What happened last week: Summertime…and more than ever before the hide business is falling asleep. For many tanners the first half of the year ends this week, or at the latest next week. The summer...
Intelligence
July 2019The Pipeline
30 July 2019
German Perspective – 30.07.19
23 July 2019
German Perspective – 23.07.19
16 July 2019
German Perspective - 16.07.19
09 July 2019
US Perspective - 09.07.19
02 July 2019
German Perspective - 2.7.19
30 July 2019
German Perspective – 30.07.19
US Perspective – 30.07.19
Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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The big packer trade entered last week in no hurry to release its weekly offer lists. Once packers got around to publishing their lists, the majority...
23 July 2019
German Perspective – 23.07.19
What happened last week: The year 2019 can be considered one when the raw hide business can just shut down and take a long break like the manufacturing industries do, returning in September to see what has...
US Perspective - 23.07.19
Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
www.themaxfieldreport.com
Big packers entered last week with offer lists that did not appear as populated as the previous week. In addition, packers claimed to have improved...
The Leather Pipeline - 23.07.19
Macroeconomics
The past two weeks were again a reflection of the various challenges the global economy has to deal with. It is hard to set a priority list of things to discuss.
Perhaps we should start...
16 July 2019
German Perspective - 16.07.19
What happened this week: With the start of the holidays in some parts of the country and the final weeks before the holidays for others, things get slower every week now for anyone whose main business is in...
US Perspective - 16.09.19
Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
www.themaxfieldreport.com
Packers entered last week with offer lists that did not contain as many big hides for sale as the past several weeks. The shipping times on many of...
09 July 2019
US Perspective - 09.07.19
Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
www.themaxfieldreport.com
Last week saw packers attempting to deal with a holiday-shortened week of trading as the Independence Holiday fell on Thursday. We are aware of...
The Leather Pipeline - 09.07.19
Macroeconomics
The world of economics and politics in the past two weeks concentrated on the G20 meeting in Japan. Media and interested people were hoping for results from the various meetings that would make ...
German perspective - 09.07.19
What happened this week: The holidays are now approaching fast. One has to assume that most people in the trade are quite happy to take a break. This is not the first time that has happened, but there’s...
02 July 2019
German Perspective - 2.7.19
What happened this week: This week marks the end of the first half. Almost everyone will agree this has been the worst six months in the history of the hides and skins business.
The anti-leather...
US Perspective - 2.7.19
Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
www.themaxfieldreport.com
Members of the big packer trade say interest at the start of the week was somewhat surprising, as there were several reports of buyers willing to book ...