Change at the top at Scan-Hide and Spoor
December 5 was Michael Søndergaard’s last day as chief executive of Denmark-based wet blue manufacturer Scan-Hide and of traceable finished leather supplier Spoor.
Scan-Hide and Spoor are part of farmer-controlled packer group Danish Crown. Mr Søndergaard is moving to a new position outside the group.
He joined Danish Crown in 2018 and became chief executive of Scan-Hide a year later. In 2019, he said the organisation was close to being able to bring to market a laser-technology based system for marking and identifying hides, enabling the group to offer traceable leather.
He explained that this would allow brands to share “the whole life-story of the animal, from farm to shoe, farm to sofa and so on”.
This led, in 2020, to Spoor spinning off from Scan-Hide as the supplier of this traceable leather.
Scan-Hide has already announced his successor. Its new chief executive will be Jesper Lauge Christensen, who will join on January 2, 2025. Mr Lauge Christensen has almost 25 years’ experience of the fur industry.
