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Elephant West Update

“Art magazine Elephant has a fittingly über-cool new art space, Elephant West, in White City. Enter… to be become instantly more hip” declared the Evening Standard. It’s “an arts hub that champions emerging talent. Watch this space!” proclaimed Time Out in an Instagram video that garnered 59,000 views. Elephant West drew an enthusiastic welcome from […]

Southern Europe Marketing

Dear all, Here below you will find the new Southern Europe Marketing team structure. REASONS FOR THE NEW STRUCTURE The team has been restructured to take into account the following 4 motives: – The local integration of 3 brands: • Lefranc Bourgeois • Conté à Paris • Arches – In agreement with the organisation design […]

Shopper Marketing

Please take a few minutes to have a look at some of the 2018 Shopper and Colart wide initiatives: https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/BcGOD1vb-DWSTVHCZ.mp4 This video is broken up into each brand as an asset you can utilise both internally and externally. They are available on the Bank: • Liquitex merchandising for US • W&N Oil & Acrylic and […]

Shopper Marketing

Please take a few minutes to have a look at some of the 2018 Shopper and Colart wide initiatives: https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/eY4A3EmD-DWSTVHCZ.mp4 This video is broken up into each brand as an asset you can utilise both internally and externally. They are available on the Bank: • Liquitex merchandising for US • W&N Oil & Acrylic and […]

START OF THE YEAR TOWN HALL MEETING

On Wednesday 23rd January, we had a Town Hall Meeting, live from Head Office. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our Chief Executive Officer and Jonathan Spight, Chief Financial Officer. During the meeting, Dennis and Jonathan looked back at 2018 and the many achievements we saw, including the satisfaction from our customers regarding the […]

Brexit

Dear all, As a business, Colart and its board pay close attention to all Brexit discussions and developments. In order to anticipate the consequences that could be brought by the situation, whether a deal is found between the UK and the EU or not, all business functions have plans in place, and Colart will make […]

Cash Management

Glossary H1: First 6 months of the year. FC1: Full year forecast conducted in April, based on 3 months actual results and 9 months forecast. 6 + 6 Forecast: Full year forecast conducted in August, based on 6 months actual results and 6 months forecast. Also called ‘summer forecast’. Adverse: lower or worse than expected/forecasted. […]

Colart’s Collaboration

OUR DONATIONS TO CHARITIES Colart has been running its charity donation for the last 13 months and so far we have helped over 200 charities in the UK, Europe and the US. Not only are we able to reduce our warehouse space without sending products to landfill, we are also helping to implement Colart’s vision […]

Nordics New Home

Dear all, I’m pleased to update you all on the recent move of our Nordics team to a new home in Trosa since 3rd January. Our new address details are as follows: Östra Långgatan 87 619 30, Trosa Sweden Tel. No. +46 8709 3420 HAS EVERYONE MOVED? Angelica Marjakangas and Susanne Ask (Sales Support) will […]

General Data Protection Regulation

Dear colleagues, One of the hot topics for 2018 was the implementation of the of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT? The GDPR is legislation from the European Commission with a goal to strengthen data protection for individuals within the European Union in terms of how their data is processed and […]

Closure of Huaibei

Dear all, It is with sadness that we write to confirm the company’s decision to close the Huaibei canvas plant with immediate effect. Whilst we have been working hard to find an alternative to this decision, the competitive demands of the global canvas market mean that it is no longer financially viable to continue to […]

Jira Service Desk

On 1st January 2019, the Technology team rolled out a brand new fit for purpose Tech Support System using Jira Service Desk. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? This new tool has an improved interface where you can easily log-in your issues. The number of question categories has been greatly reduced to 10 (from over 80!) to […]

Winsor & newton retail guidelines

Shopper Marketing Round Up 4/4 The Winsor & Newton in store guidelines are now available on the Bank. The purpose of these creative guidelines is to ensure consistency when applied in-store across our global estate. The development of our in-store solutions is based on our guiding principles to attract, engage and convert shoppers. These guidelines […]

Exciting innovation and insights collaboration

With Central Saint Martins We are very pleased to announce the start of an exciting two-year innovation and insight collaboration with world-renowned arts and design college Central Saint Martins. Over the two years, hundreds of students will contribute with ideas of alternative use of our existing products, engaging ways of communicating & new product/service ideas. […]