“By selling to Chanel, I gave continuity to the company”. These are the words of Mario Biasutti, who sold leather goods company Mabi International to Chanel. In 2019, the French fashion brand had entered the company with headquarters in San Daniele del Friuli, taking over 40% of the capital. Now, Chanel rises to 100%, investing...
“The market is hesitant”, says Mauro Bergozza, CEO of Bergi, Arzignano-based company specialized in manufacturing machinery for the tanning industry. According to Bergozza (in photo on the left with his brother Alberto), operators want to invest, but the context pushes them to caution. The higher interest rates aren’t favoring expenses and investments. Bergi’s CEO says tanners...
While the world (fashion and otherwise) calls for caution, there are still those who dare to dare. The fashion world proposes everyday looks of unexaggerated elegance, the so-called “quiet luxury”. Well, Rick Owens swept the mood with intense and energetic colours, together with the brand’s typical total black, and almost entirely leather constructions. The sculptural...
How useful is communication for talent acquisition? How much do young people know about what goes on inside a shoes or leather goods’ plant? We looked into these topics on number 9 – 2023 of our monthly La Conceria, titled Comunicazione. Throughout the article “Mostrarsi per Assumere” (show yourself to get hired), we discuss the...
All star bags. Star architects and famous designers are invited to design their dream bag. Which they then produce in Italy. To enrich the collection of Up To You Anthology, a brand that creates unique bags designed by the world’s most visionary talents in architecture, design and art. Zaha Hadid Design and David Chipperfield among...
The data are incontrovertible. In the eight years between 2015 and 2022, Colombia’s leather industry has seen its opening to the world get smaller and smaller. Foreign sales, report data from the Ministry of Tourism and Economic Activities (MinCIT), dropped by an average of 8.5% per year. Seeing values dwindle dangerously: Colombia has dropped from […]
Thomas Stöllner‘s research team from the German Mining Museum in Bochum-Leibniz has discovered a child’s shoe, complete with linen laces, dating back over 2,000 years. And he did so in an area where rock salt mining was already taking place in the Iron Age. Finding ancient leather shoes during archaeological excavations brings to light not […]
LVMH Métiers d’Art isn’t stopping. The “community” of suppliers of the French group has gotten even bigger with the acquisition of a new tannery: Spanish Grupo Verdeveleno, which was already showcasing its products inside the space that LVMH Métiers d’Art occupied at Lineapelle, was already a supplier. Verdeveleno joins Heng Long, Masoni (of which LVMH...
A bluff. And, as is often the case with bluffs, short-legged. Just a few weeks have passed since Apple‘s “veg turn”. In order to speed up the achievement of its carbon neutrality targets, it has (among other things) removed leather from the materials of its accessories. A move more useful for marketing than for industrial […]
Leather UK launches a guide to buying leather. A young guide, since it specifically targets Gen Z. It is entitled “A Guide to Buying Leather”. It includes information to “provide young buyers with the hard facts to overcome meaningless marketing terms and navigate the minefield of leather misinformation”. Some instructions in the guide are: how […]
Cotance’s Leather Traceability Cluster, created to align the world’s traceability systems for leather around the world, met at Lineapelle one year after being formed. LTC looks to 2025, when the EUDR will be in force (forcing any leather sold in the EU to be certified no-deforestation). That means it can’t come from livestock farms located...
The context is what it is. In one word: concerning. Italy’s leather fairs tried to liven the situation, as they took place in Milan last week: Micam, Mipel and The One, for finished products. Lineapelle and Simac Tanning Tech for raw materials and technology. All of them, in their own way, did well. Simac Tanning...
The edition that has just gone into the archives, writes Lineapelle, “hosted 1,330 exhibitors and welcomed a 25% increase in the number of professional operators compared to the September 2022 edition”. Italian visitors grew by 26%, “+22% those from abroad, coming from 109 countries”. The attendance trend showed “a particular dynamism of visitors from France...
Over 40,000 visitors came to Micam, Mipel, The One Milano and Homi (Fieramilano Rho, 17-20 September). Organizers communicated that the growth from last year’s edition was +21%, bringing the number of visitors to 42,273. An increase dictated by foreign buyers, for the most part. Among the countries with the most representatives were Spain, France and...
Scottish Leather Group has invested 14 million pounds to build a new tannery. To open its production site, the group took 7 years and defines the project as “historic”. The investment is “part of the continuous effort to increase quality, sustainability and traceability standards”. The new tannery is located in Bridge of Weir, near Paisley. […]
From 2019 to 2021 (without considering 2020 as statistically irrelevant due to lockdowns), work accidents in European tanneries decreased 16%. In Italy we know that from 2003 to today, they dropped 60%. Statistics are useful to better understand the results obtained in terms of workplace safety, and even more so to be able to identify […]
Merging to beat Chinese competition. This is the main objective of the merger between the tanneries Viposa and Vancouros. This is how Viva was born, a Brazilian company with a turnover of around EUR 600 million per year. The announcement comes after five years of negotiations and six joint ventures. The new reality will have...
There is more movement in leather goods than in footwear. The large luxury groups enjoy more tailwind than the independents and, above all, of the players in the lower segments. In the leather market, a chess game is being played: the economic figures are negative and for the tanneries, moving the right pawns, in terms […]
Basic materials, soft nappa more or less thick, leathers with a natural sheen or more “pushed”, fluid, liquid. From naturalness to experimentation, from sporty casual to extreme processing. The trends for the winter season 2024/25 outlined by the Lineapelle Fashion Committee, under the title “Metamorphosi”’, call for a transformation, a change of point of view....
The slowdown was present even at the end of 2022, and it was confirmed during the first half of 2023 on the same basis (inflation, lower demand and geopolitical concerns). Lineapelle’s Market Insights show a complex period for the tanning segment around the world which knows very few exceptions. Italy The main indicators show the first...
