The result amounts to 34 tanneries being shut down and notices being sent to 245 other ones. Pakistan’s tanning industry concluded summer with a round of investigations by local authorities. In Sialkot, Punjab state, authorities verified the environmental compliance of the manufacturing companies (tanneries and others), and then proceeded to sanction them for environmental crimes. […]
His tenure as president of the LHCA, the amalgamation of LIA (the US tanners’ association) and USHSLA (the traders’ association), is coming to an end. In his more than ten years at the top of the US leather industry, Stephen Sothmann (pictured) has seen the sector experience exciting moments, such as during the boom in...
French shoe manufacturer Clergerie is getting American. Titan Footwear, a subsidiary of the US group Titan Industries, is the saviour of the transalpine brand that went into receivership last March. Titan will retain 45% of the workforce (60 of the 134 employees). Crisis and (potential) revival Founded in 1981 by Robert Clergerie, the brand was...
Vietnam and Indonesia down. Manufacturers’ excess stocks, a consequence of lower sales, mean that incoming orders in Vietnam and Indonesia are falling. With natural consequences for employment. For some years now, China has been losing its dominance as the world’s only factory. Vietnam had proved to be the stronger alternative. Indonesia has also increased its […]
In the USA, for customers who buy shoes not only on the basis of price, leather is a key element. So much so, that they often explicitly request it. And all this, despite the fact that the sovereignty of the trainers still seems to be firmly established, and the return to the formal shoes seems...
The tanning segments of India and Bangladesh united by a series of challenges. A dangerous mix, given by decreasing exports, lack of certifications, plants’ positions, and the demand to reduce duties. The market for Tamil Nadu Let’s start with India. Here a 50% decrease in exports and internal demand for the tanneries of Tamil Nadu is […]
The Ukrainian-Russian conflict continues. One of the entities hit by the consequent sanctions between Moscow and the EU is Spanish tannery Union For Leather, which is in part fueled by Russian capital. This mix of missing raw materials and chemicals, difficulties in accessing credit and the limits to selling finished products, are all hitting operators....
In the Everglades, the swampy area in South Florida, tanning is coming to solve the problem of invading pythons. Yes, because ever since someone (probably private owners) released pythons from Burma into the wild in the early 1980s, the ecosystem of the US region has been overwhelmed by the voracity of the Asian reptile. The...
The handbag market is expanding. It is such an accepted premise that now it is the numerical evaluations that are making the news. According to the consultancy firm Technavio, the latest to venture into the exercise, between 2022 and 2027 the turnover of the leather goods industry will increase by more than 14 billion dollars....
Taking jobs away from Vietnam to give it to India. It seems to be the strategy of Pou Chen Corp, the largest global manufacturer of sporting shoes, which decided to cut 6,000 jobs from a Vietnam-based production site (in photo) and invest 280 million USD to build a new plant in India. The goal: to […]
Bye bye Covid. Milan’s Design week, with Salone del Mobile and the related Fuorisalone spread throughout the city, crashes the pandemic and returns to grind out the usual fair colossal numbers. Over 300,000 attendees, 15% more than 2022 with a renewed international roientation. A dimension, the latter, that also saw Lineapelle in the front row, […]
“Reshoring? No thanks”. Giuseppe Bettinelli (in photo), entrepreneur leading La Compagnia delle Pelli, believes that the price difference between producing in Asia and Italy is still too wide. At least for his reference segment. Created in 1993 and specialized in managing licenses in the leather goods’ industry (currently Baldinini, Harmont&Blaine and Ungaro), La Compagnia delle Pelli is […]
The world’s comeback at Lineapelle 101 was long waited for. And the world, from February 21 to 23, came back to the pavilions of Fieramilano Rho to participate in the most important fair for the leather industry in the world. A stylish return that was certified by the entrance data: 24,574 buyers and operators attended […]
The 2023 goal of soles and accessories’ manufacturers? Repeating the good performance of 2022. The wave of large luxury brands doesn’t impact just those that supply the finished products, such as shoes and handbags, but also the ones manufacturing the components. A segment made of companies capable of diversifying business lines: production and client segments....
Conceria Milanese restarts. The company based in Rho, specialized in tanning precious leather and fur, and just recently re-capitalized, is now in the condition of cancelling all debt and “dispense a new type of commercial financing”, states an official statement published by the company’s advisor. The operation changes the internal division of shares as well:...
Taking advantage of the absence of big brand names, Pantanetti has built a growth strategy in Russia. In 2008, the Montegranaro-based company abandoned contract production to focus exclusively on its own brand. Pantanetti, which employs 25 people, has set up a digital archive to allow customers to order models from 10-year-old collections. The company is...
How to win in a “very aggressive price range”. The Italian brand The Jack Leathers has succeeded in doing so by maintaining very competitive price lists, to say the least. “We are 30% below our competitors,” explained Franco Lucchese, CEO of John Peter di Asti, owner of the brand, “and every season we grow by...
Turkish shoes’ production is becoming too expensive. And as a consequence, foreign clients prefer to move supply chains in India or Portugal. Turkey was turning out to be the winner of the challenging situation that impacted Asia’s supply chain systems during the last two years. But according to Berke İçten, president of TASD (the nation’s […]
Russia left a hole for the leather industry. Since about a year ago, when relations between Russia and Europe and North America grew thin (if not worse given the sanctions imposed), Russia has been looking for new commercial partners in Central Asia. Trade with India has already flourished and a new agreement with Pakistan could […]
They able to produce the BFT shoe line of the Kəh-noo brand only in Italy. The engineers of the Fly Group, the company based in Silea (Treviso) that owns the brand, first tried to set up production in India, Tunisia, Portugal and Pakistan. All attempts were unsuccessful. Then, they found the right supplier in Tolentino,...
