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New Southern Europe Structure

With the aim of addressing during this time of uncertainty, especially during COVID-19 period, with more strength and visibility, the particularly important challenges of the year 2020 and even more for the years to come, I am here to inform you of several decisions regarding Southern Europe and Colart France structure. First, I would like […]

COVID-19 Town Hall Meeting – Watch the video

On Wednesday 13th May we had the Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO, and Toby Russell, our CTO. The Town Hall Meeting was hosted on Microsoft Teams – Live event, and we had more than 200 people joining us. Thank you all for attending! If […]

Covid-19 group update

Dear all, As Governments in countries around the world are starting to vary their approach to lock down and the commencement of business, as usual, Colart remains consistent in its approach delay home working people to return to the workplace and focus on manufacturing and logistics as the priority within clearly specified protocols.  Servicing our […]

Changes in Global Finance structure

With the completion of the Northern European regional restructuring and the refinement of the Operations Finance structure following the recent departure of Mark Brown, I have taken the opportunity to review our Global Finance reporting structure. This review has concluded that a fully functional reporting model is the optimal structure to enable alignment within the […]

The Bank Newsletter

Bulk Editing Assets Note – this process is available to Content Manager level users. If you have a Colart User account and would like to request that your account is changed to Content manager, please contact thebanksupport@colart.com  If you’re dealing with multiple assets at a time, you can use the bulk editing options to avoid […]

COVID-19 Group Update

Dear all, As we move into May, it is good to know that our people continue to be well and safe with our four colleagues in the US who became poorly progressing well.  This gives us confidence that the protocols put in place and decisions made have served us well. As we mentioned in the […]

What is The Think Tank?

*See the innovation program here  It’s the global process of capturing ideas into a box on the intranet! Aiming to captivate employee’s ideas that might benefit other business units. Creating synergy alongside the corporate innovation program that make ideas flourish in our DNA and get the support needed Ps: All the local process of innovation […]

Inside the artist’s imagination with Liquitex

As Liquitex celebrates its 65th anniversary, the brand is proud to be a part of the journeys of a wildly creative community of artists. It is a privilege to be able to not only support these artists with materials and resources, but also to share their stories and artwork with the world. The stories of […]

COVID-19 Group Update

Dear all, At this week’s Town hall, Dennis highlighted business continuity – to serve our customers, as one of our top priorities, with the protection of our people coming first and foremost and cash protection, second.  It is therefore great to know that Le Mans has had a second great week in its phased return […]

Buying Art online – with Duane Romanell

Buying art online can be daunting as there are an infinite number of places to search for art and in the current climate many artists have been prompted to set up their own shops or offer work directly to their social media followers. This of course, is not great news for galleries (with resulting closures […]

COVID-19 Town Hall Meeting – Watch the video

On Tuesday 28th April we had the third Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO and Gail Pasquier, our CCO. The Town Hall Meeting was hosted on Microsoft Teams – Live event, and we had almost 200 people joining us. Thank you all for attending! We […]

#Staycreative with Lefranc Bourgeois – visit Enzo Certa’s studio

Following the last announcement, Lefranc Bourgeois is running a special program for its community of passionate painters. Enzo Certa and his colourful world Enzo Certa is a French artist, best known for his large-scale, figurative oil paintings depicting detailed, imagined scenes inspired by history and the Old Masters. Born in Bordeaux in 1989, Enzo is […]

What’s happening at Elephant West…?

…even though we’re temporarily closed? Winsor & Newton Online Art Classes – UK Only Always wanted to sign up for the Winsor & Newton art classes but didn’t have the time or don’t live in London? Here’s your chance to join in. We’ve moved our classes online and we’re offering all Colart staff, family and […]

COVID-19 Group Update – Survey results

Dear all, The results are now in and I’m pleased to be able to share with you the results of the mini survey that has been live for the last couple of weeks. Just to remind you we asked four simple questions 1. What impact do you think COVID-19 has had on our company’s culture […]

COVID-19 latest update

Dear all, We hope that everyone had a peaceful Easter Weekend – one that we won’t forget but hopefully you found time to rest and recharge your energy. We are all facing challenges during this crazy time whether we are working in the workplace or from home or indeed furloughed, so it’s important that we […]

Dennis’ Blog – COVID-19 update

Hello everybody, Despite the crisis that we are still in the middle of, I do hope you all had at least some joyful and relaxing time during the Easter break. Not knowing how long the crisis will be and what potential consequences it might have for the business creates, of course, anxiety and more questions […]