At present they have got 15 plants, all located in France, with 3,136 employees? in total. They are about to open a new one at L’Allan, in the region of Franche-Comté, shortly. Still those factories are not sufficient to meet their manufacturing needs. Hence Hermés is planning to open two more, which are due to […]
Change of ownership for Belstaff. German Jab Holdings group, the owner of the trademark, has sold the brand to British Ineos, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of chemicals and oil products. The transfer has not been a plot twist though: in fact, it is part of the fashion brands dismissal plan previously announced by […]
The 48th edition of OBUV, Russian footwear major fair, took place at Moscow Expocentre on October 24-27. Among exhibitors, several leather goods companies participated as well. There we go with highlights: buyers who turned up at the exhibition showed some interest, still their purchasing, with regard both to footwear and bags, was not that remarkable. […]
One of the members of the Customs Union carries out protectionism policies: it doesn’t make sense, does it? Turkey will hear out the European Commission, as it liaises with national Governments which are involved in the situation. Wet-blue leather export stop, approved by Turkish government at the end of August, was not popular at all. […]
In the third quarter sales went up by 10% on annual basis, up to 5 billion dollars. Such outstanding sales performance, along with remarkable incomes (net revenues up by 38%, net profits increasing by 12%, as margins moved up from 8% to 8,2%), enables Lear Corporation, top manufacturer of leather for car interiors, to upgrade […]
1,578 solar panels will cover a quarter of the energy demand of the tannery. On October 25 Oukro, a Dutch company specialised in calf salted hides, activated their solar panels: such investment is part of the plan, supported by Apeldoorn city council, which aims at shifting to renewable energy sources. “Our choice is very important […]
Dr. Martens’s profits are growing a great deal. British brand’s revenues increased by 25%, that is 290,6 million pounds (about 325 million euros) in the business year closing on 31 March 2017. Such speeding up was driven by their brilliant performance in the Asian markets, South Korea and Japan on top. Most remarkably in Japan […]
Rubens Bressanin is the man who’s supposed to revive French brand Stephane Kélian. The Venetian designer, who runs, along with Luciano Ferraresso, the Stra RubensLuciano studio, where they make collections for a number of brands, around 40, has been appointed, as art director, to relaunch the historic French brand which is currently owned by Groupe […]
The 48th edition of OBUV Mir Kozhi, the exhibition organized by Bologna Fiere and Assocalzaturifici, is about to open at Moscow Expocentre. It is due to close on Friday. 220 brands, coming from 12 countries, will take part in the fair which will house their collections on an area of about 4,800 square metres. There […]
Expectations are considerable: to manufacture 90,000 to 100,000 skins and 40,000 hides a year; to increase their staff from 90 (they started with 45) up to 160 units; to redouble their turnover in a few years. On Thu 12 October Kering Group has officially inaugurated their new factory at Tannerie de Périers, a tannery which […]
“Production designers consider leather scraps to be little valuable, yet leather is a precious material”. Not to be wasted then. Christopher Bailey, fashion designer at Burberry, expounds the concept on which the English brand has based their joint action with Elvis & Kresse, a leather goods company, headquartered in London, specialised in manufacturing high-end accessories […]
How can a 1,500 USD worth couch possibly turn, in 6 years, into a ruin “seemingly coming from a war zone”? An American customer (Alan) inquired at WJCL network, as he pointed out that when purchasing it, the item was displayed in “genuine leather”; then he found out that its upholstery was actually made of […]
Our claims do not overreach: we just want leather to be protected, as much as milk is. That’s the gist of the request submitted to the European Commission by Cotance, the European union of tannery national associations. The new request, since Cotance had already sent a message to EU councils at the beginning of the […]
In September Brazilian leather export went up as for volumes (+7,5%, 16,1 million square metres on the whole), though it decreased in terms of value (-4,4%, that is 144 million dollars). The trend slightly turns around, compared to August, when both volumes and value were going down (-3,5% and -5,7% respectively), and roughly lines up […]
At least 60% of raw hides manufactured in Zimbabwe are bound to go rotten, as no export policies are carried out in the country and manufacturing industry does not keep up either. Hence LMAC, the livestock and meat national council, asked government to review tax on leather export. “Such duty was implemented to support domestic […]
A golden quarter (above expectations) for LVMH. The French fashion giant registered 10.38 billion Euros in the third quarter of 2017 under the guide of Bernard Arnault. Organic growth of 12% in a year for the group, which is in line with the +13% and +12% of the first two quarters, doubled that of the […]
The following is a recent and famous story. Year 2013: the French giant PPR, which owns many brands among which is Gucci, decides to change its name in ‘Kering’, because they say in Paris, “the ker root of the word means ‘home’ in Breton, while in English Kering sounds like ‘care’, ‘caring’. We believe that […]
GST Autoleather explained yesterday how it ended up with 200 million USD of debt: downturn of the market and impacts that services such as Uber have had on the industry. Yet, according to news coming from the Unites States, there seem to be other reasons why the US-based group is on the verge of bankruptcy. […]
Kenya’s government can’t get enough of protectionism. At the presentation for the leather cluster’s economic development (period going from 2017-2022), government officials explained that, starting in mid-2018, a fiscal exemption on raw and semi-finished hides may be approved by the government. Opposite to that is the thought on exports. In fact, Nairobi’s government plans on […]
Government imposed restrictions on illegal slaughtering of animals by tanneries has had an immediate and dramatic effect on leather exports. “H&M and Inditex (Zara) have reduced orders’ amount, as they fear our factories will have difficulties in getting the materials”, said M. Rafeeque Ahmed, one of the main shoe-makers in Chennai to the local press. […]
