The Indian Leather Industry occupies a place of prominence in the Indian economy and accounts for substantial export earnings, generation of employment opportunities etc. In Tamil Nadu, only a few towns like Vaniyambadi, Ambur, Pernambut, Vellore, Ranipet, Pallavaram, Dindigul, Erode, and Trichy are popularly known as Leather Cities. The export of leather and leather products from India during the current financial year is expected to be US dollars five billion while its performance during the previous financial year was about US dollars 2.5 billion. As the industry's contribution to the economic development of the nation is very large, it is very essential to assess its status in terms of entrepreneurial success. There is a general belief that certain demographic factors like age, educational qualification, experience, ancestral background, native place etc contribute to the success among the leather industry entrepreneurs. The author in this research article has made an attempt to find out the relationship between these demographic variables and the entrepreneurial success. Dr Akhouri's Entrepreneurial Economic Success Index (EESI) technique was applied to determine the success status of leather industry entrepreneurs. For cross analysis between the demographic variables and the success level, chi-square technique was applied. It has been proved in this study that experience of the entrepreneurs and their ancestral backgrounds do have significant relationship with entrepreneurial success level. But the other three demographic variables namely, age, educational qualifications, and the nativity of respondents have no significant relationship with entrepreneurial success level.
