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Portrait
of company Franz Hoffmann in Stuttgart, wholesale supplier
and exporter of fine leather goods
Since
1925 this company is specialized in bookbinding leather,
restoration leather and genuine skin parchments, and
has been a well established name in the field as a major
supplier and partner to generations of bookbinders,
publishing companies and industrial bookbinderies.
An extensive selection of products,
expert knowledge and efficient service are the reasons
why customers from all over the world have remained
loyal to the firm for many decades.
The current product range includes
more than 380 items and colours, from handmade 'vintage
leather', naturally tanned and stained 'Niger' and genuine
'Maroquin' goat leather and pure vegetable- tanned,
hand- grained luxury morocco leather to
sheets of modern bookbinding leather and economical
materials made from leather fibres as bonded leather
in thicknesses of 0.3mm or more.
Johann- Joachim Dargel, nephew
of the company's founder, was employed in the business
in 1950 and he later also took over the management of
the company from the founder and former bookbinder Mr.
Franz Hoffmann, who died in 1961.
After more than 55 years in the
business, Johann- Joachim Dargel has fulfilled his dreams
through and, due to his age, he has placed his life's
work in the hands of a most suitable successor.
Since 1th January 2007, Thomas
Schmidt has continued to lead this well established
company in expert tradition of both of his predecessors.
He is a skilled tanner and leather
technologist who trained at the famous Leather Institute
of Reutlingen- Germany, and his many years of experience
in the industry and energetic approach will take forward
the legacy of the traditional company name 'Franz Hoffmann'.
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