The Russians are returning to buy luxury goods, but they will do so in the shops of their cities, abandoning the trip to shopping capital. According to Deloitte, sales of luxury goods increased by 8% in 2016 and this year will increase by at least 11%. In addition to preferences, there are accessories, textiles and […]
The Busenitz Pro Horween is now being distributed, under the Adidas brand. It is the first skateboarding sneaker with uppers in bison leather. And it is also fruit of the partnership between the German company and the most prestigious American tannery, Horween Leather, founded in Chicago in 1905. Historically, Horween is known for having been […]
The design may already be presented as early as this year. And according to Bentley, the interiors will be as beautiful as leather interiors. But instead they will be materials made from mushrooms, jellyfish and other things. Using a label which, especially nowadays, is currying great favour with those in the marketing world, they will […]
The faith of former CEO of Porsche, Wendelin Wiedeking in the footwear sector is so strong that he has invested “several million euro” in the young company from Berlin, Shoepassion. Founded in 2008 by Tim Keding and Henry Bökemeier, Shoepassion is a brand specialised in traditional leather accessories: footwear, gloves, belts and luggage. The Porsche […]
There has been a growth in leather products sales whereas profits have dropped. While has been an increase of 15% and revenues exceeding just a billion pounds, accessories have increasingly become Burberry’s strength. The same top management recognised “leather products” as a key factor, an element shown by the “overcoming” of two-digit growth in stock […]
Cotance (the European Federation of National Tanning Associations) and “industriAll” (federation of trade union organisations) are aiming at checking current levels of attention and practices for the health and safety of workplaces in tanneries; and updating the tools for evaluation and certification by companies. The Project Steering Committee, which met on May 11 in Paris […]
In 1908 William Pearce opened a tannery in Northampton specialising in relief prints to recreate the effect of exotic skins (snake, crocodile, ostrich and lizard) on cow leather. A florid activity started in a modest building and then moved to an Art Deco palace. In 2003, Michael Pearson, then William’s CEO and the founder grand […]
Data provided by USHSLA, US Holders Association, on trends in the first quarter of 2017, captures a two-speed trend in values. Salted leather with salt grew double-digit: by 17% in volume (3.8 million units) and 19% in value (380 million dollars). On the other hand, wet blue is in a negative area, with a performance […]
The export of Indian leather has a negative trend. According to the Council for Leather Exports (CLE), between 2016 and February 2017, the total exports of leather dropped by 4.12%. In the fiscal year of 2017, the equivalent value of exports was $ 5.1 billion, or 1.4% lower than the same period of the previous […]
In the first nine months of the 2016-2017 fiscal year, Bengalese exports of leather fell 4.7% in value, moving from a turnover of $ 211 million a year earlier to the current 201 according to the ‘Export Promotion Bureau (Bangladesh Export Promotion Bureau). The agency identifies the primary cause of the slowdown in the slow […]
A gang of 7 people including a Chinese citizen, who was the brains behind this illegal practice was arrested in Karachi in late April. The authorities seized 592 packs containing more than 4,700 donkey leather from the Lahore area and ready to be smuggled across the border. The value of the goods, according to the […]
“Leather is one of the furniture materials on which it has been invested more in research and development. It has become the star of the interior design of marine equipment, thanks to techniques so advanced that he does not put any limits on use” commented Roberta Mantellassi, owner of the well-known furniture company Mantellassi 1926, […]
The European Alliance for the Leather Goods Industry (ELGA) was set up on 27 April in Brussels. It will be a body that finds collective responses to the problems of European leather goods by promoting the wealth of knowledge and the innovation scope of the sector, defending it from the threat of counterfeiting , and […]
Coach has signed the agreement to acquire Kate Spade. The total transaction value is of 2.4 billion of dollars. Victor Luis, CEO of Coach, says “through this acquisition we will create the first New York based house of modern luxury lifestyle brands”. Furthermore, the US leather giant would be interested in Jimmy Choo, a brand […]
Numbers confirm feelings. Globally, in 2016, Italian leather has maintained its leadership position establishing its market share, resisting a penalising economy and absorbing a drop in the value of its exports. As a result, the export of the finished product remains in line with the 2015 estimates for quantities. However, the value of exports exceeded […]
The text of the guidelines for the management of chemical analysis and their results was presented to participants in the CLeAR (Confidence in Leather Analysis Results), an initiative launched by spring 2016 From UNIC along with the protagonists of fashion. The document – debated during the meeting scheduled for 3 May at the Milanese National […]
On March 28, in Hong Kong, the International Council of Tanners approved the new Guidelines for the Acquisition of the First Tannery Material. Among them, there is the report of the actual weight of raw leather instead of estimates; the updating of commercial-standard tolerances to market reality; traceability data of the leather such as, for […]
In April they patrolled the state of São Paulo, while for the month of May they plan to check the streets of the states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. They went to the shops, browsed through the product data sale sheets, scrutinised communications between producers and retailers. These are some of the techniques […]
An increase in efficiency saved 40,000 hectares of woodland from deforestation and increased 11% of supply chain farmers (10,700 out of 70,000) mapped with satellite tools and data provided by government agencies to verify compliance with the criteria for Work of the group. It is the results that Brazil’s JBS, a multinational meat company, is […]
The Conseil National du Cuir (CNC) proposed to raise the quality of French calf’s leather. The situation seems critical. During the sixth International Vitello Symposium (organised at La Baule by Interbev on 25 and 26 April), the French organisation explained that “only 15% of the tanning raw material has the necessary quality for the high-end […]
