A graduate of the Institute for Environmental Engineering and Management at École des Mines de Paris, Marc Brunel has been a recognized expert in the leather and fashion industry for over 20 years. In 1999, he took on the role of communications director at the Alliance France Cuir. Through the subsidiary GROUP SIC SA, in partnership with INFORM, he was tasked with the European and Latin American development of the Asia Pacific Leather Fair (APLF) in Hong Kong and the All China Leather Exhibition (ACLE) in Shanghai.
All China Leather Exhibition (ACLE) is the first and only international leather fair in China. ACLE is known as the premier event for international companies seeking opportunities in China’s huge markets – the focus of the global leather industry. Since its inception back in 1998, ACLE has welcomed hundreds of thousands of professional buyers from the main tannery and leather goods / footwear manufacturing provinces of Mainland China.
ACLE targets the Chinese tanning (upstream) sectors which are sourcing raw hides and skins, semi-finished leather, leather chemicals and leather machineries to manufacture into finished leather to be used in the domestic footwear, leather goods and automotive upholstery sectors.