News

DENNIS’ BLOG – APRIL 2019

As Easter is coming up, we can see that so far this year we continue to manage cash and cost according to plan, which is encouraging especially as we have seen a slow start to sales this year due to US business pull forward in 2018 and slow trading in France.

ELEPHANT LABS – OUR ARTIST STUDIOS IN LONDON

We have two large artists’ studios in our London office which are full all year round with artists on residencies. Very popular with artists, residencies give them an opportunity to apply to work somewhere different from their everyday studio, usually with a view to gaining a new cultural or technical insight.

TFAC – LATEST EVENTS AND UPDATES

WORKSHOPS ON WATER COLOUR WITH BARBARA NICHOLS (CURRENTLY SHOWING AT THE JPM GALLERY) at Central St Martins and Glasgow School of Art

THE NEW LIQUITEX WEBSITE IS LIVE!

On 27th February 2019 the new Liquitex Brand website went live! This is a milestone in Colart’s Digital transformation journey and a key building block in Liquitex’ s strategy to reach their vision to be the first choice in acrylic.

DENNIS’ BLOG – MARCH 2019

As we are now entering the end of 2019’s first quarter, we can already see that we had a positive start on the new year, with our sales on budget and all other KPIs (gross margin, EBIT, Cash, Overhead) better than budget.

JIRA SERVICE DESK

Closure of TopDesk on 1st April: our new Tech Support System, Jira Service Desk has now been in place for over two months, and has seen great results so far

COLART’S TECHNICAL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

COLART'S TECHNICAL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE - MEMBERS OF THE TEAM • Debbie Bryan, Technical Centre of Excellence advisor • Mark Cann, Technical Excellence Manager

TFAC UK: BLUE ROOM PROJECT

In early 2019, Colart launched an innovation and insights collaboration with Central Saint Martins, part of the University of the Arts London. The collaboration is made of different experiences, programmes and projects, one of them being the Blue Room Project.

WELLBEING CAMPAIGN 2019 – ROUND UP COMMUNICATION

The Wellbeing ambassadors kickstarted 2019 with a month-long campaign to share with you great videos from some of our Business Units, photos of events from last year, and some reminders on the importance of Wellbeing at Colart - we hope you enjoy them!

Finance Team: New team structure

After a few announcements relating to UK, Northern Europe & International Finance over the last few months, we would like to share the updated structure of the team.

Charity project

Liquitex has once again participated in this new edition of Art Madrid, an important Spanish contemporary art fair, as collaborator for a very special project: #SomosKanva.

The Studio Building

​In many people’s minds Head Office and the Studio Building are the same thing.