Tannery of the Year: Africa finalists announced
29/06/2011
Six tanneries featured on a list of candidates and from these two will go forward as finalists in the competition. The final will take place in Shanghai on September 6, the first day of the All China Leather Exhibition, with ten tanneries from five regions presenting their businesses to an independent panel of judges. The results will be announced that evening at the Second Tannery of the Year Gala Dinner, which will take place at the glamorous Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel, attached to the Shanghai Exhibition Centre.
The full list of candidates for Africa is:
- Elico, Ethiopia
- Nakara, Namibia
- Seton Auto Leather, South Africa
- Bader Leather, South Africa
- Klein Karoo, South Africa
- Tanneries Mégisserie du Maghreb, Tunisia.
Of these, the two tanneries moving forward to the Gala Final in Shanghai are Elico, Ethiopia, and Nakara, Namibia. Detailed reports on both finalists will appear in the June-July issue of World Leather.
We congratulate all our candidates and, especially, our two finalists.
Tannery of the Year is a competition launched by World Leather in 2009 to celebrate examples of excellence in the tanning industry, with the focus on sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Every 18 months, two finalists from each of five regions (Africa, the Americas, China, the rest of Asia and Europe) gather at an elite venue to celebrate their success as beacons of best practice and as companies creating jobs and wealth for their communities, while caring for the environment, maintaining excellent relations with the authorities, and, of course, producing beautiful leather. Independent judges at the final will choose a Tannery of the Year for each of the five regions and, from these five, one overall Tannery of the Year.
The inaugural winner of Tannery of the Year was the Ethiopia Tannery Share Company.
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