Fires in the Amazonia forest have been topic of great concern around the globe, because the South American tropical forest is an environmental matter that concerns the entire planet. But thinking of stopping the purchases of leather from Brazil is the wrong manner with which to resolve the issue: moreover, it’s “simplistic”. Maybe, so much […]
Groupe Bigard bought the majority shares of Nick Winters Group, company that has, within its divisions, a section that is specialized in the international commerce of tanning raw material, finished leather and animal protein. As reported by International Leather Makers, Nick Winters, founder of the company by the same name, enters the French company’s management […]
Words are important. They are extremely important, especially when we need them to describe meticulously a financial project we are most likely to talk about for a long while. More specifically, Rino Mastrotto, Matteo Mastrotto, his son, and Barbara Mastrotto, his daughter, are going to illustrate, in the following interview, the deal they signed with […]
Louis Vuitton roll out their new laboratory. In fact, yesterday the French luxury brand inaugurated their new plant, located in Beaulieu-sur-Layon, a few kilometres far from Angers. The facility, which is going to provide highly rewarding energy performances, will extend across a 6,000-square-metre area. Together with Michael Burke, chief executive officer of the fashion brand,...
VF Corp have recently stopped buying Brazilian leather while expecting their South American partners to provide them with new guarantees with regard to environmental sustainability. Well, such decision did not scare CICB, the association of Brazilian tanners, at all. Primarily, volumes of leather bought by the holding company (which is in control over a few […]
H&M announced their decision to suspend Brazilian leather purchase. As reported by Reuters press agency, Sweden’s fast fashion group made this choice because of “serious blazes, strictly linked to the livestock and farming industry, which are hitting part of the Amazon rainforest”. In the same way as American VF Corp holding, H&M set a “provisional […]
GER Elettronica have completed their own major transformation. In fact, Bruno Burato and Renato Visonà, historic business partners, decided to set a new management layout in their company. After appointing (nearly one year ago) Cesare Dal Monte as new general manager, they delegated the company’s operational and strategic control. In the meantime, they have become […]
How are British companies preparing for the possible no-deal Brexit? Many prepared for the hit by taking a stand to defend their revenue. The biggest (and very concrete) concern has to do with protecting one’s business from the devaluation of the UK pound. Three cases, narrated by Footwear News, demonstrate how the problem is particularly […]
Location: Fiermailano Rho. Date: October 2nd to the 4th. Objective: to tell the identity of “the leather material”. Its circularity. The event during which all of this will be possible will be the 97th edition of Lineapelle, during which, for the first time, there will be a space entirely dedicated to this goal (Pavillion 14). […]
Cotance will offer its support so that the 32 fashion leaders who have signed the Fashion Pact can achieve the established sustainability goals. Cotance, who’s aim is to keep European tanning associations together, announces it with a press release: “European leather shares these priorities and is committed to making its own contribution to achieving the […]
The leather industry cannot be held in any way responsible for fires in the Amazon rainforest, and for two reasons. First of all, because leather is only a by-product of zootechny. And second, because – at this very moment of the market – nobody in Brazil would benefit economically by setting fire to a rainforest […]
A slight growth for made-in-Germany footwear in the first semester. But, meanwhile, operators showed concern for their future while at their Gallery Shoes’ stands in Düsseldorf (September 1-3). During the usual closing press conference, BDSE (Federal Association of the German Footwear Retail Trade) and HDS/L (Federal Association of German Footwear and Leather Goods Industry), spoke of Germany’s...
Luxury leather goods brand Delvaux inaugurated its museum in Brussels on September 2nd, inside former military barracks occupied by the brand since 1994. Today, in the same building that houses the museum, at number 7 of Boulevard Louis Schmidt, are the study of design and the atelier of the brand. The exhibition, designed by Bob […]
English-speaking media have been realizing that something weird is going on in the fashion materials market: on the one hand leather, on the other hand its synthetic alternatives. It is no coincidence, perhaps, that Bloomberg, Fortune and The Independent all focused on the topic during August 2019. The analysis carried out by all of them […]
Nuuwai, a leather goods German brand, will be allowed to keep talking about its own accessories in terms of “apple leather” products: in other words, they are still entitled to use such term, “leather”, despite the fact that their materials have nothing to do with animal skin. Such was the ruling delivered, on August 20, […]
One 4 Leather, promoted by a group of 13 players in the leather industry, is a web portal that provides proper and correct information about leather for automotive. It is now online. “While the world is changing, everyone is more aware of the effects brought by consumptions and product choices – announced the promoters of...
Moving from Hollywood stars’ skin to Lamborghini seat leather. Dr. Woo, a cult tattoo artist based in Los Angeles, is renowned for his peculiar ability to pattern his own art after the personality of people who will wear his tattoos forever on their skin. That is why Lamborghini appointed him to make their Huracán EVO […]
When it comes to Hyundai cars, you take everything of them. The Korean car manufacturing company started a partnership with Zero+Maria Cornejo brand. The aim of such cooperation is to develop articles of clothing based on the concept of creative recycling. Whilst achieving the project, they have already carried out a collection made of 15 […]
VF Corp confirmed their decision to suspend purchasing Brazilian leather. In fact, as previously disclosed by Fernando Bello, CICB executive president, the US holding company, which is in control over a few brands, such as Timberland and Wrangler, has been demanding guarantees from suppliers about their product environmental sustainability. The statement As reported by Reuters […]
Last May, over 170 footwear players sent a letter to US President Donald Trump. Yesterday, over 200 companies signed one more letter to ask President Trump to remove 15% customs duty, which will enter into force on September 1, applied on a few footwear product categories made in China. Likewise, they also urged the White […]
