Growth in France’s exports of leathergoods continued into November, as new figures published by Alliance France Cuir show.

In the first 11 months of last year, exports of leathergoods from France brought in more than €11.8 billion, up by 2% compared to the same period in 2023.

Handbags contributed almost €8.5 billion to this total and the export growth that French handbag manufacturers achieved between January and November last year was of 3% year on year.

Shipments of small leathergoods had a value of just over $1.1 billion over the period in question, down by 1% year on year. However, there was 1% growth in exports of leather watch-straps, which had a value of $135.8 million.

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