hosted on Microsoft Teams – Live event, and we had almost 200 people joining us. Thank you all […]

Coming Mid July! *See the announcement in French here Dear all Last year we successfully introduced Splash Recruit, so enhancing the automation and tracking of how we bring new people into the Colart family.  One of the objectives for 2020 is to increase Splash functionality further by supporting the dialogues of continuous improvement process through […]

We are pleased to announce that our “Day in Life” programme is coming back for 2020!  This will be the 4th year that we implement this programme in France and the 2nd year for the rest of the Colart Group. What is all about? As a reminder, the Programme provides a great opportunity to: –  […]

Dear all, In last week’s update, we communicated that as a result of an interim operator testing positive in the Le Mans factory, we quarantined 14 people at home who were working in the same area.  I’m pleased to confirm that none of our colleagues exhibited symptoms and having all tested negative, will be back […]

Today 26th June we had the Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO and Bruno Lebourdais, our Group SIOP Director. 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 […]

Dear all, At the end of every update, we have repeated the key message about the importance of following safety protocols for the protection of everyone in Colart and those outside Colart that we are linked to.  For the purposes of this update we are going to start with this theme and focus on it […]

Today 12th June we had the Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO and Richard Llewellyn, our Sustainability Officer. 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, Thank you for your participation in the head office survey and the honest responses. After analysing the results, a couple of key points have been highlighted: • The results indicate that 47% of you can get into the office without using public transport. • While 70% of you have experienced some form of […]

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 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 […]