Assomac celebrates successful year despite “international uncertainty”
31/05/2018
The organisation’s president, Gabriella Marchioni Bocca, told members that the 12 months building up to the meeting had been “complex in many senses” because, in spite of global instability, Assomac members achieved a number of important successes and the association, as a whole, grew by an average of 10%.
Business has been growing for the last five years, Ms Marchioni Bocca noted, but she said that the rate of growth appears to be slowing now. She added that this slowdown in growth may only appear negative “psychologically” because the increase in activity in recent years has been so strong, but she said “international uncertainty linked to protectionist policies” is likely also to be an important factor. “These protectionist policies could have serious repercussions on Italy as one of the world’s leading exporting countries,” she warned, “and with serious repercussions for Assomac as we export nearly 75% of our production.”
Assomac believes its ‘green label’ initiative, a labelling system relating to the energy consumption and environmental performance of leathergoods, footwear and tanning technologies, launched at Tanning Tech 2018, can help it remain “internationally competitive”. At the Assomac annual general meeting, Gabriella Marchioni Bocca said that more than 30 companies have already joined the project and that the association expects this number to continue growing.
The association’s work around the world is also important and is supported by Italy’s ministry of economic development. It has achieved “significant results” in some markets in the last 12 months and laid the foundations of future success in others. Places in which Assomac has worked in the last year include Egypt, Pakistan, Cuba, Vietnam, Colombia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iran and Russia.
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