Ostrich leather price in present global economy.

The global leather industry has been influenced in the last four months by payment and credit issues. The textiles, leather machinery and leather industry is ambling on with hope of an improving U.S. and UK economies. The ostrich leather outlook is characterised by conservative and calculated purchasing from ostrich leather buyers.

The leather prices are under strain since Christmas sales have been lower. Ostrich leather sellers are now moving to new economies like Russia, Far East and China to assist with present market conditions.

World first ostrich leather soccer boots for 2010 worldcup

A world first, ostrich leather soccer boots. Ostrich Emporium SA together with a Mexican company PIRMA are working on a new style of soccer boots to be launched before and in conjunction with the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. The thinking behind the idea was to provide a textured boot (using ostrich quill) to assist spinning the the soccer ball into the goals (to "bend it like beckham"). Unlike the Ostrich Skin Nike Dunk High (http://www.nicekicks.com/ostrich-skin-nike-dunk-high/) these boots are genuine ostrich leather.

Feel free to read more at the following links:

"THANKS to opportunities flowing from the 2010 soccer showpiece, two Nelson Mandela Bay entrepreneurs have teamed up with a Mexican company to produce soccer boots made out of ostrich leather." http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/biz/03_25082008.htm


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http://www.ostrichemporium.com/ostrichboot.htm

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