Our German member Verband der Deutschen Lederindustrie e.V. (VDL) has been added to the list of qualified trade associations under the German Unfair Competition Act(Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb) and is now authorized to issue legal warnings to companies using the word leather in a misleading way in their advertising. In COTANCE, we care about […]

This kind of rhetoric is often heard when people talk about desirable bags, shoes, saddles, jackets, sofas… They must own them, they “can’t live without them”, but of course nobody would actually die for them. Now, whether people “live or die” for leather or not, certain activist groups claim that “every year a billion animals […]