New MD takes the reins at two tanneries
Italian leather industry veteran Andrea Bagnoli has taken up the leadership of two tanneries.
At the start of July, he became managing director of Conceria Samanta in San Miniato in Tuscany, and also of Conceria Gaiera in Lombardy.
Andrea Bagnoli began running his own leather manufacturing company in Santa Croce sull’Arno in 1990. When it closed in 2011, he worked for a short time as a leather buyer for Salvatore Ferragamo and then for Geox.
In 2013, he went back into leather production, taking senior roles at Nuti Ivo Group, where he continued working until the end of June.
What links the two tanneries Mr Bagnoli will run now is that luxury group Chanel is a shareholder of both. It took a controlling stake in Conceria Samanta in 2019 and followed this up by investing in Conceria Gaiera in 2020.
