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Sales Update: June, YTD and Outlook

04-Jul-2019|Function Update||
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Dear all, As we now head into July I wanted to give you an update on sales performance for the month of June and YTD, but more importantly the outlook for the coming months. North America June was a tough month for many reasons and sales did not end where we had planned for them […]

TFAC Artist Simon Willems @ Elephant West

03-Jul-2019|Art Community||
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Simon Willems will be presenting his PHD at Elephant West. Simon is one of our TFAC artists for both UK and international. He also featured in the third elephant magazine and will be installing his exhibition at the end of June. The show will have an private view this Friday 5th July from 6pm onwards. […]

Diversity Pay Report

02-Jul-2019|People||
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Dear all, For our culture to feel like a family, we recognise the importance of creating a working environment that is inclusive and respectful such that we become a company where people want to stay and grow.  We recognise that this commitment must be irrespective of gender. For this reason, we communicated our intention to […]

Influencer Toolkit for Fine Art Brands

01-Jul-2019|Function Update||
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Dear all, The Social team has worked closely with brands directors to create this document to provide overall guidance on how Colart should define and work with influencers. Click here to download the Colart 2019 Influencer Toolkit for Fine Art brands. You’ll find a breakdown of the set up for Local vs Global influencer selection, […]

Dennis’ Blog – June 2019

28-Jun-2019|CEO Blog||
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Hello all, Here is another update to keep you informed about what is going on in our business. The main topic this time is to play back the results of our Board meeting that took place June 13th in London. Overall, it was a very positive meeting for the following reasons. First of all, the […]

Recognising your peers

27-Jun-2019|Uncategorized||
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Give out High-fives! Recognition is one of our fundamental human needs. At the most basic level, it makes us feel valued and appreciated so inspiring us to do more. Recognition doesn’t have to be in a formal way and linked to for example our progress reviews or indeed promotion. When we feel our efforts can […]

Hospital Rooms Charity Update

26-Jun-2019|Art Community, Community||
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Many of you will have heard about our support of Hospital Rooms, the amazing charity set up by long term Colart collaborators Tim A Shaw and Niamh White. We thought it would be great to share some of their latest news, so we asked them to tell us about one of their recent projects involving […]

TFAC Student featured in latest Elephant magazine

25-Jun-2019|Art Community, Community||
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Issue 39 of Elephant Magazine, that came out earlier in June, features an article about Nazif Lopulissa. You can read the article by clicking here.   A Great Colart Collaboration Nazif Lopulissa was one of Robert Rost’s students when Robert, our TFAC Manager Benelux, was teaching at the Willem de Kooning Academy. Later on, Nazif […]

Liquitex White Walls @Slade, London

24-Jun-2019|Art Community||
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What is the ‘Liquitex White Walls’ project? Liquitex white walls is a great example of how TFAC directs traffic to brand. Each year we create a white walls project either through funded partnerships or through open submissions to engage with leading art schools, as we saw in the fantastic outcome in Spain last month. The […]

Colart sells painting at auction

18-Jun-2019|Art Community, Business, Colart||
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As part of a review of the asset-base of the business, and prompted by a discussion with Erik Urnes (our owner’s husband), we identified a few months ago that Colart owned a potentially valuable painting by an artist called FN Souza. In the early 1960s Souza was an up-and-coming yet penniless Indian artist living in […]

Amazon – Commercial Update

18-Jun-2019|Colart, Function Update||
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Who is Amazon? Founded twenty-five years ago in 1994, Amazon has grown into one of the largest ecommerce marketplaces and cloud computing platforms in the world.  In 2018 their total revenue was 233 billion US dollars which ranks far ahead of companies such as Google (136 billion US dollars) and Facebook (55 billion US dollars). […]

Vanilla Project

18-Jun-2019|Colart||
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What is Vanilla Project and what does this mean for the business? As you may be aware, a cross-functional team within Colart is working on Project Vanilla. The project is all about simplification of how we financially and operationally plan the flow of products around the Colart Group. We currently have a process which has […]

Sales Update

14-Jun-2019|Function Update||
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Dear all, I know that a number of people are asking about our YTD sales performance and why current sales are so adverse to FC1, where at the end of May Net Sales were down £3.6m and we have got off to a slow invoice start in June. Circa £1.9m of the shortfall at the […]

Electronic Consumer Relationship Management (eCRM)

14-Jun-2019|Colart, Function Update||
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What do eCRM and personalisation mean? We are very excited in the Digital team to introduce eCRM and personalisation for the first time to Colart, live on the new Liquitex website. Let us explain what this means… Consumers are no longer basing their purchase decision on price or product. Instead it’s based on the consumer […]

The Bank – Tags are easier to find

12-Jun-2019|Colart||
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What’s the bank and how can I register? The Bank is Colart’s asset management system where we store pictures, videos, documents, logos etc, in a way that is easily maintained and accessible to both our international offices and retailers. If you don’t already have an account, you can register by clicking here. Tags We’re working […]

Sustainability Report 2018-2019

11-Jun-2019|Business, Colart, Sustainability||
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Please find here the Colart’s sustainability report 2018-19 in English: Click here to access on the Bank. Chinese and French versions will be available soon. The report is a glimpse at Colart’s activities of the past 12 months. All Lindéngruppen companies are required to compile a report. Our ambition is for Sustainability at Colart to […]
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