Pearl Leather Finishers is a privately owned automotive leather supplier founded in 1976. It has facilities in Johnstown, NY and Juarez, Mexico, employing over 375 people with a combined finishing capacity of 40,000 hides per week and cutting capacity of 10,000 hides per week. Pearl supplies leather to many major automakers and is certified to ISO/TS 16949, ISO 14001, and other quality standards. It has strong leadership with decades of experience and invests over $1 million annually in research and development to continually improve processes and meet demanding industry standards.

2. Contents
 Company Overview
 Certifications
 Programs
 Quality/Supplier Ratings

3. Company Overview

4. Company Overview
 Privately Owned
 Tier 3-4 Automotive Leather Supplier
 40,000 hides per week capacity on
Finishing
 10,000 hides per week capacity on
Cutting at the Mexico Plant

5. Company Overview
 Pearl Leather Finishers founded in 1976
 Carmen Ruggiero started his business as a side leather contract finishing operation for the
garment, shoe and furniture trade, and soon he and his son John had built a thriving company
that supplied leather for many name brand products.
 The advent of NAFTA changed the industry. To survive, Pearl had to define a new niche. So in
1995, with Carmen as chief executive office and John as president, Pearl entered the automotive
seating market as a Tier 3-4 supplier of finished leather to both original equipment and after-
market seating manufacturers.
 Today Pearl’s 200,000 square foot manufacturing facility for finishing and 60,000 square foot
cutting plant in Mexico are state-of-the-art plants with 375 employees. With current finishing
capacity at 40,000 whole hides per week, and cutting capacity of 10,000 hides per week, Pearl has
become one of the largest suppliers of automotive leather in the world.

8. Management Experience (Pearl USA)
Carmen Ruggiero John Ruggiero Susan Johnson
(Founder) President Vice President
Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer of Administration
66 years of experience 35 years of experience 35 years of experience
Mitch Insogna Chuck Frascatore Kimberly Holt Tim Hohler
Maintenance Manager Plant Manager Quality System Manager Production Manager
26 years of experience 31 years of experience 16 years of experience 36 years of experience

9. Management Experience (Pearl Mexico)
Carmen Ruggiero John Ruggiero Susan Johnson
(Founder) President Vice President
Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer of Administration
60 years of experience 29 years of experience 29 years of experience
Jorge Holguin Guillermo Mata Omar Decena Adriana de la Ree
Plant Manager Production and Materials Quality and IT Manager Finance and HR Manager
16 years with the Manager 17 years with 15 years with
operation 17 years with the operation the operation the Operation

10. Pearl Leather Organization Chart

11. Operations
Finishing Plant in Johnstown, NY
• 200,000 Sq.Ft. State-of-the-Art Facility
• 75 Employees
• 40,000 Hides per Week Capacity
Cutting Plant In Mexico
• 60,000 Sq.Ft. Facility
• 300 Employees
• 10,000 Hides per Week Capacity

12. Finishing
Process
 Consistently proven quality
 Unlimited grain design
 Hundreds of leather grain designs available for immediate review
 Computerized chemical dispensing with unmatched accuracy
 Rigorous testing complies with all automotive standards

13. Staking / Milling

14. Finishing
Six Roll Coaters
Four Whole Hide Spray Lines

15. Embossing
EMBOSSING EQUPMENT
3 Bergi Roller Superpresses
2 Koch Roller
1 Mostardini Roller
1 Roto Press Roller
1 Fulco Roller
5 Koch Hydraulic Plate
1 Tyca Logo Embosser
More than 100 Embossing Plates

16. Grain Rolls 2 Keisel Soleil
1 Sandstone
2 Nudo
Pearl has 8 Whole Hide Embossing Machines with 1 Wanderer
40 Rolls, over 300 embossing plates and works 1 Sierra
with an outside embosser that has over 3,000 1 Verona
plates. 1 Sutton
1 Nomad
1 Salerno 1 Buffalo
1 Badlands 1 Prado
1 G-Grain 1 Warwick
1 Camino 2 Milled Pebble
1 Highland 1 Rawhide
1 Nuance 1 Ecco-Rio
1 Vienna 1 Meridian with H.C.
1 Milano 1 VW Vienna
3 Monticello 1 Fury
1 Capelli 1 Soho
1 NF Sonata 2 Haircell
1 Mabella 1 Royale
1 Milano 1 Smooth Roll

17. New Cutting Operation in Mexico
 The operation started in Juarez in 1995 to supply cut
components for Ford and General Motors to Lear
sewing plants in the city. Thought the last sixteen
years we have supplied leather for Ford, GM and
Subaru to Magna, Lear, JCI, Takata and Moriden. The
operation is experienced on both; roller press and
digital cutting, perforation, embossing with a
Mostardini press and Tyco embossing.
 The operation currently has 300 employees and has
an installed cutting capacity of 10,000 hides per week
 The operation has been QS 9000 Certified since 1998
and TS 16949 since 2005

18. Cutting Processes
(Roller Presses)
 We have in place the processes
and technology to meet the
required quality standards by the
Automotive leather and to run the
operation efficiently

19. Digitized Cutting
 State-of-the-art, digitized Gerber cutting system
 Most precise and accurate cut offering 100% repeatability
 Support for development runs
Two Gerber Digital Cutting Machines

20. State-of-the-Art
Research &
Development
 Reinvest over 1 million dollars annually in R & D
 Provide innovative design and manufacturing expertise
 Ensures our leather continually exceeds demanding standards
 Demonstrated commitment to excellence

21. Testing Facilities
 Automotive testing laboratories
 Experienced and skilled lab technicians
 State-of-the-art lab equipment
 Full Lab Scope for Ford, GM, Chrysler, and Hyundai Specifications

22. Community Involvement
 Support local school and education facilities
 Fund local community sports teams
 Provide supplies to the local charity organization

23. Community Involvement
 On Christmas we collect founds between us and other
persons outside the plant to buy some presents to the
children of our operators
 We are part of a community that organize actives such as
planting threes or cleaning streets and parks through the
city.

24. Awards
Supplier Hall of Fame Award
2002

25. Commitment to the Environment
 Devoted to environmental protection and preservation
 Maintain waste reduction and
environmental control systems
 Certified ISO 14001

26. Embossing
 A virtually unlimited number of embossed patterns

27. Embossing
 Embossed Logos

28. Perforation
 Traditional or custom perforation
 Created with a state-of-the-art digital machine

29. Perforation (continued)

30. Special Effects
 Variation and Creativity
 Custom Special Effects are welcome

31. Laser Engraving
 Unlimited Design Creativity
 Using Cutting-Edge Laser Equipment

32. Embroidered
 Custom Logo and Design Embroidery

33. Automotive Programs

34. Automotive Programs
Ford Mustang (Base, GT, Shelby)- Current Lincoln MKZ-
Ford Five Hundred- Current Mercury Montego
Ford Edge- Current Mercury Mariner
Ford Flex- Current Mercury Mountaineer
Ford Escape- Current Mercury Milan- 2009
Ford Fusion- Current Hyundai Sonata- Current
Ford Explorer- Current Hyundai Santa Fe-
Current
Ford Explorer Sport Trac- Current
Ford Freestyle
Ford F150- Current
Ford Econoline- Current
Lincoln MKX- Current
Lincoln MKS- Current
Lincoln MKT- Current

35. Certifications

36. Certifications
Certification Date
TS 16949 Automotive Standards (Pearl USA) Dec 2003
ISO 17025 Laboratory Certification (Pearl USA) May 2001
ISO 14001 Environmental Certification (Pearl USA) July 2003
TS 16949 Automotive Standards (Pearl Mexico) Oct 2005

37. ISO/TS 16949 (USA)

38. ISO/TS 16949 (USA)

39. ISO/TS 14001 (USA)

40. ISO/TS 14001 (USA)

41. ISO/TS 16949 (Mexico)
The Operation is Certified since 1998

42. Quality Data

43. Quality Data

44. Quality Data (Continued)

45. Quality Data (Continued)
Supplier Ratings Magna Acuña 2012 (Edge U387, Lincoln MKX U388 Base, Ford Flex D471)

46. Quality Data (Continued)
Supplier Rating Magna Sabinas 2012 (Escape U377, Econoline VN127)