Cuoio di Toscana has a turnover of 140 million and supports young creation

The Cuoio di Toscana consortium, international leader in the production of sole leather with market shares equal to 98% of the Italian market and over 80% of the European market, renews its support for emerging talents at Pitti Uomo 106 by collaborating with the company brand French stylist Marine Serre, Guest Designer of the Florentine event, and expanding the “S|Style” project. Furthermore, on 13 June, the “Infinity Mirror” installation at Palazzo Borghese celebrated a special edition for Spring-Summer 2025. Turnover around 140 million, with a fairly positive outlook for the second half of 2024.

“Since 2021 we have been supporting young talents through the CDT Prize with the aim of enhancing creativity and raising awareness of the importance of a quality, Made in Italy product like our leather. This collaboration demonstrates the ability of the raw material to respond to innovation from a sustainable perspective, essential for the future of the sector”, declares Antonio Quirici, President of Cuoio di Toscana. “For Marine, we created accessories with the leather flower, seen in her fashion show, organized in the Italian garden of the historic Villa di Maiano”.

At the center of the Hall of Nations, at the world-leading Florentine event for men’s fashion, Cuoio di Toscana then unveiled a collaboration with the Kering group and its Kering Material Innovation Lab (the internal research center of the French group founded in 2013 and based in Milan dedicated to the procurement of materials and fabrics aligned with the Kering Sustainability Standards), linked to the eco-sustainability of materials, as part of the “S|Style” project, the Pitti Immagine Discovery Foundation platform. Now in its eighth edition, “S|Style” was born in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic with the aim of enhancing a generation of international fashion designers with a solid culture of responsibility.

In this edition, 9 stylists have designed a shoe, characterized by the consortium’s green sole, obtained from materials that do not impact the environment. They are Buzigahill (Uganda), Cooimhe Dowling (Denmark/Ireland), Denzilpatrick (UK), Domenico Orefice (Italy), Florania (Italy), Guido Vera (Chile), Permu (China) Tolo (Italy), Unsung Weavers ( Greece) and Via Piave 33 (Italy).

At an economic-financial level, Cuoio di Toscana was unable to reach the target it set itself last year of ending the financial year at around 200 million euros in turnover, with “the first months of 2024 being difficult like the second part of 2023, when we closed the year just above 140 million euros in total turnover”, admits Quirici, “but now it seems that there is a recovery, which should allow us to recover that part in the second half of turnover which compared to the same period last year we lost in the first 6 months. All before 2025 about which we are cautious, after this difficult 2024 due to the well-known geopolitical and climate problems, wars and global uncertainties about the economy. Too many things all at once.”

Cuoio di Toscana was also the protagonist of the Tuscan show with the “Infinity Mirror” installation, dedicated to the special silver edition of its classic moccasin characterized by the Green Sole, a manifesto of the consortium’s sustainable values. A conceptual and immersive project that wanted to tell the story of the company’s modus operandi which has no impact on the planet, with an infinite projection of the shoe through mirrored surfaces. At the presentation evening Valerio Ponti, President of the Italian Association of Podiatrists, illustrated the outlines of the partnership that emerged with Cuoio di Toscana last January, which aims to spread the natural properties of vegetable tanned leather and the beneficial qualities for the body in terms of perspiration and microcirculation.

Expressing the excellence of a unique sole leather, obtained with slow vegetable tanning and an ancient process based on the use of natural tannins obtained from chestnut, mimosa and quebracho wood, the Cuoio di Toscana brand was born with the aim of becoming spokesperson in the world of one of the leading tanning districts. Equipped with around 300 employees in total, the companies that are part of the consortium are all located in the province of Pisa, between Santa Croce sull’Arno (Bonistalli and Stefanelli SpA) and San Miniato, Ponte a Egola (Gruppo Conciario CMC International SpA, Tannery Gi-Elle-Emme SpA, Cuoificio Otello, Lamonti Cuoio SpA, Conceria 3S Srl and Volpi Concerie Srl).