15 Apr 2019 US raw material, Central Valley Meat buy out Harris Ranch Beef to create seventh national player
8 Apr 2019 Brazil’s leather business has a bad start in 2019: values of exports slump and drop by 24.5%
4 Apr 2019 Brazil, Marfrig’s new slaughterhouse operates at 100% capacity: 2,000 bovines per day inside the Vàrzea Grande site
4 Apr 2019 Zimbabwe’s “discovery”: the leather segment gains from lower export duties (and reduces waste at the same time)
1 Apr 2019 Colombia’s protectionism gets the market into trouble as tanning raw material drops by 35% in price
25 Mar 2019 USA, in 2018 China and Italy buy fewer raw hides: exports of wet blue (-13%) and salted hides (-25.7%) decrease
25 Mar 2019 Brazil’s meat industry goes great in 2018 as livestock units increase by 3.4%. As well, tanneries buy bigger quantities of raw hides
11 Mar 2019 USA: fattening bovines increase, while slaughters decline. Livestock and farming industry is about to slow down
11 Mar 2019 Argentina’s meat exports have been booming (+30.7%) in 2018, unlike raw hides: Macri’s action proves still ineffective
7 Mar 2019 Brazil and raw material: the number of units slaughtered grows, but according to BRF, 2018 was “the worst year of the decade”
4 Mar 2019 Slaughters, currency exchange and National Beef acquisition drive Marfrig’s top record performance: +19.8% in 2018
18 Feb 2019 Africa’s meat and leather industry to deal with Chinese investors, who build in Robiki, and Brazilians as well
14 Feb 2019 Tyson Foods has an interim first quarter: Sales decrease slightly, while the Beef division grows (+1%)
14 Feb 2019 Australia, Queensland’s farms are overwhelmed by torrential rain: between 300,000 and 500,000 bovines lost
11 Feb 2019 USA, red meat overwhelming boom slows down for the very first time, as 2019 slaughter trend is negative (-2,7%)
11 Feb 2019 Australia’s leather industry is a little messy: sheep and goat slaughters decrease, warehouses are packed with bovine hides
21 Jan 2019 In 2018 Brazil is still meat world leader, as exports go up by 11%. A remarkable amount (20%) comes from Mato Grosso
14 Jan 2019 Zimbabwe partly steps back on leather protectionism, while applying duty concession to export of hides and skins. Just for two years though
