2016 marked an unprecedented turnover for Skechers. In the fourth quarter, the US brand had revenues for $ 764.3 million (+ 5.8% over the same period of 2015), while the result for the full year marked a 3.56 billion dollars, which was more than 3,3 billion euro (+ 13.2% on 2015). The final push to […]
The central theme of the event was to find a way to make the tanning process sustainable and optimising through the development of practices, innovation and a”revolution”, as indicated by Anthony Covington, a professor at the University of Northampton. As scheduled, several interventions focused on the strengths of the existing methods of tanning. Reviews the […]
In the fiscal year, 2015-2016 foreign indian leather turnover totalled $ 5.8 billion (5.4 billion euro). It means that in a year the value of exports of shoes, gloves, accessories and Indian leather fell by 9.9%. The decline in exports of finished leather, however, totalled a – 3.4% according to the CLE (India’s Council for […]
The average salary is the equivalent of 119 Euros per month. However, to live in decent conditions, it would take at least 278 euros per month. In the majority of the case, workers are hired by subcontract labour companies. The contracts bind remuneration to production quotas. Most of the time, this quota is so high […]
According to the Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA), between the fiscal year 2011-2012 and the newly concluded (2015-2016), exports of finished leather in Islamabad has increased. It went from 25 million square meters circa per year to the current 16.8, with a decreasing turnover from 1.049 billion dollars of five years ago to today’s 0.981. It […]
Hazaribagh’s Tanneries, near Dhaka (Bangladesh), are among the most polluted in the world. It has been 15 years since the first announcement of their planned relocation to a specific industrial area in Savar, a Dhaka district. However, they still refuse to do so for several reasons among which there is also the claim that the […]
This 7th of November it was the turn of a group of 12 Indian designs students to visit Fashion Studio Lineapelle. The group, who’s in Milan for a month as part of a course organised by the Laureate International Universities network and Domus Academy, discovered features and secrets of Italian leather. Yesterday, instead, it was […]
From 2000 to 2014 BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries and Mexico have seen a surge in sales of fashion products eight times higher than in Germany, Canada, and the USA. In the same period of time, on a global scale, the number of garments purchased by each person has increased by an average of […]
There is no room for discussion regarding the latest data on exports for Vietnam and China. Footwear exports from Vietnam continue to be going full steam ahead: the first 9 months of the year showed an increase of 7.9% over the same period of 2015, for a total value of $9.4 billion. The main destinations […]
United States – a healthy market for footwear? No, imports fell in the first six months of the year. Japan in crisis? No, shoe purchases from abroad increased in the first half of the year. Unstoppable China? No, footwear exports between January and June collapsed. Let’s start with the USA, responsible for 20.8% of world […]
Lineapelle drives hard on the “+” sign. In a trend that clearly goes against the flow of the current market situation, the most important international event in the leather sector yesterday closed the doors on the Autumn/Winter 2017/18 edition, racking up 9% more visitors (21,184) than in September 2015, with a significant increase in foreign […]
Drops in leather demand at both domestic (-2.1% in value) and foreign (-4.9%) level. The general slowdown forces the Italian tanning industry to deal with a first half of 2016 with the handbrake on: the value of Italian production decreases by 4.1% in value. Foreign sales make up about 75% of total turnover: France is […]
