14 Feb 2019 India, 12 tanneries running from Uttar Pradesh now have authorization to build in Western Bengala
7 Feb 2019 Premium Scottish Leather Group, negotiations come to a halt because of a 0.57% difference: the union calls for a three-day strike
7 Feb 2019 Indian Chronicles: a potential leather cluster is being thought of for Vellore, while Kanpur continues to be problematic
7 Feb 2019 Mourning for Don Ohsman, founder of Hidenet, who left the world at 78: “enthusiastic voice in favour of leather”
4 Feb 2019 Premium France’s leather industry faces a few ups and many downs in 2018 while reptile is booming
4 Feb 2019 China, the slow down scares the world: GDP slows, along with consumption and new automobiles’ registrations
4 Feb 2019 Africa, investigative report reveals raw hides smuggling across open border between Uganda and Kenya
31 Jan 2019 Bikkembergs gives its shoes’ production to Hong Kong-based Global Brand Group: is this isn’t a goodbye to made-in-Italy goods, it isn’t far from it
31 Jan 2019 Leather Queen: the film Bohemian Rhapsody celebrates the passion of Freddie Mercury of leather (too)
28 Jan 2019 Brexit no deal frightens Burberry: “We might lose millions of pounds”. Adidas is concerned, while BFC asks for a new referendum
28 Jan 2019 Appalling 2018 ends very negatively (-30,8% in December) for Brazil’s leather industry, whose foreign revenues slump by 24%
28 Jan 2019 Russia’s Siberian new tannery RK Altai is (almost) ready to start, but opening is put off again
21 Jan 2019 Tears and smiles for US upholstery: JLF/Elite Leather close without warning, while Omnia Italian Design revamp
17 Jan 2019 The US Army reforms its boots: “The leather needs to be lighter and softer”. The new models are being tried out for 3 months
14 Jan 2019 Dior, Loewe and Hermès turn upside down Paris fashion week to avoid gilet jaunes, who are deeply affecting sales as well
14 Jan 2019 In the commercial war underway, the USA do not raise duties and open to talks. Yet China set barriers to calf skin trade
14 Jan 2019 India’s meat & leather industry argue about duties: the former (raw material) rejects them, the latter (shoes and bags) needs them
14 Jan 2019 Bangladesh workers revolt in Savar against law over minimum pay contract: 1 casualty and over 30 injured
