About Great Art - UK's largest range of quality art materials and discount artists supplies online

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The company's initial customers were therapy centres that used art in all its forms to improve the quality of life for those with disabilities. Today, artists from every walk of life benefit from the Gerstaecker specialist ability to source and supply the finest art materials currently available.

Gerstaecker Verlag GmbH is based in Eitorf, a small town to the east of Bonn. Here, in a pretty valley formed by the river Sieg, the company has an ultra-modern 215,000 sq ft distribution centre. At its heart is a state-of-the-art warehouse where 40,000 different products are stocked ready for dispatch to artists all over Europe.

Every year, the company sends out 55,000 parcels per month and serves 500,000 customers throughout Europe. Backed by up-to-the-minute processing systems linked to subsidiaries in France and the UK, the picking and packing process operates day and night.

Still very much a family business, Gerstaecker prides itself on the experience and expertise of its managers and staff whose specialist knowledge of the art supplies industry helps to ensure the efficient operation of Europe's most comprehensive and competitive one-stop shop for quality art materials.

Gerstaecker UK Limited - trading as GreatArt - is located at Alton, Hampshire in the heart of Jane Austen Country. Since its inception in 2002, GreatArt is now the UK's leading catalogue and webshop for quality art materials. Here we receive and process your orders. Our aim is to provide a reliable and friendly service and we welcome your views so that the contents of the GreatArt program can better reflect your particular needs.

You, the customer are at the heart of all we do at GreatArt. Whether in our friendly customer service department where we carefully take your order or in the delivery of the parcel to your door, we do everything we can to make you feel confident in choosing GreatArt.

You can either order online or a member of our friendly sales team will take your order over the phone. You can be confident if your order by telephone - our Sales team will not rush you! GreatArt are here to help you select the right products and give you immediate information on stock availability.

Your order will be picked and packed in our modern logistics centre. Each order is personally checked and 'signed off' by one of the members of our efficient logistics team.

We aim to deliver your art materials in 5 working days from receipt of your order. If you have registered your email address with us, you will get a despatch email from us so that you can track your parcel.

You take delivery of your order in your own home. No travelling time involved! No annoying hunt for a parking space! No heavy bags to carry! No minimum order value! Schools and businesses also benefit from this efficient service.

Whether you are a teacher, professional artist or leisure painter, the simplicity of ordering from GreatArt leaves you more time for your artistic creations!

This trade association sets standards for materials such as mount board specifications, which Great Art follows; it pioneered the Guild Commender Framer program to enhance skills and knowledge in framing; it gives guidance via publications on various aspects of the industry; through the award winning Art Business Today magazine it disseminates information; and it has established a code of ethics for doing business.