From The Sandy Parker Report of May 13, 2013 World retail sales of fur products edged up to $15.6 billion in 2011/12, an increase of almost $600 million over the previous year, according to the International Fur Trade Federation.  The new total represents a 44% increase over the past decade, the IFTF calculates, and has [...]

Mink prices soared to historic heights at the season’s first North American sale in Toronto, in what was described as the biggest mink offering in North American history. Chinese and Russian buyers spearheaded the demand, in order to satisfy the still-growing appetites of people back home.  The February sale at North American Fur Auctions attracted [...]

Sandy Parker Reports Volume 36, Issue 46 February 11, 2013 As expected, mink prices resumed their upward movement as the new auction season got into full swing at Kopenhagen Fur last week amid signs the trend is likely to continue at the sales elsewhere in the weeks ahead. Hong Kong/China, to no one’s surprise and [...]

“The growth in inland China is really what’s driving growth at the moment and we think for the next 10 years or so that will continue to rise,” IFTF Chief Executive Mark Oaten said. “There are 90 cities in China that buy as much fur as New York.”  Sales in North America were $1.3 billion [...]

American counterterrorism officials consider those who commit violent acts in the name of the environment and animal rights a serious threat to homeland security. Senator James Inhofe noted that radical actors affiliated with the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front had caused more than $110 million in damage between approximately 1995 and 2005. 

Mink pelt production in the United States in 2011 totaled 3.09 million pelts, up 9 percent from 2010. Wisconsin, the largest mink producing State, produced 1,050,580 pelts. Utah, the second largest producing State, produced 698,960 pelts. Value of pelts produced during the 2011 crop year was $292 million, up 25 percent from $233 million a [...]

SANDY PARKER REPORT, VOL. 36, ISSUE 15, JUNE 4, 2012 International Fur Newswith Sandy Parker Mink Strong at NAFA Finale Mink prices continued to show great strength last week as North American Fur Auctions opened its final sale of the season, virtually guaranteeing that this year’s averages will again reach new peaks. Now that the [...]

SANDY PARKER REPORT, VOL. 36, ISSUE 14, MAY 28, 2012 International Fur Newswith Sandy Parker Legend Closes on Firm Note The long, steady climb in mink prices appeared to level off last week at around the heights they had reached in March, but still enjoying strong demand. The season’s final sale at American Legend again [...]

“If you build it, they will come”  Quoting from the iconic film “Field of Dreams”, CEO Joe Morelli is using the phrase to describe the success of the Blackglama and American Legend brands that commanded record prices last week at the ALC Seattle auction.   Roughly 400 buyers from all over the world showed up [...]

The International Fur Trade Federation has today released the global fur sales figures for 2010/2011 and they reveal a strong growth of over 7% (year-on-year) despite the economic downturn, reflecting a general trend in the luxury goods sector.  In the longer term, turnover has increased by 70% since 2000/1. The Asian markets of China, Hong [...]