“Skin Problems Linked to Sofas” an England Problem Not Bari U.S.

First, it should be noted that Bari Leather Furniture is a U.S. company and this article in question refers to a collection of furniture called the Bari collection that is made by Argos, a company in England that sells to people in England and that these two companies have absolutely no association with each other. So, Argos had a problem with a collection of their furniture whereas we are a company called Bari Leather Furniture and thus the possible confusion. Obviuosly no company wants a complaint or complaints filed against them, but we are happy to report that the only association between our company and theirs is the coincidence of the names, their furniture line and our store name.

Secondly, and to the good fortune of all U.S. Bari Leather Furniture customers, Bari Leather Furniture uses ONLY 100% full top grain leather with 100% full aniline dyes. Why is this important? Using only the highest grade leather with full aniline dyes eliminates the potential problem that this company in England had. Within the entire world community of leather furniture, full aniline dyes have never had issues with skin reactions such as Argos had with their furniture. While we of course are sorry to hear of these problems for another company and their customers, we are of course pleased that we have never had these issues and will continue to use the high quality materials that we have always used.

Apparently, in March of 2007 a leather sofa company in England named Argos had a problem with a collection they called the Bari leather sofa. A very small percentage of them had some sort of problem with the leather that caused rashes on some of their customers. The article goes on to say that Argos handled the problem well and that no other problems were anticipated.

Now it’s November and with the mysterious workings of the web, the article is appearing in Google and has caused some of our customers to wonder if they will have problems. The simple answer is no. Argos, while I am sure a wonderful company, is a continent away and the only thing we share with them is that our COMPANY name is Bari Furniture and they have a leather collection they call Bari. Further, whatever problem they had with their leather furniture has been solved.

To be honest, in all of our years in working with leather products, we have never heard of this problem for any company in any country. We are wondering if perhaps the container that sent one of their shipments had something in it from a previous product that caused some allergic reactions and this is why they had problems with just those leather sofas. That would explain why they have had no further problems with this model.

So, what a strange problem. Imagine if Honda Motor Company introduced a new car that they called the “Ford”. And then imagine that the “Ford” had a problem with their exhaust system. And then an article comes out saying there’s a problem with “Ford” exhausts and consumers start wondering if the Ford Motor Company has production problems. That’s what we’ve run into. Thankfully, even for people confused by this name similarity, the problem has been solved for this other company.