GROWING UNCERTAINTIES SURROUND THE FUTURE OF CLARKS. THE BRITISH FOOTWEAR BRAND, A GLOBAL SHOE GIANT, HAS CHANGED TOP MANAGERS AND STRATEGIES IN RECENT YEARS. CUTS, CLOSURES AND, ABOVE ALL, A DIFFERENT SUPPLY CHAIN. BUT RESULTS ARE YET TO COME
“Things are changing very quickly: footwear manufacturing is getting closer and closer to consumers’ markets, thus reshoring towards the major European manufacturing countries; on the other hand, China, where production costs are going up, has reduced its own market shares in favor of other Asian countries where such costs are cheaper”. That’s the big picture […]
USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture, provides figures about slaughtering. The starting point is that in 2017 all red meat manufacturing countries increased the number of livestock units: The United States first, +6 per cent on annual basis, then Brazil, China and India, +1/2 per cent; as for the Eurozone countries, growth was remarkable, […]
India is about to create a set of incentives for the tanning cluster, the same tanneries which were hardly hindered so far. Indeed the modus operandi of the Indian government, while dealing with the leather industry, looks contradictory. In fact, first Hindu radical politics (by the way, Prime Minister Modi’s party, BJP, is an ultra-nationalist […]
Despite the fact that they had time to get compliant with rules, they did not abide by legal obligations. That is the reason why they are closing now. In fact, the Environmental agency of the Indian province of Tamil Nadu (TNPCB) has imposed the lockout of 8 out of 11 tanneries located in Sembattu and […]
Time out. Indian press announce that livestock trade ban, set by Modi’s Government, has been suspended. Just for the records, such measure, along with a state of uncertainty and oppression, which have been affecting Indian workers for months, is actually crippling the meat and leather industries. It is not true though. In fact, now Indian […]
Calf and goat skins turnover has been increasing, compared to last year’s same period, while in contrast medium-large bovine hides and sheep skins slow down; slightly the former, more remarkably the latter. Such are the early data about Italian tanning industry, with regard to July-September 2017, provided by Lineapelle in their Economic Report over the […]
Canyons in San Diego Bay are filled with coloured water marshland. County Border Patrols (California Border Police) who plunged in the river Tijuana went out of it with skin rash, and their boots were worn out. ABC10 television channel has compared, in their opening news report, the appalling situation of the river, which arises in […]
CIFA (the Confederation of International Footwear Associations) rejected Myanmar membership application. Why? Because the Burmese Government has been hunting down Rohingya people, who represent a Muslim ethnic minority. Allegedly, since the end of August over 600,000 people have fled from Myanmar towards Bangladesh, running away from “ethnic cleansing”, as the United Nations Organization has depicted […]
Indian government is working on relevant investments in tanning and footwear industry. As reported by local media, India is about to implement a massive investment, over 300 million euros, formerly planned, a few months ago, by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Such financial measures also include some tax benefits, in the same way as […]
Dutch Stahl, tanning chemicals giant, who has recently bought out Basf competitor, signed an agreement with Solidaridad charity organization, PUM volunteer association and a few Indian companies to clean up the river Ganges. The project, backed by The Sustainable Water Fund (FDW) programme, based on a partnership between public and private enterprises promoted by Dutch […]
IT IS NOT A PARADOX. GST AUTOLEATHER IS UNDER CHAPTER 11, BUT THAT IS NOT A GENERAL ILLNESS SYMPTOM OF THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR AS A WHOLE, WHICH IS CONTINUING ITS POSITIVE PERIOD: THE PROBLEMS THE US-BASED (AND JAPANESE OWNED) GIANT IS HAVING, IS CAUSING FURTHER COMPLICATIONS THATS ARE DUE TO A LARGE NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL REASONS
Global production, export and cattle livestock units go up. USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture, expects livestock and farm industry to boom worldwide in the next 14 months. By the end of 2018 the overall number of cattle units bred by farmers is going to grow: as a whole units will exceed 1 billion […]
Australia is the major exporter of red meat in the world. They outdo India, Brazil, the USA and New Zealand, as their export amounts to 1,8 million tons. Australia is top ranked among sheep and goat meat exporters as well, after New Zealand though: the two of them together make around 70% of global exports. […]
Another blow for Jalandhar tanning district, which, by the way, has been working for two years at half speed since sewage treatment plant does not keep up with the site production. As reported by local press, tanneries currently working have been forced to a-10-day closedown on their beamhouse operations, starting from October 13. During the […]
Kenya’s government can’t get enough of protectionism. At the presentation for the leather cluster’s economic development (period going from 2017-2022), government officials explained that, starting in mid-2018, a fiscal exemption on raw and semi-finished hides may be approved by the government. Opposite to that is the thought on exports. In fact, Nairobi’s government plans on […]
Government imposed restrictions on illegal slaughtering of animals by tanneries has had an immediate and dramatic effect on leather exports. “H&M and Inditex (Zara) have reduced orders’ amount, as they fear our factories will have difficulties in getting the materials”, said M. Rafeeque Ahmed, one of the main shoe-makers in Chennai to the local press. […]
On the one hand, the new regulation, which, in the name of animal welfare, makes the slaughter of animals difficult. On the contrary, the new regime of taxation, which frustrates those areas of bridging between farms and slaughter, to the climate of violence surrounding the meat industry, under the constant threat of cow vigilantes. To […]
In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is told to be setting up a ministry for bovine, a promise already announced in the electoral campaign by the politician. To push for the introduction was Visha Hindu Parishad, a Hindu organization, that has long called for the ban on slaughter, consumption and sale of beef to protect […]
Raw, semi-finished leather is one of the most heavily penalised raw materials from protectionism. UNIC (National Union of Conciary Industry) estimates that well over 50% of the world’s leather is taken away from free trade. Since August 16, this share has been further aggravated by the Turkish government that is imposing a $ 500 per […]
