Old leather seats are bound to live again. In fact, Alice + Whittles, a Canadian company specialized in the manufacturing of socks and shoes, is going to revive the luxury seats of European cars to be scrapped. For the records, they have just launched on the market their “Minimalist Luxa Sneaker” new model. About its […]
In Uruguay, a lively debate on the future of leather industry is currently underway. On the one hand, Eduardo Rubio, a member of parliament, suggested that they should shut down tanneries in compliance with a protectionist policy, after JBS Zenda group announced a forthcoming layoff. On the other hand, journalist Pablo Carrasco, from El Observador […]
Namibia is about to build up and open their first leather tanning industrial site. Minister of Industry Tjekero Tweya closely illustrated the plan, its work in progress and prospective outlooks, which aims at developing a number of clusters all around the country. He emphasized the fact that in some towns and regions, in Namibia, they […]
First things first: CHANEL is not for sale. Second: the brand isn’t thinking of going on the stock market. Third: the griffe continues to grow. After a-year-long stretch of rumors, Philippe Blondiaux, CHANEL’s CFO, is clearing things up. While speaking with a Business of Fashion journalist, the manager explained that the brand’s revenue grew to […]
After the summer, Bottega Veneta will have a new CEO. On September 1st, Claus-Dietrich Arsella, as per his own decision, will give way to Bartolomeo Rongone, wanting to “be closer to the family and start an entrepreneurial adventure” as the company explained in an official note. At the top management of the leather goods company […]
For every action there is an equal reaction. On June 5th, the Trump administration has eliminated India from the beneficiary countries of the preferential entry program to the US market (GSP), a condition that allowed the leather area of New Delhi to have privileged access to the stars and stripes market square. The newly re-elected […]
Suspended activities and great uncertainties about the future. After the months of stop imposed by the government, tanneries of Uttar Pradesh fear that they will not be able to get back to work. Their discomfort is shared by the rest of the Indian leather industry, which wonders whether it would be better to take other […]
Is Vietnam a solution or a trap for US companies? Even before the start of the trade war between the USA and China, production operators were already running away from the latter due to the increased salary costs, and many of them, as a matter of fact, chose Hanoi as a the alternative destination. The...
Uruguay intends to fight the current crisis hitting the tanning segment with a protectionist behavior. After the shock caused by the closing of production sites and loss of hundreds of jobs announced by JBS Zenda, congressman Eduardo Rubio (Uniòn Popular party) presented a draft legislation that limits “for a transitional period” sales of tanning raw […]
Code red among Scottish livestock farmers. The cause? Brexit. The potential exit of the UK from the European Union is already having an impact on the Northern end of the British territory, where livestock-related activities are under pressure. On one side is the decrement in meat sales – and thus the thinning of the herds […]
An ancient fragment of decorated leather has appeared from the land of North Yorkshire. This is what workers of the British county have found while engaged in excavations to upgrade the electricity grid near the town of Aldwark. The leather fragment is fifteen centimetres long and ten or so tall. In the centre there is […]
The tanneries of Ávila are seeing the light after seven hundred years. In the Spanish city, capital of the homonymous province a hundred kilometers west of Madrid, an open-air museum was opened in recent days, created thanks to the recovery work of the ancient district of San Segundo, the area dedicated to processing of leather […]
A material, an industry, a cultural expression. Leather celebrates its magnificent everyday dimension in New York (a location with significance) and looks forward to the future. Welcome to the fourth edition of the tanners’ world congress
Vegan marketing is coming to the four wheel industry too: the goal is to absorb electric cars into its idea of sustainability. But the market is far more complex than propaganda
All those that believe that the new auto market, the one of hybrid and electric cars, is leather free, is largely mistaken. Green and synthetic aren’t synonyms, warn tanners. While regardless of what is said by polemicists, leather’s sustainability is a fact
The boundary is quite fleeting. In certain cases, it doesn’t even exist anymore. For cars, fashion and accessories the word of order is contamination. And these examples tell it In a particularly significant way
It’s “the type of thing that makes a vehicle different”. What this “thing” is and why it has this type of power, is explained by somebody that knows a lot about car interiors (as James Bond can confirm)
How much is produced and where. What market and preference trends are present. around the world of upholstery, in collaboration with CSIL
