24 April 2023 Investing in the Planet At Sadesa, we Invest In Our Planet daily. How? By continuously investing in different ways to keep making our leathers more and more sustainable. Sadesa’s low impact tanning process avoids damage to our environment, an essential responsibility. Our sustainability investments and plans focus on using less… Continue reading Investing in the Planet
21 April 2023 World Leather Day 2023 Key Questions about Leather answered by Leather Naturally Why is leather so important? There are many complicated messages about how to live more sustainably, but leather is NOT complicated. Simply put, without it, around 10 million tonnes would go to landfill. In a world where we are… Continue reading World Leather Day 2023 – Key Questions about Leather answered by Leather Naturally
21 April 2023 Outdoors – Options available with new Quechua hiking boot Decathlon outdoor brand Quechua has developed a new hiking footwear style, the MH500, as part of its spring-summer 2023 collection, offering the product with a low- or mid-height upper, as well as in an ultralight version, writes Footwearbiz. Quechua specialises in… Continue reading Outdoors – Options available with new Quechua hiking boot
21 April 2023 New rules for cattle and leather as EU passes deforestation law The European Parliament has approved a law to ban imports of beef, coffee and other commodities if they are linked to deforestation, writes Leatherbiz. An area larger than the EU was lost to deforestation between 1990 and 2020, according… Continue reading New rules for cattle and leather as EU passes deforestation law
21 April 2023 Best of APLF Awards 2023 – Winners of APLF Leather Dubai The winners of the Best of APLF Awards (BOAA) 2023 were announced during BOAA & Design-A-Bag Awards cocktail party on the second day of the three-day event. In 2004, the first BOAA was held to mark the 20th anniversary of APLF… Continue reading Best of APLF Awards 2023 – Winners of APLF Dubai Leather
20 April 2023 Leatherbiz Market Intelligence – Time to prepare for “a new era” Our latest Leatherbiz Market Intelligence newsletter is available now for subscribers to read. Image: It’s consumers who count. The days have gone when all hides would be made into leather and all leather made into finished products. In the… Continue reading Leatherbiz Market Intelligence – Time to prepare for “a new era”
20 April 2023 France – French leather sector responds to “consumption revolution” France’s leather sector has reported export revenues of close to €18 billion for 2022, an increase of 22% compared to the previous year and double the figure for 2015, writes Leatherbiz. On reporting these results, industry representative body, the Conseil National… Continue reading France – French leather sector responds to “consumption revolution”
20 April 2023 Redwood Comment – If the shoe fits, it should be leather Mike Redwood discusses the importance of exciting and trend-setting designs for leather to feature in the top-selling footwear of today, writes Dr Mike Redwood on ILM. The last couple of weeks have been a story of footwear. Former basketball… Continue reading Redwood Comment – If the shoe fits, it should be leather
19 April 2023 Strong growth in Q1 for Hermès despite currency fluctuations Hermès has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2023, achieving consolidated revenue of €3.38 billion, reports ILM. Consolidated revenue for the quarter was up by 23% at constant exchange rates and 22% at current exchange rates. Sales in… Continue reading Strong growth in Q1 for Hermès despite currency fluctuations
19 April 2023 Footwear – Europe loses presence in the manufacture of footwear in the last four decades In the mid-1980s, European footwear production represented more than a third of the total manufactured in the world. Currently, the old continent participates in the market with less than 3%, reports CueroAmérica. Shoe factory in Elche,… Continue reading Footwear – Europe loses presence in the manufacture of footwear in the last four decades
We bring leather, material and fashion businesses together: an opportunity to meet and greet face to face. We bring them from all parts of the world so that they can find fresh partners, discover new customers or suppliers and keep ahead of industry developments.
We organise a number of trade exhibitions which focus on fashion and lifestyle: sectors that are constantly in flux, so visitors and exhibitors alike need to be constantly aware both of the changes around them and those forecast for coming seasons.
