Bradford Hide Company

Bradford Hide Company sources, grades, cures and packs raw hides and skins from UK abattoirs for export. Products include cattle hides (ox, heifer and cow), calfskins, sheepskins, lambskins and goatskins, supplied wetsalted or drumsalted depending on customer requirements. It also cuts hides into croupons, backs and bellies to customer specifications, and sources greasy fleece wool from farms.

Customers are leather tanneries around the world. Their end products include nappa and doubleface leather jackets, upholstery leather, sole leather, shoe upper leather and lining, and other leather goods. The company sells these raw materials on a trading basis.

The company operates three factories and states that it handles approximately 20,000 cattle hides and 50,000 sheepskins and lambskins every week. It also has an associated tannery in England, Holmes Halls, which produces wet blue cattle hides at 8,000-9,000 per week. The business is headquartered in West Yorkshire and was founded in 1982. Related companies listed include Dee Baylis Ltd, A. & A.K. Butterworth Ltd and Bradford Hide Products.

Product: Raw cattle hides, calfskins, sheepskins, lambskins and goatskins, wetsalted or drumsalted, plus croupons, backs, bellies and greasy fleece wool