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)...
When it comes to ethology, they stress the importance of imprinting: that is, the very first perception between customer and car is the one that makes the difference. That is why leather plays a role of paramount importance. British designer Marek Reichman, chief creative officer and executive vice-president of Aston Martin, pointed that out while […]
“Breeders do play a part in the preservation of species: as a matter of fact, conservation plans rely on breeders, whose action is essential”. Such statement, issued by Koh Chon Tong, general manager of Heng Long, a tannery specialized in exotic skins, might come across as inappropriate to leather non-professionals. Yet, since in the luxury […]
Balenciaga and Arbre Magique are about to patch things up. The casus belli was about a key chain: that is the reason why Car Freshner Corporation and Julius Sämann Ltd, a North American manufacturer of the very popular air fresheners for cars, and the fashion brand, which is part of Kering group, started a legal […]
Launer, the bag brand most loved by Queen Elisabeth, increased its own turnover, in 2018, by 23%, as revenues reached 4 million British pounds. Compared to 2011 turnover, which amounted to around 1.5 million pounds, sales enjoyed a considerable boost by 167%. The brand did not want to make public its profits, as reported by […]
In 2018, Danish Ecco group achieved an outstandingly good performance: in fact, sales reached 1.31 billion euros (that is, +2.6%, compared to 2017) and profits before tax amounted to 201 million euros, therefore increasing by 9.1%. The group announced the retail channel went up, throughout the year, by 10%, while the online one enjoyed a […]
LaConceria is an editorial reality that for over a century, exactly since 1893, deals with consumption, market, economy, trade of the Italian and international leather. LaConceria is a digital newsmagazine in English. Its frequency is monthly LaConceria is a subscription weekly magazine circulated in about 2,000 paper copies and edited in digital format too. LaConceria […]
“Leather has turned from a comfortable pillar for ultra-luxury winter collections into a very light fabric for spring-summer ones”. The Financial Times cannot understand the quantity of leather found in the 2019 spring-summer catalogs: “And not only those of brands that boast a leather heritage, such as Tod’s, Gucci, Ferragamo and Loewe – the article […]
A 2018 (in general) to be remembered, but during which “destination leather” showed signs of slowing down. Lanxess, leader group in the chemical sector and manufacturer (also) of auxiliaries for the tanning sector, in 2018 recorded sales of 7.2 billion euro, up 10.2% compared to the 6.5 billion registered in the last year. Profit experienced […]
New Balance renews the iconic 997 by focusing on leather. The US footwear colossus has just launched a new high end version of the historic 997 in three colours and, most important, manufacturing them in bison leather of American origin, “soft and at the same time very durable”. This is the material chosen by New […]
Someone said that Chinese buyers were actively playing, just for precaution though: in other words, they were up to shopping today rather than doing it tomorrow, at higher prices perhaps. Somebody else closed the stand while confirming his early feelings: one of them, for example, was Iacopo Ceccatelli, from Incas Tuscan tannery: “Even though we […]
Due to high costs, fashion players are heading out towards other Far East countries; in addition, several Chinese small and mid-sized enterprises are about to face a heavy crisis. At the beginning of March, during the joint meetings of the Consultative Political Conference of Chinese people (CPPCC) and the people’s national assembly (NPC), China’s political […]
The socks model, a sports shoe with soft fabric upper, will soon be no longer fashionable: Jon Clark, chief executive officer of PrimeAsia leather tanning group, is quite sure about that. As reported by LeatherBiz portal, he made it public at the latest APLF edition, during an open meeting with Yves Morin, formerly president of […]
In the USA, they are remarkably increasing in number. In Italy, still they are not that well known, yet they might become popular in a short while: as evidence of it, think about the experience of Milanese Jacopo De Carli, which we told about in the issue n.1, 2019, of our new monthly magazine. We […]
Obuv Mir Kozhi, which is about to kick off in Moscow tomorrow, is likely to turn out to be very complicated, owing to difficulties that are affecting Italy’s exports towards the Russian market. Over 200 footwear and leather goods companies, coming from 13 countries, are going to exhibit their winter collections during the fair, on […]
