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Contact info Account Manager Denmark / Kasper Rasmussen / t +45 4025 1994 Account Manager Sweden / Joakim Pärmo / t +46 70 813 6363 Henning Marceliussen / t +47 926 10 054 Account Manager Norway / Marko Utrianen / t +35 844 5010 545 Account Manager Finland / Line Troen / t +45 2225 1968 Office Manager Scandinavia / Marcel Jansma / head office t +31 544 39 2211 Commercial Director / www.stateofart.com Copenhagen / CIFF Showrooms, B2-110 Stilmæssigt vurderer jeg, at State of Art rammer de fleste skandinaviske mænds smag. Marcel Jansma, Commercial Director - Vi ved fra salgsstatistikker, at de fleste State of Art udstiller i CIFF Showrooms gør State of Art en dyd ud af at farvekoor- plans for the Scandinavian market. The kunder køber to stykker tøj ad gangen – for eksempel en skjorte med en pullover eller et par bukser med en sweatshirt til. Derfor dinere leveringerne. Til Autumn/Winter 14/15 er der for eksempel seks leveringer opbygget i matchende farver. Det gør det nemt at sælge to stykker tøj, der passer sammen, for ekspedienten i butikken – og det gør det let for den mandlige forbruger, eller hans bedre halvdel for den sags skyld, at overskue, hvordan elementerne kan kombineres, siger Marcel Jansma afslutningsvist. This is Now. Interviewet er slut. Og snart er det tid for de skandinaviske indkøberne til at beslutte, hvorvidt det er i denne sæson, State of Art skal føres i deres butik. B2-110. The Dutch brand State of Art has great brand has been around for five years, but in april 2013, a new organizational setup was constructed with Commercial Director Marcel Jansma at the head. The former co- owners were bought out and a new and ambitious sales strategy came into existence. - In future we will position ourselves less on the track to Porsches and racing. We will, however, maintain the matching atmosphere of Old Times Classics and the idea that State of Art is a style icon as well as the fact that the brand is built on high quality, excellence and something unique that separate us from other life style brands. 2014 will be This is Now’s year. It will be the heading for everything that we do: It is now that we do it and we are 100% present when doing it. Generally, we wish to focus more on the brand and less on cars, Marcel Jansma explains to NU, when we were visiting the company. In the Benelux countries, State of Art is a market leader in the casual menswear seg- ment with over 600 retail partners and 32 State of Art stores As an example, Marcel Jansma notes that State of Art has a more than above sell through in general against all competition .After Benelux , State of art is expanding rapidly to several other European countries. In spite of the crisis, Start of Art can pre- Uncultivated potential 101_