This week: The German hide market has been quiet. The focus has been on purchases at slaughterhouses for the month of October but, unfortunately, there were no meaningful price concessions. It is obvious that this is less market-related and more an ongoing strategic move by various players. When economics do not rule, commercial logic goes into the background. On the sales side, most activity was simply an extension of existing programmes, with only a handful of ad-hoc, opportunistic deals.

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