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Overseas visitors from Saudi Arabia – the region’s single
largest jewellery market – increased by a massive 3.5%,
yielding a total visitor share of 32% These included High net
worth private collectors, General public, Wholesalers, Dealers,
Importers, Jewellery designers, Retailers, Retail Chain
owners, Agents, Distributors, Procurement professionals
The Council organized joint participation for the 12th
consecutive year at Jewellery Arabia 2015, held from
November 24-28 2015 at Manama Bahrain. The India
Pavilion spread across two locations had exhibitors who
displayed precious metal jewellery both plain and studded,
gemstones including diamonds, precious and semi-precious
colored stones.
Highlights of India Pavilion
Area
: 840 sqm
Exhibitors
: 57
Booths
: 75
THE 4TH INDIA DIAMOND WEEK
18 – 21 January 2016 at New York, USA
The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) in
conjunction with the Diamond Dealers Club (DDC) of New
York hosted close to 80 participating companies (15 compa-
nies from India and 26 companies from US) at its 4th India Di-
amond Week on the DDC’s trading floor in Manhattan starting
from 18th to 21st January, 2016.
The DDC has created a renaissance of the diamond trading
floors by welcoming diamantaires from India, the manufac-
turing center of the diamond industry, for the second time to
experience and trade at the largest bourse in the U.S.
Significant business transactions and new connections were
made on the DDC’s trading floor by the U.S. & Indian partic-
ipants, including DDC members. The meet saw networking
between major Diamond wholesalers/ manufacturers from
New York and India Diamond Dealers who are the members
of DDC and trade diamonds at NY and Buyers from other
states.
Highlights:
Indian Exhibitor : 15
Tables occupied : 15
VICENZAORO WINTER 2016,
VICENZA, ITALY
22 – 27 Jan 2016
The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC)
organized the India Pavilion at VICENZAORO Winter 2016
from 22 – 27 January at Vicenza, Italy hosting 14 leading
Indian manufacturers at the show. VICENZAORO Winter
being the first event in the International gems & jewellery
exhibition calendar had been touted as a platform to gauge
the future trends.
The Exhibitors participating under the India Pavillion were
very happy with the Boutique Concept and the overall booth
and India Pavilion look. All the preordered facilities by the
exhibitors were in place and overall the exhibitors were
extremely pleased with the booth’s look and facilities. Most
of the exhibitors did good business over the 5 day period
with many of them having pre-scheduled meetings along-
with walk-in visitors as well. Europe is one of the important
exporting destinations for India and VICENZAORO Winter
is an ideal platform to showcase capabilities of Indian
Jewellers to the European market.
India Pavilion at Hall no. 3.0 is dedicated to loose diamonds
whereas India Pavilion at hall no. 3.1 showcased premium
range of jewellery catering to European markets.
Highlights of India Pavilion
Area : 256.32sqm
Booths : 14
Exhibitors : 14
THE 33rd HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL
JEWELLERY SHOW & THE 3rd HONG KONG
INTERNATIONAL DIAMOND, GEM & PEARL SHOW.
“Two Shows-Two Venues”— Expansion of HKTDC
Hong Kong International Jewellery Show 2016
The 3rd Edition of Hong Kong Diamond, Gem & Pearl
Show and 33rd Edition of The Hong Kong International
Jewellery Show commenced from 1st - 7th March 2016.
The said concept enabled the show to perform at its
fullest giving new exhibitors an opportunity to showcase
their products and the existing exhibitors to expand their
current scope of business. The show was divided majorly
into two categories viz. Loose Stones & Jewellery
