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The Think Tank

What’s the Think Tank? The idea of an idea box has been around Colart for a long time, but thanks to the new Intranet we are now able to launch it! Under the ‘My Colart’ menu, you can now find a new tab: “The Think Tank” Click here to access How to submit an idea? […]

Festival of Comics in Łódź

By Jakub Kopek On the last weekend of September, Colart Poland partnered with one of our retailers and Wacom Poland for the 30th International Festival of Comics in Lodz, the biggest comics event in Poland and Central-Eastern Europe, which is visited by over 20 000 comic enthusiasts ever year. What we found particularly interesting was […]

Colart wins supplier award

Whilst attending the annual summit in Dallas in late September, we were delighted to win one of only 9 supplier awards – our award was in the Art and Framing category. In particular, Michaels referenced several aspects of our strong partnership: Exclusive product development through the W&N Studio Collection, private label product development and our […]

Dennis’ blog – October 2019

Cliquez ici pour lire ce blog en Français.  Hi everybody, Time to write to you again and give an update on the status of our business. First of all, I am very proud to share that we continue to be on track with the financial turnaround that we have set ourselves to achieve this year. […]

Colart Sales up on Amazon Mexico & Brazil

Thanks to the work from the International Sales Team, Liquitex and Winsor & Newton are now present on the Amazon website in Mexico and in Brazil! In the past few months, more and more items and assorted colours were uploaded to the platform, giving our South American consumers a large choice of products, should they […]

Customer Survey Results 2019

At Colart, we value openness and feedback and see them as opportunities for improvement. That’s why, between the end of April and mid-June, we send our annual global customer survey to our customers. After a thorough clean-up of addresses since last year, our data-base for this survey was reduced by around 800 – meaning less […]

Liquitex Basics Campaign

Liquitex launched their digital campaign for the Basics range on 20th August, which will last until November. Basics Acrylic, “the everyday acrylic” has just seen its range increase from 48 to 72 colours! The image below shows them all and is one of the key visuals of this new campaign:   This campaign has two […]

Technology and Digital Teams Quarterly Update

Every quarter, the Technology and Digital Teams, who are under Toby Russell’s lead, will present their recent activities and achievements. We hope you enjoy these regular updates and if you have any question don’t hesitate to comment on the Intranet or to send an email out to news@colart.com. This update covers the June to August […]

MRC Reports (re)introduction

New Portal on the Intranet M-Power (MRC) is a application development tool used to extract data from M3. We’ve had this tool available for many years but we would like to re-introduce it to the Business. There is a new Business Analytics portal on the Intranet (under Business) for all available MRC Reports. There are […]

Code of Conduct

Dear all, We are pleased to communicate the update of the Colart Code of Conduct: Click here to download a pdf of the Code of Conduct. Click here to open the ‘Policies’ category of the Toolbox. The purpose of this Code is to help you understand the way in which our values guide how we […]

‘My Solidarity leave® in Madagascar’

CLIQUEZ ICI POUR LIRE LE TÉMOIGNAGE DE CAROLE BRIQUET EN FRANÇAIS This August, Carole Briquet, HR Manager Southern Europe, took two weeks of her annual leave to go to Madagascar on Solidarity Leave®. She is sharing with us her experience and some pictures: “On Friday the 16th of August, having finished work for the day, I […]

Winsor & Newton relaunches the Promarker ranges

On 3rd September the Promarker range was re-launched. Winsor & Newton re-introduced the graphic marker range under the Promarker brand with 4 new variants: Promarker, Promarker Brush, Promarker Neon, and Promarker Metallic. This came with an entire range re-design. Individual marker labels were changed to improve colour stand out, colour accuracy and differentiation. The packaging […]

Organisational Changes Announcement

Click here to download a pdf of this announcement in English. Cliquez ici pour télécharger un pdf de cette annonce en Français. Click here to download a pdf of this announcement in Chinese and in English   Mark Barratt will be leaving Colart Mark Barratt has decided to move on and seek new opportunities outside […]

Lefranc Bourgeois on French Radio

On Friday 6th of September, Thierry Collot, Southern Europe Commercial Director, was invited on French Radio Europe 1 to talk about Lefranc Bourgeois, on the occasion of the Back to School period. Europe 1 is one of the most popular radio stations in France, and the show, entitled “La France bouge” (France is moving) focusses […]

Employee Survey Results: Second Communication

Dear all, Please find below a link to the second communication regarding the employee survey results: Click here to access the presentation. This document gives a top-level breakdown of results by country and honours our commitment to share these more in-depth details by end of summer. As explained in the presentation, our next step (immersion) […]

Social Engineering Fraud Awareness

Dear all, In the modern business environment companies are increasingly exposed to ever more imaginative methods fraud, whilst Finance colleagues need to be on front end of the fight against this risk, all Colart employees play a part in mitigation and we all need to remain vigilant in combatting this potential threat. Fraud arising from […]