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Introducing Snazaroo’s New Custom Palette

Snazaroo launches its first ever online exclusive NPD targeting the Young Adult audience in time for Halloween! Your Palette. Your Rules. Make all your creative dreams come true with this brand new and unique palette from Snazaroo that puts imagination first. The innovative Custom Palette will be exclusively available on the Snazaroo website (currently limited […]

Skype for Business is being decommissioned

Dear All, As recently communicated, we are moving from Skype for Business to Microsoft Team which is our official communication and collaboration platform. Skype for Business will be switched off on Monday. We hope you had a chance to check out our Microsoft Teams training videos and get familiar with the tool. You can find […]

Splash Performance and Development Update

Dear all As the system development is almost complete, ready for Monday 2nd November launch, we wanted to share a further update together with the other activities which will be happening related to the appraisal process. What is Splash Perform? As a reminder, Splash Perform is the new tool in Splash that will be the […]

Town Hall meeting – watch the video

In this town hall Dennis asks how you would describe Colart to family and friends? Gail states we 'smashed budget' for 3 months. Kevin presents insights into consumer behaviour that has led to Amazon being our #1 global customer.

COVID-19. Group Update.

The essence of Jane's report this week focuses very much on protecting our wellbeing, realising that Covid-19 is still very much with us. The 'new norm' does take adjustment, especially considering factors such as remote working and mental health. Jane's article discusses how Colart supports this. Also, a further call out to complete the employee survey. Read why your contribution is so significant.

Covid 19. Group Update

As we approach the end of the summer, I hope you all took the opportunity to take some rest through vacation leave.

What do people want post COVID?

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 […]

Comms Team Update

We are delighted to announce Gareth Meredith’s appointment as Colart Corporate Communications, Learning and Events Manager. Irene Rubio, who has been solely responsible for all of our corporate communications, will move over from the digital team and report into Gareth. Together, they will focus on new and improved initiatives to ensure that all employees continue […]

Shopper Marketing Changes

I’m delighted to welcome Packaging and Artwork to the Shopper Marketing team, with Lawrence, Fatima and Fero moving across with immediate effect. Packaging is a key communication point to shoppers at the point of purchase and we need to ensure that we offer a complete experience to the shopper and this move ensures we are […]

Town Hall Meeting – watch the video

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 […]

Sustainability Ambassadors Update

What is an ambassador? An ambassador is someone who drives change in the organisation, they’ll have full support from Ajita and Richard. The role of Ambassadors: An ‘activist’ network that leads, inspires and supports sustainable practice across Colart: • Notice things which need to change or could be improved • Start, sustain and/or grow experimental […]