 Tandy will increase its retail stores in the US and overseas [premium content]
Specialist leather retail and wholesale group Tandy Leather Factory has reported an increase in sales for the quarter, ended December 31, of 13% to $15.6 million from $13.7 million for the fourth quar...
09/03/2010 16:08:00
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 Canadian brand chooses snake-effect leather for fashion industry first [premium content]
Canadian fashion brand NADA believes it will make fashion industry history when it uses a 3D film to launch its autumn 2010 collection, which uses reptile-effect leather in many of the pieces.The film...
09/03/2010 15:45:00
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 Canton Fair ready for 107th session [premium content]
The next session of the China Import and Export Fair (April 15-May 5), known as the Canton Fair, will be the 107th since the event began in 1957.The organisers describe it is an important channel of C...
09/03/2010 15:02:00
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 Micam shows signs of recovery [sample news]
The organiser of the Micam footwear event, the Italian Footwear Manufacturers’ Association (ANCI), has announced that the most recent edition of the fair, which ran from March 2–5, attracted 36,623 vi...
09/03/2010 15:01:00
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 Chad signs up for help [premium content]
Tunisia’s National Centre for Leather and Footwear (CNCC) has agreed to train a group of entrepreneurs from Chad in tanning, leathergoods and footwear manufacture.The centre’s facilities in the town o...
09/03/2010 15:00:00
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 Hermès to open new leathergoods workshop in Paris suburb [premium content]
Luxury leathergoods brandHermès has announced that it will create 1,000 new jobs at a leathergoods workshop that it plans to open on a 30,000 square-metre site atPantin, a suburb to the northeast of P...
08/03/2010 15:04:00
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China makes more leather garments, but exports fall [premium content]
Manufacturers of leather garments in China increased their output in 2009, but mostly to supply the domestic market.Garment manufacturers made 56.1 million pieces of apparel from leather in 2009, whic...
08/03/2010 15:03:00
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 Minister gives details of aid to leather industry [premium content]
India’s minister for commerce and industry, Jyotiraditya Scindia, has confirmed the details of an aid package that the government has put together for the country’s leather industry.In a formal statem...
08/03/2010 15:02:00
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 Fatal accident at tannery in Bangladesh [premium content]
Three workers have died in a tannery in Bangladesh and nine others have been injured by inhaling toxic fumes. The incident took place on March 5 at the Apex Tannery in the Hazaribagh area of the capit...
08/03/2010 15:00:00
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Bangladesh leather exports down [sample news]
The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) of Bangladesh has announced that the country’s total leather sector exports fell by 3.6% to $203.1 million between July and December 2009, from $210.8 million in the ...
08/03/2010 11:03:00
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