Auction Houses

Auction Houses

Located in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Sojuzpushnina was established in the 1930s and was, until 2003, a unitary state enterprise (USE). It is currently an all-union, self-supporting, foreign trade association. There are three to five auctions a year in St. Petersburg selling a total of about 600,000 sable skins, as well as mink, fox, lynx, squirrel and kolinsky. Russia is the only nation to offer sable.

Founded in 2018, the Ruspushnina auction house is located in St. Petersburg. An experienced team prepares sable, marten, lynx, kolinsky and ermine for auction sales. The purpose of the auction house is to show and represent Russian fur. Therefore, for the goods purchased at the auction, distinctive signs are provided so that the buyer knows that his product is made from the highest quality raw materials. Thus, Russian sable is represented by a special line of “PREMIUM”.

Kopenhagen Fur is a brand and a full-service auction house situated outside Copenhagen, Denmark. It is owned by Danish fur breeders and managed by the Danish Fur Breeders Association, a co-operative founded in 1930. Across its five auctions a year, Kopenhagen Fur deals with almost 30 million mink skins, as well as fox, swakara, chinchilla and seal skins.

Established in 1938 and now listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki, Saga Furs Oyj is a full-service auction house situated outside of Helsinki, Finland. In 2016 the company’s retail sales value was EUR 437 million, and it employed an average of 350 people. During its four to five annual auctions, Saga Furs sells mink, fox and Finnracoon to companies across the globe.

Based in Toronto, Canada, and dating back to 1670, North American Fur Auctions (NAFA) is the oldest fur auc- tion house in the world. The company holds competitive auctions three to four times per year as the principal method of selling the world’s most diverse collection of high quality wild fur pelts, along with farm-raised mink and a small collection of fox to the international market.

Fur Harvesters Auction Inc. (FHA), is located in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, and is the only trapper-owned and op- erated fur auction house in the world.

The buying of fur at international auctions usually happens through fur brokers because of their expertise on skin quality and skills with logistics, taxation, insurance andfinancing. The brokers buy millions of fur skins on behalf of their manufacturing customers (the buyers).