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03 June 2025
Fund raises hopes as well as money - leather, world leather Fund raises hopes as well as money
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An initiative that WWF has launched aims to raise an initial $10 million to help fund deforestation-free sourcing of hides. It says this will just be the start.
28 May 2025
Liberation Day blues - leather, world leather Liberation Day blues
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April 2025 was a cruel month of tariffs, counter-measures, trade tensions and uncertainty.
13 May 2025
Change takes time - leather, world leather Change takes time
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Carlo Briccola is president of the young business leaders’ group at Italy’s main representative body for the fashion sector, Confindustria Moda Accessori.
06 May 2025
Fix up, look sharp - leather, world leather Fix up, look sharp
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29 April 2025
Skills celebration - leather, world leather Skills celebration
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Luxury automotive company Rolls-Royce Motors celebrates its successful apprenticeship programme as an essential component of efforts to build up the skilled workforce it will need in the future.
23 April 2025
A seat at the table - leather, world leather A seat at the table
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Puma has enlisted ‘youth voices’ and influencers to explore questions surrounding real leather versus its alternatives – and uses our Nothing to Hide website to inform the debate.
15 April 2025
Clean and green - leather, world leather Clean and green
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A new initiative that the European Commission calls its Clean Industrial Deal should strengthen the leather sector’s claims that it deserves to remain part of the manufacturing panorama.
09 April 2025
France’s future - leather, world leather France’s future
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The president of Alliance France Cuir confirms that changes in farming in France may have wide-ranging consequences for the whole of the leather sector there.
01 April 2025
Where things come from - leather, world leather Where things come from
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Detailed work on traceability that Tapestry has been carrying out since 2019 could help companies in different parts of the supply chain respond to regulatory requirements, including EUDR.
25 March 2025
Life and Seoul - leather, world leather Life and Seoul
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Leathergoods start-ups from Seoul caught the eye at the September edition of Mipel in Milan. Six of them travelled to Italy for the occasion, but the South Korean capital is home to thousands more.
18 March 2025
Put it down to experience - leather, world leather Put it down to experience
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According to expert analyst Claudia D’Arpizio, luxury leathergoods brands will do well to emphasise the “emotional experience” involved in owning beautiful products made from the most circular material in the...
11 March 2025
Good COP, bad COP - leather, world leather Good COP, bad COP
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COP16 and COP29 – Conference of the Parties to the United Nations conventions on biodiversity and climate change – highlighted differences of opinion on accountability and financing and were generally thought...
04 March 2025
Blame it on the leathergoods - leather, world leather Blame it on the leathergoods
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After disappointing results, London-based luxury brand Burberry has decided that the best way to turn its fortunes around is to shine far less limelight on leather.
25 February 2025
To net-zero and beyond - leather, world leather To net-zero and beyond
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The United Nations has identified forest conservation as an important component in the battle to bring carbon emissions down. Contrary to the perceptions of many, livestock farmers are convinced they can...
18 February 2025
Calf strain - leather, world leather Calf strain
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Constraints in the supply of calfskins are having an impact on the luxury leathergoods sector, according to a past-president of ICHSLTA.
11 February 2025
Higg’s leather turnaround - leather, world leather Higg’s leather turnaround
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Data provided by the Leather Working Group, Leather Naturally and Spin360 has resulted in a significant revision of figures for leather on the Materials Sustainability Index.

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