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News & numbers 5 Pecca Group continues to soar with fifth consecutive quarter of record profitsy


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Leather International January/February 2024


Editorial


Editor Michael Moran Sub-editor Thomas Roy Designer Martin Faulkner Group art director Henrik Williams Production manager Dave Stanford


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5 Geox discloses financial performance for the first three quarters of 2023


5 Tod’s introduces digital product passports via Aura Blockchain for Di Bag


6 Wolverine Worldwide discloses Q3 2023 financials amid transformation efforts


6 Moore & Giles celebrates major milestone with introduction of carbon- neutral leathers


7 Ralph Lauren reveals fiscal year 2024 Q2 highlights


9 Leather International / www.leathermag.com 3


Sustainability 9 Is it leather? That’s the big question for any savvy shopper these days, but it’s also the name of a website helping to change the narrative on leather. Vera Dordick reports.


Raw materials 15 View from the US


The latest price and production data from the US.


21 Extracts from the Hidenet World Reports News stories, market


trends, data and prices from leather markets across


the globe.


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