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Engagement with consumers

Mike Redwood Published: November 16, 2022

Mike Redwood discusses the need for the leather industry to get its messaging in front of consumers through the right channels.

Making waterproof leather is more than choosing the right fatliquor

Published: October 17, 2022

Royal Smit & Zoon outlines the variables that influence waterproof leather production in a new white paper, available now for free.

Strong dollar and covid hits Chinese tanners

Published: September 29, 2022

According to analysis by theSauerReport Editor, Ian Banks, working life at Chinese tanneries was going all guns blazing at the start of 2022, right up until the Chinese New Year period. Since then the market situation has become much more complex for local tanners.

Getting your philosophy right

Published: May 18, 2022

Mike Redwood reflects on Royal Smit & Zoon’s 200^th anniversary dinner, and the company’s business philosophy.

The leather industry has united for COP26

Published: November 2, 2021

Our industry has not always been unified in the way it needs to be but getting a leather manifesto out ahead of COP26 is a great start, says Mike Redwood.

Education is not preparation for life – it is life

Published: February 17, 2021

I recently read Dr. Tara Westover’s book Educated. Having often travelled to the Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City and regularly incorporated it in a longer trip which allowed me to see more of the local area, I was interested to learn about life growing up in rural Idaho and Utah. In one of many interviews she has done since publication, she said that she thought it was wrong to say that education is only to prepare us for life - it was life.

Be watchful not to get caught out

Published: March 29, 2018

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” Charles Dickens has got it about right for the leather industry as we head into Easter and the heart of 2018.

New name for Johnson Controls’ automotive seating division

Published: January 15, 2016

Johnson Controls, the diversified technology leader, has announced the name of its new automotive seating and interiors business unit, to be spun off in October 2016.

Non-changing world of labour movement

Published: July 3, 2014

Right now across Europe and North America there is growing political unrest relating to labour movement. The Tea Party in the US, UKIP in UK and other right wing groups in several EU countries are in the media saying “foreigners are coming and taking our jobs”. Well – they are not, people and businesses at all levels may choose to live in another country.