The latest of our exclusive Leatherbiz Market Intelligence reports appears in the Intelligence section of the website today, offering readers an unparalleled insight into what’s happening in the leather pipeline.

In this new edition, we see the suggestion that the raw material market has probably balanced out fairly over the course of the covid-19 pandemic.

Hide prices were low for much of 2020 and tanners benefited. Now raw material prices have gone up and passing the increase on to finished product manufacturers is far from easy.

The report calls this “a fair balance” and says the focus now should be on how sales and prices progress in the coming seasons.

Subscribers can read the full report here.

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