Company facts

The Elmo Leather Group is the world´s largest manufacturer of exclusive furniture leather and one of the six biggest suppliers of leather to the automotive industry.

The company develops, manufactures, markets and sells Elmo leather in over 40 markets worldwide. Just over 95% of sales are to markets outside Sweden. Sales and marketing is mainly carried out in-house and, on certain markets, by independent sales representatives.

In 2003, production at the company´s wholly-owned subsidiary in Denmark was terminated. From 2004, the Group´s leather production has been concentrated at the partent company´s facilities in Svenljunga, Sweden. In February 2004, Elmo Leather opened a new production unit in Wismar, Germany for the cutting of leather for the automotive industry. Elmo Leather consists of the parent compay, Elmo Leather AB in Svenljunga, and three wholly-owned subsidiaries, Elmo Leather A/S in Denmark, Elmo Leather Inc. in the US and Elmo Trim GmbH in Germany. The parent company is owned by Elmo Leather Holding AB.

Business areas

In the furniture and automotive industries segment, Elmo operates in areas where quality, design and comfort are vital competitive elements. Our customers demand not just a broad range of a high technical quality leather, but also a range which, from a design perspective, is composed correctly in terms of colours, shades, feel, texture etc, and which increases the value of the end product. This way it becomes attractive to the end consumers individual requirements and needs. Shortly our business can be described as development, manufacture, marketing and sale of high quality leather for the Furniture- and Automotive Industries.