The luxury context is good, as a matter of fact: according to the forecast, provided by Bain&Co, the luxury market, as to personal articles, will be increasing, by the end of 2018, by 6% at fixed rates of exchange; its overall turnover will account for 260 billion euros. More specifically, the consulting and analysis company […]
A wind of property transfer is blowing around the machinery and technology business as well. In fact, Comelz, “a worldwide leading manufacturer of cutting machines for footwear, leather goods and automotive industry”, based in Vigevano, announced the buyout of Lombard Camoga, “a leading company specialized in the manufacturing of splitting machines for the most prestigious […]
China is ready to invest in the leather business in Tanzania, specifically in a new industrial site that is due to be built up thanks to Chinese capital assets: the industrial area will host a big tannery for footwear, accessories and upholstery. A few delegations, composed by entrepreneurs coming from Guangzhou and Dongguan, have recently […]
Here we go again. As reported by leatherbiz.com, Turkey is supposedly going to apply a new duty, for the records 50 cents per kilo, on the export of bovine wet blue. In doing so, Turkish government, which has already adopted protectionism measures regarding their tanning raw hides and skins, would toughen up duties to apply […]
Peter Bird has bought out Clayton & Sons again. The news has been reported by British press media: allegedly, Bird, former manager of the company headquartered in Chesterfield, carried out a big buyout project. Last 20 September, the top management of Clayton & Sons, which belongs to Clayton Leather historic group, appointed Emily Ball and […]
“We did work a long time with the University of Northampton to detect and develop a number of potential areas of mutual interest and advantage for both parties involved in the project and their own clients. We are going to grab valuable opportunities, deriving from such cooperation. Our aim is to take advantage of them […]
Peru is going to invest 30 million dollars in the livestock and farming industry. Minister Gustavo Mostajo made it public and pointed out that fund allocation primarily aims to foster livestock farming and, subsequently, production of milk, meat and leather as well. The money funds, allocated by the government, will enable farmers to grow over […]
On October 24, in the morning, residents of Ipioca, a very beautiful beach area located to the north of Maceiò, woke up with a rather weird surprise: they found, on the beach, 7 packages of finished leather. The parcels, quite unusual indeed, which were rotted (and stinking too, as reported by local press) because of […]
A model is posing before shelving racks, in a store, where you can see hundreds of leather samples piled up on the pallets. He is wearing leather trousers, as well as leather shoes; he is holding a leather jacket under his arm. Likewise, another model holds a leather small suitcase while wearing leather shoes and […]
THE MARKET CONFIRMS ITS TANTRUM-THROWING ATTITUDE AN PROVES INNOVATION TO BE AND EVOLUTION AND CULTURAL INPUT. THE CONCRETENESS OF STYLISTIC TRENDS FOR WINTER 19/20 IS SHOWN AND THE CAPACITY TO CREATE “IDEAL OPPORTUNITIES TO COMPARE THE NETWORK” ISN’T MISSING. WELCOME TO MOST INTERNATIONAL AND DYNAMIC BUSINESS SHOW FOR THE SUPPLYING SEGMENT OF THE FASHION AND LUXURY INDUSTRY
“We were already actively playing in the Spanish market: we are here to expand our business now. Here we can meet several interesting medium and medium-high segment brands. Spain’s footwear business looks more rewarding than the one in Italy or in the United States”. Luigi Barone, from Barone Pellami, based in Naples, shows his interest […]
Trumpler Group announced their forthcoming acquisition of Langro-Chemie Theo Lang, a company headquartered in Stuttgart and specialized in chemistry for leather finishing. The deal, which is due to be effective starting from 1 January 2019, will enable Trumpler to acquire all the employees of Langro-Chemie, who will be still positioned on the market as trusted […]
Such is the plan: to double their manufacturing plants aiming to augment by 50% their production volumes. JBS Couros, the leather tanning division of the Brazilian meat giant, are planning to enhance their factories based in Vietnam. As reported by Furniture Today, the main aim of the group is to increase their supplying capacity for […]
All crazy for sneakers. People have a real obsession for them. It is no use recalling it, since everybody knows, at this point, that training shoes have become a must-be footwear model. All manufacturers must add them in their collections: hard luxury brands as well as the ones actively playing in the fast fashion industry. […]
They have been talking about it for months, at this point. The question is: how much does the overwhelming power of sneakers affect the present and the future of the leather for soles niche business? It is not easy to work it out. Cuoio di Toscana, a leading consortium specialized in manufacturing leather for footwear […]
At Lineapelle winter 2019/2020 has already come up. Style trends, regarding materials, fabrics and synthetics, accessories and components, were presented during the recent edition of the most important business show in the international leather industry, which took place in Milan last month, on September 25-27. During the fair event, exhibitors spotlighted samples and suggestions while […]
Luen Thai Holdings, headquartered in Hong Kong, has recently bought out their competitor, Universal Elite Holdings. The deal price was 28 million US dollars. Thanks to such acquisition, they created a new outsourcing giant, manufacturing leather bags and currently hiring 50,000 employees in 7 plants (Luen Thai runs some factories in Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines […]
A “slight slowdown”, which had been predicted by financial analysts, occurred. Likewise, analysts were also right about the potential business expansion of LVMH group in the first nine months of the year and during the third financial quarter, whose outcomes, in terms of revenues, were made public yesterday immediately after the closing of the stock […]
The most relevant accomplishment achieved by Stella McCartney is the free employment of synthetic fabrics in the haute couture industry. The bad thing is that now, “18 years later”, “fish have such synthetics inside their belly”. As a matter of fact, the fashion designer, who is very well known for her extremist position against the […]
CNC is the Conseil National du Cuir (the Leather National Council), the French confederation that gathers and represents, in France, “9,400 companies and 130,000 workers, currently employed in the industry of leather, tanning, footwear, leather goods, gloves manufacturing and supply”. The whole business or so. In the past days they made public a report over […]
