Pompeii keeps surprising. The restoration of the ancient tannery, discovered around 1873 under the ruins of the city buried by the eruption of Vesuvius, in 79 A.D., just entered its second phase. UNIC are supporting such restoration, which will bring to the set-up of an open-air museum, available for visitors. Yet, in the recent days, […]
IT IS A REALITY THAT “IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE IN FRANCE”, SAYS KERING. THE NEW ARTLAB OF SCANDICCI, THE “GREATEST INVESTMENT OF OUR HISTORY”, IS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MANUFACTURING CULTURE, THE ITALIAN ONE, WHOSE ARTISTIC INSPIRATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN PRAISED, BUT WHOSE INDUSTRIAL QUALITY IS OFTEN UNDERESTIMATED
Luxury brands did boost their creativity and imagination while choosing locations for their Cruise Collections 2019 fashion shows. Yesterday Gucci presented their Resort Collection, which took place in an old graveyard located on the Promenade Des Alyscamps, in Arles, in the south of France. One more original venue, full of gloomy allure, following the previous […]
Cotance, the European Confederation of national leather tanning associations, held their annual meeting, yesterday in Verona, to renew their presidency appointments. After being in charge for two years, German Thomas Bee (Schafstall Holding GmbH, right in the picture) is going to be replaced by Austrian Andreas Kindermann (on the left, in the picture), who takes […]
Although the past year was less positive than the previous ones, as pointed out by Gabriella Marchioni Bocca (President of Assomac), Italy confirmed its global leadership in the manufacturing of machines for the leather and footwear industry; in contrast, China has been slowing down, therefore losing some ground. Reading through the business trend report issued […]
Since tanneries were forced to close for nine straight days, at least 1 million hides and skins could not be processed. Although the overall situation is about to get back to normality in a week or so, damages might supposedly amount to 1,5 million leather units less. CICB, the association of Brazilian tanners, have drawn […]
South America is being on red alert owing to the critical juncture Alpargatas is currently dealing with. In fact, Brazil’s footwear giant have been remarkably cutting down jobs and productivity for a while at this point. The company has been directly involved in a complex financial deal, which led, last year, to the disinvestment of […]
In July 2016, they had stepped into the company, buying some capital shares. Slightly less than two years later, French Maroquinerie Thomas have entirely bought out Tuscan leather goods manufacturer B&G. As reported by Il Sole 24 Ore, the leather company, based in Lastra a Signa (for the records, they also run a manufacturing plant […]
Lectra multinational corporation have been scheduling their prospective development (along with a budget). In 2015-2016 two year period, they drew up the concept and started up their work focused on Industry 4.0; subsequently, in 2017, they implemented some experimental projects, directed at customers. Now, in 2018, they are introducing their early solutions, while gearing up […]
Richemont are about to create a new role in their own management, as they are going to appoint the Fashion & Accessories unit manager. Starting from next 1stJune, Eric Vallat will first take this brand new position and, as a new member of the company’s executive committee, he will directly report to Jèrôme Lambert, chief […]
The new plant, which extends across 3,500 square metres, is due to start working in a month or so. That is the new factory, built up by Nuti Ivo Group in Santa Croce upon Arno, for leather manufacturing by Nuti Ivo tannery. Top modern and advanced machinery, placed in the plant, will guarantee remarkable energy-saving […]
The leather tanning industry may create over one million jobs and may therefore become the second source of revenue in the country. In Nigeria, they do believe it: during the second edition of the local Leather Fair, which took place in Lagos, experts and professionals explored opportunities for development and innovation in the industry. Over […]
Last Saturday employees and managers of Industrie Chimiche Forestali were wearing a meaningful t-shirt. You could read on it: “We are invisible, though we are everywhere”. The Lombard company, headquartered in Marcallo con Casone, where they run their administration offices and production, “manufacture in Italy and export all over the world technical solutions to glue […]
Burberry’s financial statements, closed on March 31, went beyond expectations a great deal: adjusted profits increased by 5%, going up to 467 million pounds, therefore going better than expected (453 million pounds). In the same period, operating profits increased by 4%, going up to 410 million pounds, and net profits went up to 294 million […]
Fake products keep increasing, also because of the internet. According to 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report, issued by Research and Markets, the luxury industry’s estimated losses, caused by counterfeiting, in 2017 amounted to 98 billion dollars (83 billion euros). Over 31% of them, that is 30,3 billion dollars (25,7 billion euros), come from the web. […]
Marten Hoon, analyst at Deloitte, opened UITIC 20th edition, which went on in Porto for two days. Yet, actually, his speech also gave the audience some valuable hints to understand the gist of the event and get right directions: innovation, that is, readiness to take up “exponential technologies and emerging business models”, is not just […]
Brazil’s leather exports have been collapsing with regard to value. In fact, in April Brazilian raw material exports considerably decreased, in terms of value, -15,12%, compared to last year same period. Earnings coming from sales reached 137 million dollars. Such data have been provided by the Secreteria de Comércio Exterior (SECEX), the Brazilian government agency […]
Hanging on such business trends, Brazilian Marfrig group, one of the top players in the meat industry worldwide (in Brazil they attend to 23% of overall national slaughtering), may well be confident about their prospective financial expansion. Waiting for further good news then. In fact, accomplishments achieved in 2018 first quarter are brilliant. The group’s […]
Bizzarri and Michele are gearing up to climb on top of luxury. On the other hand, Louis Vuitton stronghold lies on sound grounds, and may still expand their business to a considerable extent. Such is the challenging duel to become the top luxury brand, which is also a competition between two French giants: LVMH versus […]
Tod’s sales have been decreasing, still “are fulfilling expectations”. In the first quarter, the revenues of the group, run by Diego Della Valle, reached 226,1 million euros (-5,2% at current rates of exchange and -1,8% at fixed rates of exchange). “Accomplishments achieved in the quarter have been fulfilling our expectations, but we know that still […]
