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Microsoft Teams training videos available now!

Hi All, With the decommission of Skype for Business and rolling out Microsoft Teams as our official communication and collaboration platform, we would like to present you Colart training materials for Microsoft Teams. You can learn or refresh your knowledge about the most useful features of Microsoft Teams. It will give you confidence in using […]

Splash Perform – Coming soon!

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 […]

Digital Team Highlights

The first 6 months of 2020 have been busy for the Digital team and I am excited to share some of the key highlights and deliverables. • We reached a total of more than 11m consumers on our Brands social media channels and have had over 1.4mwebsite visits • Our email open rate increased on […]

COVID-19 Group Update

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 […]

Ransomware Warning

Some of you may have read reports that there has been a new round of ransomware doing the rounds at present, with some very high profile companies such as Garmin being hit and taking their systems down for an undisclosed period of time. For those of you that are unfamiliar with what ransomware is, after […]

Town Hall Meeting – 24 July

On Friday 24th July we had our bi-monthly Town Hall Meeting. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO, and Jonathan Spight, our CFO. 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 there is a […]

COVID-19 Group Update

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 […]

COVID-19 Shopper Trends Report

The Shopper Marketing Team has prepared a presentation to share with our clients and retailers. The report identifies four key shopper trends impacting the high street retailer, as consumers return to the high street after lockdown. “Engaging hearts and minds in the new world” Some of the highlights of the report are: • 48% of […]

Town Hall Meeting – 10 July

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 […]

MID-YEAR REVIEW

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 […]

Microsoft Teams Rollout – Video

Hi All, As recently communicated, we are in progress of moving to Microsoft Teams, which will be our official communication and collaboration platform.  We are currently in the process of recording training material for you. That will give you a chance to learn the most useful features of Microsoft Teams and give you confidence in […]

New Winsor & Newton website

“Our site is our showroom. Our window to the world. It reflects the ethos of the brand.” We are happy to announce that the Winsor & Newton websites are live. Our ambition is to deliver a rich brand experience to our consumers, with detailed product pages, articles, techniques & educational content to drive awareness and […]

“Day in Life” Programme

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: –  […]

COVID-19 Group Update

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 […]

COVID-19 TOWN HALL MEETING – WATCH THE VIDEO

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 […]

BLUE SKY PROGRAM

What is this and what does this mean for the business? Colart is always seeking to offer the best to its customers and that is why a new program has been kicked off by the GLT: Service Level Structural Improvement. Increasing the service level leads to higher customer satisfaction and loyalty, stronger brands and automatically […]