CASS ART is the UK’s leading art supplies retailer with 14 stores across the UK & a recently revamped online platform, hosting more than 20,000 products from the world’s best art material brands. The Cass family has supported artists for over 125 years with the first Cass Art Shop opened at 13 Charing Cross Road in 1984. Committed to our manifesto of ‘Let’s Fill this Town with Artists’, we are on a mission to make good quality art materials accessible and affordable to everyone, aged 3-103, beginner or professional.
The SAA is a membership for anyone with a passion for creating; whether that is painting, drawing or mixed media art. It’s a fantastic service for both amateur & professional artists alike, offering various tiered membership options - from free UK delivery, exclusive prices, and a price match guarantee on art supplies. Plus access to thousands of art tutorial videos, affordable art printing services, the benefit of exhibition cover and third-party liability insurance, and last but not least multiple editions of the popular educational magazine Paint & Create.
ARTCOE is a B2B manufacturer, distributor & wholesaler of over 20,000 fine art, graphic and stationery materials, including their own brand, Frisk, a product range offering over 500 fine art, graphic and stationery materials in over 25 product categories, trade and consumer renowned for high quality & great value. Artcoe exclusively supply the trade, in both retail & education sectors.
In July 2022, Cass Art bought the SAA & Artcoe, with the view that joining forces would lead to an even bigger and better offering to our combined customer bases. Over the past months, we have been working hard to improve the service offered to the SAA's members and online retail customers, and learning more about Artcoe’s Frisk B2B operation to see how we could grow and develop both brands.
Having announced the purchase of SAA to the members in the September Paint & Create Magazine, we now start our new financial year across the group, looking to drive forward the integration and finally beginning to bring our channels across all businesses to together.
As part of that, we created new Cass Group branding, designed by Angus Hyland at Pentagram, one of the world’s most awarded design agencies. An agency which has been involved in helping develop the Cass Art brand identity, product design and interiors over many years. Going forward this branding will serve as the home for our three companies, however on a day-to-day basis, each brand will continue to operate under their own individual identity.
