North American News from The Wall

August 30, 2023 | |
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Continuing on the theme from last weeks' news article In Case You Missed it. Stories from The Wall,  this week displayed a clear North American theme ... so here we go .... stories from North America.

Debut display from Colart and edding

edding and Colart made their debut at the NY Now show last week. Thousands of buyers attended the show, which features Home, Jewelry, Accessories, Gift and Lifestyle brands. The edding booth was situated with stationery and gift brands. We sold into a variety of art stores, galleries, gifteries and stationery stores. We are excited to see the edding brand branching out to new retailers, some of which had interest in carrying other Colart products too. Thank you to Ryan Testa and Dana Sherer in the booth as well as our edding partner Olga Oggioni.

Post from: Mary Ellen Schaffner

 

Inspiring Every Artist ...

While visiting our North America business last week, I got to visit a trade show (on which Ryan and Mary-Ellen were working hard to grow our edding turnover), visited stores of many retail partners (and some possible partners to be) with Sarah, got to meet the teams in the office, witness a local town hall, tour the DC (thank you Carlos) and check out a real Paint & Sip franchise on Thursday evening. Thank you to all (including Kim and Ellie for the Liquitex merch) for the warm welcome. What do you think, should we quit our day job yet, or keep practising our ratio and colour blending techniques? 

Post by: Jasper Van der Wurff

Forging Relationships with Michaels'

A busy, but productive, week last week with Bruno over – building relationships with Michaels’ supply chain team (visiting Michaels’ Corporate Support Center and a DC)….and some new ideas to hopefully save cost and reduce complexity in DC4.

Post by Steve Chamberlain

From Recycling to Upcycling

I want to thank Tim DePack for acting in a sustainable way when preparing for the recent Michaels management meeting.  Tim had three banners with outdated header copy and instead of ordering new banners, he recycled the existing ones by cutting off the top portion of each banner and rebuilding them as slightly shorter banners.  The recycled banners were successfully used at the managers meeting. Great job Tim!

Post by Kelly Kline

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