Another busy one heading up to the end of year, with focuses on: development/role changes within the team, more Jotun Training and our end of year review. Also please note the update on our opening times over the upcoming holiday season!

With Kortec’s continual growth, we are finding more new positions opening up and where appropriate we are looking for internal promotions first!

We are pleased to announce two new changes:

Simon Long will be moving roles from Logistics Operative to Operations Lead – coordinating the logistics department.

Reece Strode’s role title has been updated to Chief of Sales,  as this is more representative of his current role taking responsibility for the sales department as a whole.
 
Congratulations to Simon and Reece!

Heroes Of The Month

Congratulations to all our Heroes of November! 

We are pleased to announce that November's top scorers for each of our four values (Respect, Innovation, Dynamism and Expertise) were:

Jotun Training

As you may be aware earlier this year Jotun kindly offered to run a general training session for us, to help towards the continual education of our new recruits and to help refresh the technical knowledge of the whole team. As the training provided in April has enhanced our team’s knowledge, we wanted to ensure that we expanded their knowledge further. 

In this session Gary and Peter went over the following areas: 

• Product range and the variability of uses for the products.
• What preparation metal needs before paint is applied and why.
• What questions to ask a customer so we can offer the correct system.
• Why different types of paint are required for different environment / situations.
• The different Thinners they use.

We are extremely grateful for the time given to our team and the trusted partnership we have grown with Jotun over the years – thanks Gary and Peter once again!

TrustPilot Competition

With the holiday season quickly approaching we would like to take the time to thank you for all your continued support this year.

To be in with the chance of winning two bottles of wine, all you will need to do is to leave a review on our Trustpilot by following this link: https://www.trustpilot.com/evaluate/kortec.co.uk

The winner will be announced on the 21st December.

Update On Upcoming Holiday Opening Times

This year Kortec will be closing from Thursday 21st December 2023 at 15:00 and will be returning on the 2nd January 2024 – we will be giving our entire team a break between these dates. 

To ensure your orders are not affected we have taken necessary steps to minimize any potential impact or disruptions - please see the below information:

• Closing date for orders – 5pm on 15^th December 2023
• Last chance for urgent orders - 11am on 18th December 2023
• Closed for the holidays – 3pm Thursday 21^st December 2023
• Re-opening – 1:30pm on 2^nd January 2024
• First delivery dates when back – 4^th January 2024

PEAK Strategy / End of Year Review

To update the team on progress of the new PEAK strategy framework and outline our plans for 2024 we recently held a team review to "Update & Renew" covering: 

Update:
- Strategic projects nailed
- Key number performance
- Provisional 2024 targets

Renew:
- New Growth bonus structure! Sharing what everyone helps to achieve
- New markets/ranges for 2024
- Role changes and new starters
- Process for collecting new ideas

Thanks to all involved - looking forward to some serious progress over the next few weeks!

A Quick Recap- RESPECT - Overview on our Values

Looking back at our recent LinkedIn updates:

Looking back at our recent LinkedIn updates:

RESPECT - what's it all about?

At Kortec, we define it as "Honest, kind and timely teamwork"

Really it's about treating others not just how you would like to be treated, but how they want to be treated. That applies to everyone - not just our team and our clients, but our suppliers, business partners, service agents etc.

We've proved this works for us in many ways:
- honesty means we're never trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes (internally or externally) - so we can have robust and open conversations that reach strong solutions
- kindness means that those we work with are always willing to go the extra mile when needed - we look after each other
- being timely means we're proactive and stuff gets done - leaving things till the last minute doesn't do anybody any good

And finally teamwork - we laugh at the old "makes the dream work" cliche, but it's really true! We've proved so many times that there are always unexpected resources across the team to meet any need, as long as we remember to work on it as a team.

So Respect works for us, and we believe it works for all our contacts too.

We saw this update from the BCF recently BCF Publishes Net Zero Coatings Roadmap : PaintSquare News. It’s great to see direction in the industry towards these goals – we’re looking forward to developing our sustainability goals/strategy through 2024!

Keep an eye out for our next edition, with more news and updates! (With the break, this will be sent around the 8^th January 2024).



• New starters
• January launch