Revenue falls while net profits remain stable. Pittards, British brand active in the manufacturing chain of leather gloves, leather goods and leather car interiors, has published its financial data regarding the year that ended on December 31st, 2018. Sales reached 33.34 million euro, down from the revenue of 2017 of 35.4 million, while net profits […]
“The truth is that I am not sure there will be a fourth generation of the Portolano family to continue making gloves”. When discussing the matter with La Prensa, local newspaper, Sebastiàn Portolano doesn’t only refer to the crisis that has affected the Argentinian market as of lately. He also talks about the vocation for...
The Vàrzea Grande plant (Mato Grosso) has the production capacity to handle 2,000 bovines per day. And now Marfrig, Brazilian giant operating in the red meat and leather industry, which bought controlling interests of BRF last December, takes charge of the latter with a strategy that, according to the holding company, aims at optimizing the […]
The reduction of export duties brings Zimbabwe’s raw hides market back to life. The African government’s Finance Minsitry decided to lower the duties on raw hides’ exports in 2019, and, three months later, the first results are flowing in. Reneth Mano, member of the consulting council of Livestock and Meat Industry, explained to online portal […]
LaConceria is a publishing project that will appeal to all operators of the leather value chain: – Slaughterhouses, raw materials, brokers, traders, producers of technology and machinery, chemicals, services – Tanneries and their partners – Footwear, leather goods, clothing manufacturers, upholstered furniture and automotive sector, designer labels in the fashion industry and luxury – Retailers, […]
The video, made public in 2009, is somehow bound to open an investigation. In Shandong market, China, some pitiless workers take raccoons out of their cages and, after beating them up on their head and hitting them to the ground, to stun them, skin them alive. Animal-rights activists have been watching and video recording everything […]
While celebrating their return to Wall Street, Levi’s top managers have been facing, at the same time, one more problem. For the records, on March 20, 35 years after the company delisting, which took place in 1984, they listed again the denim and cowboy apparel brand at the New York Stock Exchange. That is part […]
Why do sneakers by Louis Vuitton cost up to 1,600 US dollars? Jian DeLeon, head editor of Highsnobiety portal, answered the question, while telling about his visit to Louis Vuitton’s Manufacture De Souliers, based in Fiesso d’Artico. Fast fashion sneakers recall, in their shape and look, luxury sneakers, though both quality and price are hugely […]
First, they check leather; then, they cut and sew it, and subsequently assemble footwear spare parts. Ultimately, they make it finished. Journalist David Celdran, from ANC portal, took some pictures and wrote down a few short descriptions of the multiple processing stages at Calzaturificio Santoni (Santoni shoe factory). After visiting their manufacturing laboratory based in […]
Pedro Garcia, a Spanish brand, aims to augment its turnover thanks to online sales. They also rely on Italy’s market, the fourth most important after the United States, Asia and Middle East. The company was founded in 1925 by the grandfather of Mila (chief executive officer) and Pedro Garcia (creative director), the brothers who took […]
In the internet, one can really sell and buy everything, including entire tanneries. Such is the proposition in a few web platforms. On top of hundreds of advertisements about machinery for processing leather in the tanning industry, someone is also trying to sell his own business: that is why one can find facilities, pallets stacked […]
One year after the duty increase the government’s chest doesn’t have a penny more than before. This is happening in Kenya, where in June 2018 the government approved a duty between 25% and 35% on the value of shoes – or 10 USD per unit -, with the goal of helping the local segment and […]
Over the last 15 months, the price of Colombia’s tanning raw material has been decreasing by 35%. Based on such negative trend, the government should supposedly reconsider restrictions to exports of raw hides and wet blue, formerly imposed to support Colombian tanners and manufacturers. Such is the petition Carlos Gomez, director of Acesgan (the association […]
Sustainability and digitalization as indispensable factors for the global footwear industry, today and for the future, for a production-management point of view as well for the relationship with one’s customers. Digitalization represents an opportunity, as well as a threat. These are the most important topics that will be discussed and developed between April 3rd and […]
Increased production presence in France. Employees increase at home. But costs have increased too, and for this they will need to raise product tags in the stores. On March 20, the presentation of the final Hermès financial statements was a riot of + signs: the brand was able to confirm a turnover in 2019 of […]
The French leather goods segment keeps on creating more jobs. SIS Group, business founded in 1983, announced it is planning on hiring between 120 and 150 new employees every year until 2021. Sophie Monet, human resources director for the company which manufactures for luxury brands, explained to francebleu.fr that “SIS is filled with orders from […]
It is a journey five-years long that saw the filing of the patent in 2014, the presentation at Salone del Mobile in 2017, the gradual penetration into high-end fashion market and, finally, the recognition of the Best APLF 2019 AWARDS for Advanced Process for Leather (where GER too received an award) at the last edition...
New chapter of the dispute between Rompa Leather and the city of Oost Gerle. The altercation between the Dutch tannery and the city’s administration where the tannery is located has reached the State Council, after Rompa Leather’s top management appealed the case which regards the outcome of an inspection. According to what recorded by Dutch […]
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Swedish Polestar brand, run by Volvo group, which is a manufacturer of electric cars, decided to make use of fabrics for the car interiors of their latest model, namely Polestar 2. We have no objection to that so far. Yet, the brand’s designers (we may consider them as Scandinavian competitors of Tesla, so to speak)...
