The appointment with Expopele 2019, the event organised on April 11th and 12th by APIC (the Portuguese tanning association) at the Museu du Curtume in Alcanena, is approaching. During the two days in the Lusitanian capital of leather, the international players in the supply chain will be able to compare issues such as identity, styles […]
Brazilian leather business gets off on the wrong foot in 2019. In fact, in the first two months of the year, exports of raw hides and skins decreased, in terms of value, by 24.5%, compared to the same period of 2018. As for volumes, overall, from January to February Brazil exported 31.2 million square metres […]
Pakistan’s exports of leather and leather goods keep decreasing. Such is the scenario according to the latest data, made public by Pakistan’s Federal Bureau of Statistics, about the last 8 months of the financial year. From July 2018 to February 2019, exports of “hides and leather finished products” have been driving a 573 million dollar […]
If Bangladeshi tanneries managed to achieve international standards, they would become one of the most important international players in the leather industry. Such is the firm opinion of Professor M Abu Eusuf, from University of Dhaka, and Abul Kalam Azad, president of the Tannery Workers Union: the two of them, who are experts in this […]
So much history lies behind the baseball gloves worn by Pittsburgh Pirates, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals. So much leather as well. Last March, 28, it kicked off the new season of the Major League Baseball (MLB), which is the American baseball “Premier League”. The players of the three teams, mentioned above, wear in […]
“Leather is not as good as it used to be. Ten years ago the thing that worried me most was the training of artisans. Today my biggest concern is the quality of materials, and this is where we need to invest”. Speaking with the Financial Times, Axel Dumas, 48 year-old CEO of Hermès, raises the […]
“When we use a part of an animal, we are not doing something abnormal, but we are continuing a tradition started by humanity in prehistory. What is new and bad is to use oil to make PVC and other materials: something that started 50 years ago and that is polluting the planet massively. If you […]
Revenue falls while net profits remain stable. Pittards, British brand active in the manufacturing chain of leather gloves, leather goods and leather car interiors, has published its financial data regarding the year that ended on December 31st, 2018. Sales reached 33.34 million euro, down from the revenue of 2017 of 35.4 million, while net profits […]
“The truth is that I am not sure there will be a fourth generation of the Portolano family to continue making gloves”. When discussing the matter with La Prensa, local newspaper, Sebastiàn Portolano doesn’t only refer to the crisis that has affected the Argentinian market as of lately. He also talks about the vocation for...
The Vàrzea Grande plant (Mato Grosso) has the production capacity to handle 2,000 bovines per day. And now Marfrig, Brazilian giant operating in the red meat and leather industry, which bought controlling interests of BRF last December, takes charge of the latter with a strategy that, according to the holding company, aims at optimizing the […]
The reduction of export duties brings Zimbabwe’s raw hides market back to life. The African government’s Finance Minsitry decided to lower the duties on raw hides’ exports in 2019, and, three months later, the first results are flowing in. Reneth Mano, member of the consulting council of Livestock and Meat Industry, explained to online portal […]
LaConceria is a publishing project that will appeal to all operators of the leather value chain: – Slaughterhouses, raw materials, brokers, traders, producers of technology and machinery, chemicals, services – Tanneries and their partners – Footwear, leather goods, clothing manufacturers, upholstered furniture and automotive sector, designer labels in the fashion industry and luxury – Retailers, […]
The video, made public in 2009, is somehow bound to open an investigation. In Shandong market, China, some pitiless workers take raccoons out of their cages and, after beating them up on their head and hitting them to the ground, to stun them, skin them alive. Animal-rights activists have been watching and video recording everything […]
While celebrating their return to Wall Street, Levi’s top managers have been facing, at the same time, one more problem. For the records, on March 20, 35 years after the company delisting, which took place in 1984, they listed again the denim and cowboy apparel brand at the New York Stock Exchange. That is part […]
Why do sneakers by Louis Vuitton cost up to 1,600 US dollars? Jian DeLeon, head editor of Highsnobiety portal, answered the question, while telling about his visit to Louis Vuitton’s Manufacture De Souliers, based in Fiesso d’Artico. Fast fashion sneakers recall, in their shape and look, luxury sneakers, though both quality and price are hugely […]
First, they check leather; then, they cut and sew it, and subsequently assemble footwear spare parts. Ultimately, they make it finished. Journalist David Celdran, from ANC portal, took some pictures and wrote down a few short descriptions of the multiple processing stages at Calzaturificio Santoni (Santoni shoe factory). After visiting their manufacturing laboratory based in […]
Pedro Garcia, a Spanish brand, aims to augment its turnover thanks to online sales. They also rely on Italy’s market, the fourth most important after the United States, Asia and Middle East. The company was founded in 1925 by the grandfather of Mila (chief executive officer) and Pedro Garcia (creative director), the brothers who took […]
In the internet, one can really sell and buy everything, including entire tanneries. Such is the proposition in a few web platforms. On top of hundreds of advertisements about machinery for processing leather in the tanning industry, someone is also trying to sell his own business: that is why one can find facilities, pallets stacked […]
One year after the duty increase the government’s chest doesn’t have a penny more than before. This is happening in Kenya, where in June 2018 the government approved a duty between 25% and 35% on the value of shoes – or 10 USD per unit -, with the goal of helping the local segment and […]
Over the last 15 months, the price of Colombia’s tanning raw material has been decreasing by 35%. Based on such negative trend, the government should supposedly reconsider restrictions to exports of raw hides and wet blue, formerly imposed to support Colombian tanners and manufacturers. Such is the petition Carlos Gomez, director of Acesgan (the association […]
