Bosi looks beyond its own shores for the leather it needs
07/08/2015
The 40-year-old brand has 142 stores in Colombia, Ecuador and Costa Rica and has ambitions to expand this to nearly 170 in the next two years, including establishing a retail presence in Chile, Bolivia and Peru. It now employs 1,200 people directly and says it is also responsible for sustaining 600 indirect jobs.
Bosi’s own tannery in Colombia ships around 85% of the leather it produces, currently around 6,000 hides per month (it supplies other companies too), but the manager in charge of its leather operation, María Cecilia Toro, said in recent comments to Colombian media that importing certain types of leather from Argentina and from Italy was a necessity. “The cattle we have in Colombia simply doesn’t allow us to produce the same type of leather,” she said.
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