About us

A German company, built on Indian leather craft.

MSM Leder und Textil GmbH develops and supplies vegetable-tanned leather goods for brands and retailers — combining German-standard specification and quality control with an experienced manufacturing base in Chennai, India. We make our own collections, produce white-label and private-label goods, and supply finished leather. The company is part of the MSM Gruppe.

The people

Who you work with

A small, hands-on team — product and manufacturing expertise in Chennai, commercial and quality contact in Germany.

Gesellschafter (Partner) · Germany

Christoph Schuler

Gesellschafter (Partner) · Sales & Marketing · the link between Europe and India

As a partner (Gesellschafter) in MSM, Christoph is fully invested in the day-to-day: he coordinates customers across Germany and Europe, owns sales and marketing, and is the direct link to manufacturing in India — personally seeing every project through, from first enquiry to delivery. A mechatronics engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) by training, he spent more than fifteen years in leadership roles in the German automotive industry at Mercedes-Benz and Daimler — including supplier management with international suppliers and several years building engineering teams at Mercedes-Benz R&D in India.

Partner (Gesellschafter) — coordinates customers across Germany & Europe and the link to India
Dipl.-Ing. Mechatronik — 15+ years in German automotive (Mercedes-Benz / Daimler)
Supplier management & team-building across Germany and India
Based near Stuttgart, Germany

Managing Director · Chennai

Subramanian Veeraswamy

Geschäftsführer · Leather & manufacturing

Subramanian leads product development, leather sourcing and manufacturing. With more than four decades in the Indian leather and footwear industry, he has built and run tanneries, export houses and finished-goods operations, and serves as an external auditor for TÜV South Asia — bringing an auditor's eye for standards and testing to every order.

40+ years in leather, footwear and leather-goods manufacturing
External auditor, TÜV South Asia
B.E. (Hons), PSG College of Technology
Based in Chennai — MSM’s production and quality base

Company

MSM Leder und Textil GmbH · Part of the MSM Gruppe

Registered office

Goldmühlestraße 83, 71065 Sindelfingen, Germany

Manufacturing

Chennai, India — vegetable-tanned, chrome-free (Cr-VI-free) leather

Register

Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 791232 · USt-IdNr. DE364542529

Work with us

Let’s talk about your project

Whether you need a finished collection under your own label, a bespoke leather product developed from scratch, or finished leather to your specification — we’ll walk you through what’s possible.

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