A summer filled with large operations for French luxury giant Chanel. The brand, according to lesechos.com, has completed its acquisition of Tanneries Haas (which began in 2012). Eichoffen-based Haas specializes (with another handful of transalpine tanneries), in veal leather and employees 115 people and has 41 million euro of revenue”. In 2017, Haas reached production […]
The numbers come from APICCAPS (Portuguese Footwear, Components, Leather Goods Manufacturers’ Association), and it was published in the yearly edition of World Footwear Yearbook. Summarizing the findings: global footwear production in 2017 is once again growing, after a flat 2015/2016 period. The global production’s output last year was of 23.5 billion pairs, 2% more than […]
If the hosts aren’t positive, then the tradeshow can’t be positive. All China Leather Exhibition, the leather fair that took place inside Shanghai’s International Expo Centre (August 29-31), has felt the doubts about the Chinese tanning sector throughout all three days. As shown by CLIA’s numbers, reference association for the entire leather market of Beijing, […]
Helsinki’s Fashion Week organizers managed, in one instance, to prove themselves antidemocratic, unfair towards the public, and very misinformed with regards to the actual balance present in the fashion industry’s supply chain. This is Cotance’s (European Confederation of the Leather Industry) accusation against Evelyn Mora, the founder of the event and a high-ranking person in […]
More than 100 VIP guests, representing all levels of production and stakeholders in the leather supply chain will be present at the 2-panel debate. Cotance, European Confederation of the Leather Industry, and IndustriAll (Union for Cotance’s fields), have organized the final conference for the Due Diligence for healthy workplaces in Tanneries on October 9th in […]
New entry in the fashion chain group ZDHC (Roadmap to Zero Programme) that counts over 100 members now. Communicating its decision to enter is SSIP (Italian Leather Research Institute – Experiment lab for leather and tanning agents). SSIP explained in a note that “it supports the vision of the program to create a more sustainable […]
A showcase of ornaments and complementary furniture objects made with leather, to shoe the French public the stylistic value and quality of Italian leather. UNIC – Italian Tanners’ Association flies to Paris for Maison & Objet (September 7–11), a tradeshow dedicated to design and lifestyle. The Italian Tanners’ Association will be present with 17 products […]
Total turnover for the Chinese leather, fur, and leather goods’ segment is growing in the first semester: including the businesses that have revenue of at least 3 million USD per year, total business done reaches 87 billion USD, which is 4.3% more than the previous year. What decreased is the growth rate, now 2.3% lower […]
Kering’s biannual incomes have been enjoying a considerable boost thanks to Gucci’s performance. In fact, in the first six months of the year, the group’s turnover has been increasing by 26,8%, reaching 6,43 billion euros. Such outstanding results have been mostly driven by record accomplishments achieved by the Tuscan fashion house, whose revenues went up […]
Fashion soundly drives LVMH’s business success. In fact, in 2018 first six months, the luxury French giant’s sales increased by 10% on annual basis, therefore reaching 21,8 billions euros, in terms of revenues, and 4,6 billion euros (+28%) in terms of profits. The holding made known that their Fashion & Leather Goods unit has been […]
The future of leather, fashion and luxury industry is a work in progress. It is due to start officially on September 25-27, at Fieramilano Rho, during Lineapelle95. The fair event is going to open a brand new space, fully dedicated to the most innovative, though actual, frontiers of research over materials and processes. Lineapelle Innovation […]
Automotive business keeps running fast. In fact, production of accessories (leather vehicle interiors, to begin with) enables top players to enhance their profits and carry out new investment projects. French Faurecia ended 2018 first half-year period by achieving very rewarding accomplishments: overall sales nearly reached 9 billion euros (8,9 for the records), therefore increasing by […]
South African ostrich unit of Kein Karoo International Leather, a meat group also in charge of leather tanning activities, and Mosstrich group are about to carry out a merger soon. Negotiations are already well underway. As reported by Die Hoorn, a South African daily newspaper, the board of directors of both enterprises approved the merger […]
Over the last 30 months, in Argentina 7,500 plants, manufacturing leather goods and accessories, shut down; as a consequence of that, 70,000 jobs have gone lost. Throughout 2018 first half-year period such haemorrhage did not stop: 70 factories have been definitely closed, and around 3,000 workers are now unemployed. These data, supplied by CIMA, the […]
The name of Siberia’s hub is Novosibirsk Technopark. Here they have implemented a few patents for processing fish skins: all of them are based on the employment of organic tannins whose environmental footprint is considerably low. The first experimental project, which dates back to 2015, was designed by two students, coming from Technopark Summer School: […]
The challenge of the future can be faced in various ways. Lineapelle chooses to do it by adding to its exhibition proposal the exploration of what will be the new scenarios and the new horizons of the tanning industry and of the whole fashion system. A challenge that is defining its codes. During the next […]
Ball is in Milan’s court now, as Lineapelle 95th edition is coming up, on September 25-27, following its sneak preview in New York, which took place at Metropolitan Pavilion on Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th. A number of selected exhibitors, 125 in total, took part in the fair event. “Many visitors showed up, as usual […]
Hermès is doing beyond expectations, better than anyone could possibly forecast. At the end of 2018 first half-year period the brand’s consolidated revenues increased by 11%, at fixed values, and went up by 5% at current rates of exchange, compared to 2017 same period, therefore reaching 2.853 billion euros. In the first six months of […]
Over the last days, in Ho Chi Minh City India’s consulate in Vietnam promoted a meeting: some corporate representatives of India’s CLE (Council for Leather Exports), along with some delegates from LEFASO (Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association) took part in it. That was the aim of the meeting: Indian tanneries want to increase their […]
Ironically enough, over the last two-month period, from April to May, India’s export of buffalo meat increased by 15%, in terms of volumes, and went up by 10% with regard to incomes: such data are provided by APEDA, India’s department of agricultural and processed food products. Despite that, the industry is not in high spirits, […]
