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However, Barrow Hepburn and Gale remained successful despite the slump in the 1960s, seeing a turnover of £22.5 million in 1967, a year that saw a crash in the UK leather industry. The chairman, Richard Odey, took the opportunity to expand and sought to buy up as great a share of the shrinking market as possible. [citation needed]
A.L. Gebhardt & Co. was a leather tanning company founded in 1895. It operated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Berlin, Germany [1] It produced leather for shoes, handbags and belts. It was owned by U.S. Leather in the late 1980s. [2] Operations were ceased by U.S. Leather in 2000. [3]
The company began as two separate leather apparel manufacturer-retailers: Berman Buckskin, founded in 1899, as Berman Brothers Fur, Wool and Hides founded by David, Ephraim and Alexander Berman, [3] and after World War II, reinvented as a fringed buckskin shirt and jacket retailer, [4] and Wilsons House of Suede, founded in late 1950 in Beverly Hills California by Jerry Wilson and known for ...
Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. The word also refers to the materials used to upholster something. Upholstery comes from the Middle English word upholder, [1] which referred to an artisan who makes fabric furnishings. [2]
Longchamp (French pronunciation: [lɔ̃ʃɑ̃] ⓘ) is a French leather goods company, founded in Paris in 1948 by Jean Cassegrain. [1] The company pioneered luxury leather-covered pipes before expanding into small leather goods. Longchamp debuted women's handbags in 1971, becoming one of France's leading leather goods makers. [2]
The United States Leather Company (1893 [1]-1952), was one of the largest corporations in the United States circa 1900, and one of the original companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It was often referred to by contemporary sources as the "Leather combine" [ 2 ] or "Leather trust".