Currently leather upholstery accounts for around 40-50% of all upholstered furniture sold. Many manufacturers and retailers could benefit from a better understanding of how to buy leather and sell leather furniture.

Leather upholstery and furniture is the most expensive leather product that consumers will buy and they will expect it to perform at a high level for many years.

The highest number of consumer complaints comes from the leather upholstery sector. Typical examples include finish cracking, colour loss/transfer, bagginess or a change in appearance.

A simple range of performance tests can ensure that leather furniture does not fail either in store or in use.

Every batch of leather used to make up leather furniture should be checked for light fastness, colour fastness, finish adhesion, flex endurance and strength.

BLC can
- train retail staff to understand leather types and sell product effectively
- identify problems with furniture and arbitrate in consumer claims

Please see our specification page. Our aim is to provide test results within 3-5 days of receipt of samples.