Rino Mastrotto elected as new COTANCE chairman
06/07/2012
Mr Mastrotto started in the business his father founded in Arzignano, Conceria Fratelli Mastrotto, as a teenager in 1960. Four years later, he took on responsibility for sourcing raw material for the company’s operations, and in 1969, when his father, Arciso, founded Basmar, a new tannery specialising in calfskin, he was placed on the board of directors.
From 1985 to 1989, he led a series of acquisitions (Pomari, San Marco, Calbe and Brusarosco), which were to make the Mastrotto Group one of the largest in the global industry. At the end of 1998, he chose to merge some companies into the Rino Mastrotto Group. These companies were Basmar, Pomari, Calbe, Brusarosco and Galassia.
Today, the organisation has 1,100 employees and generates sales of EUR 250 million per year. Over the last decade, Rino Mastrotto has also led a series of international transactions that have resulted in the acquisitions of the tanneries Bermas Maracanau in Brazil, the Rino Mastrotto Group Vietman, and Elmo Leather in Sweden, in addition to setting up sales offices in China, Paraguay, Australia and Hong Kong.
Thomas Bee, general manager of Seton Autoleather Europe in Germany, and Jonathan Muirhead, chairman of the Scottish Leather Group, were elected as vice-presidents.
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