{"id":30086,"date":"2026-07-10T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/why-did-830-italian-leather-firms-close-while-luxury-prices-stay-high\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:22:26","slug":"why-did-830-italian-leather-firms-close-while-luxury-prices-stay-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/why-did-830-italian-leather-firms-close-while-luxury-prices-stay-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did 830 Italian leather firms close while luxury prices stay high?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.fibre2fashion.com\/Newsresource\/images\/311\/chatgpt-image-jul-10-8_323229.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h3>\tThe number behind the July strike<\/h3>\n<p>Several thousand people marched through Florence on July <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> during a Tuscany-wide industrial strike. Fashion, textiles and leather goods were among the sectors at the centre of the action.<\/p>\n<p>The <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> figure originated in a July <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> statement from the Florence branches of Italy\u2019s three main trade-union confederations\u2014CGIL, CISL and UIL. They said <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> leather-goods businesses had closed in the province since <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>, involving approximately <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>,<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> employees, some later absorbed by other companies.<\/p>\n<p>PwC research for Confindustria Toscana Centro e Costa found that Florence\u2019s fashion and leather districts had <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent fewer active businesses in the first quarter of <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> than in <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>. Employment was down <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent, while authorised wage-support hours surged <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent between <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> and <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n        <ph name=\"Courtsey\"\/>&#13;\n    <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibre2fashion.com\/news\/apparel-news\/why-did-830-italian-leather-firms-close-while-luxury-prices-stay-high--311641-newsdetails.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number behind the July strike Several thousand people marched through Florence on July * during a Tuscany-wide industrial strike. Fashion, textiles and leather goods were among the sectors at the centre of the action. The *** figure originated in a July * statement from the Florence branches of Italy\u2019s three main trade-union confederations\u2014CGIL, CISL&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}