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Leather Leaders - Manuel Ríos Navarro

Our conversation, in its entirety, with new COTANCE president, Manuel Ríos Navarro, which took place at Lineapelle in Milan in September 2021. Here, M...

Leather Leaders: Episode Eight - Federico Brugnoli

Federico Brugnoli explains why his thinking around lifecycle assessment (LCA) has changed and why he thinks it’s not advisable to try to use a single...

Leather Leaders: Episode Seven - Luis Zugno

Dr Luis Zugno, president of IULTCS, talks to World Leather about his 45 years in the industry, his reflections on a turbulent first year at the head o...

Leather Leaders: Episode Six - Tom Schneider

In this episode, we present our recent interview with Tom Schneider, the founder of ISA TanTec. In discussion with World Leather editor, Stephen Tiern...

Dog’s breakfast at Tiffany’s

The saga, so far, of LVMH’s on-off-on-off attempts to acquire New York-based brand Tiffany’s.

Leather Leaders: Episode Five - Andreas Kindermann

Since 2008, Andreas Kindermann has been chief executive of Wollsdorf Leather, a specialist producer of leather for steering-wheels, furniture upholste...

Scottish Leather Group and its new initiative: ‘Sustainable By Nature’

On launching a new sustainability initiative in June 2020, Scottish Leather Group (SLG) made public six commitments that it says will help it establis...

Leather Leaders: Jon Clark

Tanning group PrimeAsia has leather manufacturing facilities in Huangjiang in China and in Ba Ria-Vung Tau in Vietnam. These tanneries have a combined...

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In late 2019, the president of Portugal’s main leather industry body, APIC, Nuno Carvalho, published an article in the main national newspaper strenuo...

Leather and the coronavirus

A discussion among  members of the World Leather team over the impacts the coronavirus or Covid-19 outbreak had had on the global leather industry by...

How changes in meat consumption will affect the leather sector

Reflections on ‘Veganuary’ and meat substitutes and how they could affect leather production in the years ahead.

Leather Leaders: Jonathan Muirhead

The first in a new series of in-depth interviews with visionary industry leaders is a conversation with the honorary chairman of the Scottish Leather...

World Leather Podcast - episode two

In this second edition of World Leather’s new podcast series, the team examines in depth the announcement from Tuscan exotic leather manufacturer A&A...

World Leather podcast

News and conversation from World Leather magazine, the global leather industry's most authoritative publication.

World Leather Podcast - episode one

An introduction to an important section that we'll start publishing in World Leather from 2020. Taking part are editor, Stephen Tierney, and deputy ed...