Conceria Antiba becomes 4.0 with a new 15,000 square metre factory equipped with interconnected machinery. This Tuscan company moved its headquarters from Santa Croce sull’Arno to Ponte a Egola, investing almost 15 million euros. The move took place gradually to arrive to the current complete industrial set-up in March 2022. This relocation doubled the production […]
The UN’s Global Compact is “the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative”. And today one more joins in: Gruppo Mastrotto. The tanning giant based in Vicenza, reads a note, joined the initiative because it’s “sure that a long, balanced and inclusive development, demands an economic plan founded on solid ethical basis that respect human dignity and […]
The new model of the 2.6 million hypercar by Horacio Pagani has chosen, for its interiors, materials developed by Dani. The third model of the series that began in 1999 by Automobili Pagani and Zonda, and follows the Huayra (2011), is called Utopia: it’s worth 2.6 million euro. For this project, the Veneto-based tannery created […]
Three projects for a “leather degree” land at Lineapelle 100. BCN Concerie (Santa Croce sull’Arno) accompanied three students on their final study path. It did so by providing them with the materials, as well as supporting them in their use. Collaborating with BCN Concerie were two young men who completed a three-year degree in Fashion […]
The premises are varied, as well as synergetic with each other. The result, in fact, is unequivocal: Chanel expects to grow in double figures again in 2022. Despite the fact that the international economic situation, where the winds of depression in consumption are blowing, is not the best. The credit goes to a coherent vision...
New purchase in the “made in Italy” environment for Holding Industriale (Hind). The Turin based investment company acquired, via Holding Moda, the majority of screen printer Seriscreen. This company based in Pian di Scò (Arezzo) and specialized in digital and UV printing on leather and textiles, is the 10th enterprise to enter the Holding Moda project. The […]
FGL International and Finikem, companies active in the chemicals for tanning segment and owned by Lapi Group, “will become one entity”, reads a press release. The two brands will remain on the market to give continuity, but the managerial activity will be optimized by integrating the two entities headquartered in Castelfranco di Sotto (Pisa). One […]
The tanning industry enters the textile game. Rino Mastrotto Group, controlled byNB Renaissance, purchased majority shares of Tessitura Oreste Mariani. The company headquartered in Giussano (Monza Brianza, near Milan), manufactures and sells textiles for fashion. Specifically: applications for accessories, leather goods and apparel. The agreement reached states that the Mariani family will retain a minority share and […]
There are a lot of expectations for this edition of Lineapelle, which begins tomorrow at Fieramilano Rho (closing on the 22nd). First: it’s the 100th time (excluding the editions modified due to Covid), that the leather, fashion and luxury chains enter the fair’s pavilions. 100 of these fairs, for an event that takes a reassuring […]
Italian leather split in half. The companies manufacturing for luxury brands smile, while those with their own brands are disappointed and concerned. It’s a polarization that must be kept in mind when evaluating data from the first semester of 2022 for the segment in Italy. The value of export is the only data-point to surpass...
Vietnam, Brazil, Spain and Portugal. Focusing on these countries, we take a trip to the footwear manufacturing hubs around the world. How did their export go during the first semester? The shifts of the supply chains caused by the pandemic and the increased prices are the main factors influencing the statistics. Moreover, the depreciation of...
Cotance’s Green Deal Leather kicked off on September 9th. The “Green Deal” aims to create a European tanning segment “with no adverse impacts”. Cotance, the Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community, and the union platform industriAll Europe, signed the agreement for the new project. Seven national leather associations are involved […]
The positioning of Dior’s leather goods is between that of Gucci and Chanel. It’s one of the most important strategies that allowed Dior to achieve success. The brand grew extremely quick since 2017, when LVMH acquired it in full. From 2.2 billion in 2017, Dior reached 6.6 billion in 2021, with the 8.5 billion-mark set...
Tapestry is focusing on “expressive luxury” to grow from the current 6.7 billion to 8 billion within 3 years. It will chase Gen Z customers but, more concretely, it will try to develop the revenue stream from handbags and small leather goods. And “speed up the streams from footwear and lifestyle products”, explained the US-based...
Once again, Prada is a forerunner in a trend that promises to be transversal (as well as momentous). That’s right, because from the upper echelons of the brand led by Patrizio Bertelli (in the photo, Imagoeconomica) and Miuccia Prada, the intention to add the IPO in Piazza Affari to the Hong Kong listing has been […]
What you can visit. What you can immortalise. What you can divulge. And what not. The rules of Gucci ArtLab are as interesting as the work that goes on in the Tuscan centre, “the link between the style office and production”, as CEO Massimo Rigucci calls it. Opened in 2018 in Scandicci, Gucci ArtLab employs […]
“There are some huge problems, but we will never leave Russia and Ukraine”. Lorenzo Salvatelli is the head of commercial activities at leather goods manufacturer Carlo Salvatelli, and that’s a summarized version of the thoughts that are shared by Italian companies that are facing the consequences of the war in Ukraine and the sanctions in Russia. “Nothing has...
Making a line of leather goods out of aeronautical leather scraps, including used seat covers. This is the activity of Domitille Roche Michoudet, who founded Atelier Méta (obviously no reference to the company that owns Facebook) in late 2020. Until a few days ago, she was selling her creations on the Internet, and now also […]
An exclusive event entitled “The Art of Making Fashion”. An occasion to launch and consecrate the active synergy between 7 fairs in the fashion and luxury industry. On Wednesday, September 7, in Milan, at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, “DaTe, Micam Milano, Mipel, The One Milano, Lineapelle, (belonging to the Confindustria Moda galaxy), HOMI Fashion&Jewels Exhibition and […]
Tod’s group puts the pandemic behind. During the first semester, the group’s main brand (Tod’s) was the best performing one: +21% at constant rates. As far as product categories go, accessories and leather goods did better than footwear: +41% and +10% respectively. “Maximum attention on the evolutions of costs tied to energy, logistics and raw...
