Leather Leaders: Episode Five - Andreas Kindermann

Since 2008, Andreas Kindermann has been chief executive of
Wollsdorf Leather, a specialist producer of leather for
steering-wheels, furniture upholstery and aircraft interiors,
with its headquarters in Austria. He steered the company back to
growth following the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, opened
sewing and cutting plants in China and Croatia, established or
redeveloped sales offices in Hong Kong, Uruguay and the US, and,
in 2019, established a new tannery and leather cutting facility
in Mexico. He led Wollsdorf to victory in the Global Tannery of
the Year award in 2014. He was elected president of COTANCE, the
leather industry’s main representative body in the European
Union, in 2018.