"Rising brand awareness and surging disposable income together are driving the Indian footwear retail market. To cater to this growing need a lot of institutes across India are offering courses in this lucrative field."

The full story

A funny article about shoes, leather, plastic and
'extreme shoe collectors (or more commonly known as "women").'

This is filed under Good Vibes in The Sun Daily, Malaysian Source for News & Lifestyle.

Read on to decide for yourself, what it means!

A nice photograph of sandal with the product blurb.

Leather Flooring from recycled material created by Merida Meridian.

Mr Kapur of Hidesign has contributed some tips to take care of leather bags during monsoon. A short news item on Hindustan Times

All African Leather Fair has started by 20th January 2010, at Millinium Hall, Addis Ababa - events like UNIDO meet, Pittards signing up agrement with Ethiopian government have happened

Indian tanners to visit Turkey

A delegation from the Indian leather sector will head to Turkey in July to discuss ways of increasing finished leather and leathergoods exports.

MARK ROCHE, founder and managing director of Dragon Leather

A write up in WalesOnline.

According to this Wall Street Journal summary, "China said Wednesday it decided to impose temporary antidumping measures against carbon-steel fastener imports from the European Union, in its latest trade dispute just hours after the EU extended an antidumping duty on China-made leather shoes.".

Bloomberg report on EU anti dumping decision.

European Union member states voted to extend anti dumping duty of 16.5% and 10% respectively on shoes imported from China and Vietnam.

This article criticises the decision as protectionism.