Italy Leather Goods Program: project record
Prior leather grading disputes caused a 9-week production halt; the brand needed a grading standard both sides could enforce.
- Buyer and project
- A Milan, Italy fashion accessories brand with 60 retail points and wholesale accounts.
- Products and scope
- Leather handbags, belts, and small leather goods; 4 collections, 56 SKUs, 45,000 units. Program value $2.6M.
What LifaSourcing.com did
Defined a written leather-grading standard with physical test criteria.
Consolidated production into 2 tanneries with documented grading systems.
Implemented first-article approval per collection.
Ran finish-adhesion and colorfastness testing per batch.
Recorded result
Zero grade disputes across 4 collections; sell-through 92%; the brand renewed at $3.1M with two additional categories.
Company record
A proven case study from LifaSourcing.com's historical work archive. The result above records the status reached in this project.
Client identities, supplier contacts and confidential commercial terms are withheld from this public company record.
