Lanxess’ sales in the first quarter were worth 1.8 billion, stable on the year 2018. But the industrial chemicals’ giant sees the flat performance as a reason to celebrate: because the market today, in comparison to that of a year ago, is going through “a weak phase”. The German group, moreover, has scored a positive […]
Depending on the point of view with which one looks at SECEX’s data (Brazil’s institute for Foreign commerce), the trend for the first four months of 2019 is either negative or very positive. ABIEC, the meat exporters’ association can be satisfied: sales abroad between January and April grew 3.1% in value (2.01 billion USD) and […]
There is a small laboratory in the heart of Chalco, an old neighborhood in Mexico City, where football is standing still at the time of Pelè. Here Jose Luis Rivera is continuing the tradition passed to him by his father-in-law, David Rivas, along with its leather handmade football shoes’ brand: Colomenero. Rivas made football shoes...
When researchers at Penn State University first looked at the artifact, they thought it to be a leather moccasin. The cave located in Bolivia’s Andes was being studied by researches as it was the location of an ancient sepulcher where, for centuries, grave robbers have been plundering funeral objects, leaving behind only objects of little […]
The news needs two different and subsequent interpretations. Let us look at the news story, to begin with. Louis Vuitton started the construction works to open a new leather goods factory in the municipality of Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule (situated in the department of Allier, in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes). The plant, which will extend across 6,000 […]
The first quarter of the year has not been amazing, but not so appalling either. From January to March 2019, Tod’s sales just reached 216.4 million euros. Therefore, they decreased by 4.3% at current rates of exchange and dropped by 5.7% at fixed rates of exchange, slightly below the average expectations of analysts, whose predicted […]
ECCO is a Danish footwear giant: together with the Design School Kolding, they developed and created a collection of shoes entirely made, 100%, by recycling leather scraps, marine plants and seaweeds. That is a cutting-edge project, whose unique peculiarity is going to get an award. In fact, at the Danish Design Award they appraised the […]
Watch out, leather is in the air: Air Transat announced on May 3rd that the business purchased 15 Airbus A321neoLR planes. The model, as communicated by the Canadian enterprise, offers performances in line with the company’s environmental efforts: it consumes 15% less fuel in comparison to previous Airbus planes, emitting 5,000 less tons of CO2 […]
The circularity of leather as (maybe) we didn’t yet imagine. Not so much for the fact that leather scraps are being used, but rather for the way they are being re-used. Hand and Sew, Canadian leather goods manufacturer based in Vancouver, decided to make the salvage of leather scraps its core business, utilizing, in fact, […]
What will happen to CHANEL after Karl Lagerfeld? In February, after the disappearance of the couturier, it was the question that everyone, in the fashion world and outside, was asking, even a bit preoccupied. Now everything has been revealed. CHANEL’s Cruise took place in Paris. Without considering the weight that pre-collections now have for luxury […]
No stimulus for local enterprises and financial policies that favor foreign investors more than local ones. These are the accusations made by local tanners to the Ethiopian government, as reported by local newspaper The Reporter Ethiopia, in an article that reads how a lot of representatives from various companies in the sector have, since Friday, […]
First a new factory in Arras, then one in Mâcon as well. Maroquinerie Thomas, a French leather goods group specialized in high-end outsourcing, keep expanding their business. After announcing the opening of a new production site, based in the Northern small town of Arras, they are now going to open a new factory in Mâcon, […]
Going on slowly. Successfully though. In 2018, Roche Bobois turnover increased by 5% on annual basis, therefore reaching 257 million euros. The flagship brand of the home furnishings French group accounts for 86% of the company’s turnover, mostly driven by its units based in Europe, the United Kingdom and North America. Cuir Center, whose brand […]
“We did not force Kanpur tanneries to shut down for environmental reasons, as they rather fostered a number of campaigns to create intentionally, on purpose, a lot of social concern about the issue. Moreover, still we have to assess the harmful effects of factories on the water of the river Ganges: in fact, they imposed […]
Relocation of Bangladeshi tanneries to the new district of Savar has been considerably affecting the national leather industry. First of all, in terms of overall turnover: in fact, the long-standing process to move tanneries away from the old production site, located in Hazaribagh, entailed a disruption of manufacturing activities. Secondly, it undermined employment as well: […]
Paris (could) declare war to everyone active in the fashion industry, if the brand is caught destroying unsold stocks. In France, as a matter of fact, the government is preparing a law that makes the mentioned process illegal. According to indiscretions published by WWD, Brune Poirson, France’s State Secretary and minister for ecological transition, is...
Fourteen exclusive pieces. And leather as the absolute star. In the spotlight, the collection developed by Berluti for Sotheby’s in view of an exceptional online sale entitled “Berluti: the art of craftmanship”, born precisely from the idea of celebrating the craftsmanship of the LVMH group brand’s craftsmen. There are featured: a leather backpack combined with […]
There are those who (very strongly) want it. And who, for the usual pseudoethical reasons, refuses them. The dilemma (if we can call it that) can be summarized as follows: yes leather armchairs or leather armchairs no? Diametrically opposed choices that call into question the British giant of movie theaters Vue, also owner of The […]
Leather invades the world of TV series. It is not the first time (fortunately). It won’t be the last (thankfully). Two of the most popular television sagas of the moment have bewitched the designers of some important brands, including the American designer John Varvatos who launched a new capsule collection, made up of 11 pieces, […]
After getting out of the Chapter 11 quicksand thanks to the new ownership, GST Autoleather is back to making investments. The US-based company specialized in the manufacturing of automotive upholstery has officially inaugurated its new production plant in China just a few days ago. The site, as reported by wardsauto.com, is located in the city […]
