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Liquitex Sticker Challenge – Vote for your favourite

17-Apr-2020|Brands, Colart||
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This year, Liquitex is celebrating 65 years of innovation and serving artists. To commemorate the anniversary, the Liquitex team launched a competition challenging artists to create an original sticker design using Liquitex products and incorporating the number 65. The Liquitex team received lots of great submissions for their #Liquitex65challenge and now it is your turn […]

COVID-19 Town Hall Meeting – Watch the video

09-Apr-2020|Business, Colart||
Views: 55
On Wednesday 8th April we had the second Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. This time the Town Hall Meeting was hosted on Microsoft Teams – Live event, and we had more than 230 people joining us. Thank you all for attending! If you couldn’t attend the live event you can watch the Town […]

Stay creative with Lefranc Bourgeois

09-Apr-2020|Brands, Colart||
Views: 41
Lefranc Bourgeois has revised its Brand Communication Plan for the second quarter (April, May, June) to adapt the different initiatives to the current situation of confinement. #StayCreative In this period where creativity is more important than ever, and Lefranc Bourgeois is offering a new program to their Passionate Painters community staying true to the Brands’s […]

Artist Kelly Anna’s Flashe-y Mural for our Le Mans site & Lefranc Bourgeois

09-Apr-2020|Brands, Colart||
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Particularly in these uncertain times, we all need some colour and art! In the week before French confinement, British Artist Kelly Anna was in Le Mans to paint a giant mural with our Lefranc Bourgeois Flashe paint. You’ll surely remember Kelly from her Colart Loved By film and LB Flashe campagne.  As part of Lefranc […]

Commercial structure in Northern Europe – Consultations completed

03-Apr-2020|Business, Colart, Function Update||
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In March we communicated plans to realise synergies across the Northern European commercial activities by creating a single commercial business unit from the four existing commercial business units (covering employees in seven countries). This notice is to update you on the progress of those plans. Consultations completed We have now completed the consultations with all […]

COVID-19 Group Update

03-Apr-2020|Colart, People||
Views: 88
Dear all, What a week for us all – thank goodness it’s Friday as they say!!!  But before the week ends, we want to try to update you on the situation in Colart in our constantly evolving world of knowns and unknowns as we are bombarded by a hugely fluid situation. So, keeping with the […]

Dennis’ Blog: Bi-weekly

03-Apr-2020|CEO Blog, Colart||
Views: 123
Hello everybody, Here is my bi-weekly CEO blog which in crisis times is an even more important way to communicate with you all and share my view of the situation and other relevant topics that are going on in our colourful company! First, some feedback from the board meeting we had March 31st. Using the […]

Technology Continuity Management

03-Apr-2020|Colart||
Views: 44
Word from CTO We strongly believe that business continuity forms part of the overall management strategy of the company. It is vital that we create and maintain good working practices within a safe environment for all our employees and clients. With the understanding and participation of every member of staff, we can ensure that our […]

Microsoft Teams – Rollout

31-Mar-2020|Colart||
Views: 78
As recently communicated, we are in progress of moving to Microsoft Teams, which will be our official communication and collaboration platform. Considering the current situation, we encourage you to get familiar with our new tool as soon as possible, if you haven’t had the chance already. It can improve the way of working from home. […]

COVID-19 Group Update

30-Mar-2020|Colart, People||
Views: 82
Dear all, As the situation continues to evolve so is our understanding of the decisions being taken by Governments across the world.  This is a very fluid situation and we are doing our best to balance all priorities: first and foremost to protect you, our people by following advice and guidance from Governments in the […]

Navigating COVID-19 – New site

27-Mar-2020|Colart, People||
Views: 53
Knowing that Covid-19 presents us all with challenges never experienced before, we have taken the opportunity to launch a “go to” site to try to help you navigate your way through our new way of living and working. In this site, which can be found on the Intranet, you will be able to find a […]

COVID-19 Town Hall Meeting

27-Mar-2020|Business, CEO Message, Colart, People||
Views: 40
  On Wednesday 25th March we had a Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. This time the Town Hall Meeting was hosted on Microsoft Teams, and we had over 210 people joining us. It was the first time that we hosted a live stream with so many people attending, and we hope to see […]

e-Learning at Colart

27-Mar-2020|Colart||
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Self-directed e-Learning – Any Time, Any Place, Any Pace launching March 27th At Colart we really believe in the importance of helping people develop themselves personally and professionally.  The foundation for this development is the Colart Academy which has four pillars for development: leadership, skill, community and service and identifies the different routes that exist […]

COVID-19 UK Company Update

24-Mar-2020|Business, Colart, People||
Views: 114
Dear all, With the announcement made by the UK government last night to enforce restrictions on non-critical movement, it has become clear that our ability to continue operations in the UK is no longer possible. Clearly this decision aligns the UK with the actions already taken by France, Spain and Italy – similar to the […]

The Bank Newsletter – March 2020

24-Mar-2020|Colart||
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Colart Employee If you need to be given access to The Bank, please go to https://thebank.colart.com/colartregister Please fill out all of your details in the form and then send. If you are going to need to be trained on how to perform Bank uploads, please email thebanksupport@colart.com and a training session will be arranged. This […]

Covid-19 – New Q&A site on our Intranet

19-Mar-2020|Colart, People||
Views: 93
In Dennis’s note yesterday he talked about the importance of focus, transparency and frequency in our communications during what is clearly a very challenging time for our people, our business and our communities. Taking these points on board we are enhancing our communication plan to ensure we are keeping you up to date with information […]
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