GJX Tucson Gem & Jewelry Trade Show 2011

The GJX show will be held in downtown Tucson

February 1st through February 6th, 2011

Hours: Tuesday 1st thru Saturday 5th - 10:00am to 6:00pm
Sunday 6th - 10:00am to 4:00pm*

List of Sri Lankan Exhibitors

Anura Wijemanne Associates
Booth: 2302
No. 50, Galle Road
Colombo 3 Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-11-331834
Fax: 94-11-331833
Email: awaassociates@yahoo.com
Website:
Product Description: All shapes and sizes of Sapphires, Rubies, Spinels, Garnets, Aquamarines, Beryls, Tourmalines, Moonstones, Alexandrites, Cat's Eye, Star Stones, Lapidary service.

Athula Jayatunge
Booth: 2204
Helsinkistr. 38
Muchen Germany 81829
Phone: 49-89-43737740
Fax: 49-89-437737741
Email: jayatunge@t-online.de
Website:
Product Description: Gemstones from Sri Lanka. Rare Gemstones.

Beauty Lanka Gems & Jewellery (pvt) Ltd.
Booth: 2005
124/12 Dudley Senanayake Avenue
Dehiwela Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-11-4203291
Fax: 94-11-2730213
Email: mudithadela@beautylanka.com
Website: www.beautylanka.com
Product Description: Fine cut Sapphires in free size and calibrated. Sapphire-set jewelry, semi-precious gems and stones.

Bright Gems Intl (Pvt) Ltd.
Booth: 909
No. 2, 4th Floor, Temple Lane
Colombo-3 Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-11-2506942
Fax: 94-11-2506943
Email: brightgems@eureka.lk
Website:
Product Description: All kinds of clean and well cut Sapphires - calibrated and free sizes, as well as semi-precious gemstones, Gold and Silver jewelry.

Chanmel Gems (Ceylon) Co.
Booth: 2601
42/11, Bodhiwardanarama Rd., Goluwavilla
Ratnapura Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-11-777308929
Fax: 94-11-452222129
Email: chandimalm@yahoo.com
Website:
Product Description: Cut and polished precious and semi precious gemstones.

Collectors Counts
Booth: 2301B
54. Goods Shed Road
Ratnapura Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-45-2222112
Fax: 94-45-2225206
Email: collectorscounts@gmail.com
Website:
Product Description: Gemlanka - Blue Sapphire, Ruby, Pink Sapphire, Padparadsha Sapphire, Alexandrite, bright Spinel, rare gems, Taaffeite variety of crystals - Sapphire - fine colorful pyramids & collector's delights.

Colombo Gemstones
Booth: 2301A
29 1/2, 33rd Lana, Wellawatte
Colombo 06 Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-77-3413161
Fax: 94-11-2582282
Email: razmo65@gmail.com
Website:
Product Description: We are one of the leading exporters of Sri Lankan Sapphires, Rubies, Catseyes, Stars Sapphires and Semi-Precious Stones.

Crest Gems Ltd.
Booth: 2501B
142 1st Floor, Galle Road
Colombo 3 Sri Lanka
Phone: 94 11 2327165
Fax: 94 11 2447628
Email:
Website:
Product Description: Precious gemstones.

D.B. Enterprise (Pvt.) Ltd.
Booth: 2101
17, Vijaya Rd.,
Mt. Lavinia Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-11-2716999
Fax: 94-11-2732334
Email: dbenter@sltnet.lk
Website:
Product Description: Professional cutters & exporters of precious, semi-precious, rare stones & handmade jewelry.

Engelo Gems (pvt) Ltd.
Booth: 2201
No. 78/1, Main Street
Battaramulla Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-11-4403551
Fax: 94-11-2875612
Email: egems100@sltnet.lk
Website:
Product Description: Specialists in Rainbow colored Sapphire suites and semi-precious suites.

Glitz Gems & Lapidary
Booth: 2402
W.T.C. Colombo Shop No. 11
Ratnapura Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-77-3772972
Fax: 94-11-2437001
Email: glitzgems@gmail.com
Website: www.glitzgems.lk
Product Description: Sapphires - free sizes and calibrated stones.

Hi Line Trading (pvt) Ltd.
Booth: 2502
496 R.A. De Mel Mawatha
Colombo 3 Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-112589200
Fax: 94-112508641
Email: ifraz.haqque@gmail.com
Website:
Product Description: Sri Lankan Sapphires, Brazilian Alexandrites, Fine Jewelry.

Jayakody Gems (pvt) Ltd.
Booth: 2102
No. 80/A Pepiliyana Rd.
Nedimala, Dehiwala Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-112761010
Fax:
Email: jayagems@stmail.lk
Website:
Product Description: All kinds of stones from Sri Lanka

K.K. Gem Investments, Inc.
Booth: 1007
510 West 6th Street, #720
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Phone: 800-332-2289
Fax: 213-622-1132
Email: kkgi@sbcglobal.net
Website:
Product Description: Dealers and wholesalers of fine Sri Lankan gemstones. Specializing in blue, pink, yellow and multi-color Sapphires, Padparadsha, Star Sapphires, Star Rubies, Chrysoberyl Cat's Eye and Alexandrites.

Khiard Jeweler's
Booth: 2104
1 Stamboul Place
Colombo 3 Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-11-2372783
Fax: 94-11-2370711
Email: mkmizabith@sltnet.lk
Website:
Product Description: Loose gemstones.

Mincraft Company
Booth: 2501A
No. 92/4A, Templers Road
Mount Lavinia Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-112726796
Fax: 94-112733693
Email: mincraft@slt.lk
Website: www.mincraft.com
Product Description: Lapidary service, Sapphires - Blue and fancy colors. Free calibrated sizes, Alexandrite, Cat's Eye, Spinel, Semi-Precious and unusual gems.

Mushan International
Booth: 2401B
Level 10, Mushan Tower
528, R.A. De Mel Mawatha
Colombo 3 Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-11-2554615-7
Fax: 94-11-2554333
Email: gems@mushaninternational.com
Website: www.mushaninternational.com
Product Description: All kinds of high quality Sapphires.

NS Gem Exporters (pvt) Ltd./Lanka Rare Gems
Booth: 2401A
#296 - 3/6, 3rd Floor
Galle Road
Colombo 00600 Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-11-4522551
Fax: 94-11-255-9823
Email: rana@slt.lk
Website:
Product Description: Calibrated Sapphire and free size: blue, yellow, pink Sapphires, semi-precious stones and rainbow color line.

Ran Ruwan Co. (Pvt.) Ltd.
Booth: 2411
382/4, Sri Nandasara MW.,
Hokandara North Sri Lanka
Colombo Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-71-8146978
Fax: 94-11-2561851
Email: ranruwan@sltnet.lk
Website:
Product Description: Precious & Semi-precious gemstones; gemstone studded 18K yellow & white Gold jewellery and Silver jewellery.

Rohitha Gems (Pvt.) Ltd.
Booth: 2602
Rohitha Gems Building
Paradise Industrial Estate
Paradise, Kuruwita Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-45-2262694
Fax: 94-45-22-62298
Email: rohithaperera25@yahoo.com
Website:
Product Description: Colored stones.

Shimla International
Booth: 2100
34, Yusuf Avenue
China Fort
Beruwala Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-342276553
Fax: 94-344288155
Email: nowfer@wow.lk
Website:
Product Description: All kinds of Sapphires, blue, pink, yellow, white, orange; Padparadscha, star and C.E.; Ruby, Alexandrite, semi-precious gemstones.

Super Shine Gems
Booth: 1425
62, Wijerama Road, Udahamulla
Nugegoda Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-112803706
Fax: 94-112802029
Email: supershinegems@yahoo.com
Website: www.supershinegems.com
Product Description: Finest quality Sri Lankan Blue, Pink, Yellow, Purple and White Sapphires, Padparadscha, Star Sapphires, Star Rubies, Cat's Eyes, Alexandrite, Spinel, Garnet, Chrysoberyl and Zircon. Single stones, calibrated sizes & free sizes. Also Rainbow and other Sapphire sets of exquisite designs.

US Lanka Gem
Booth: 2202
2 A Charles Place
Dehiwala Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-11-2725376
Fax: 94-11 2761772
Email: uslankagem@sltnet.lk
Website: www.uslankagem.com
Product Description: Gems and jewelry. We specialize in Sr Lankan Blue Sapphires (Ceylon Blue Sapphires) - calibrated and free sizes.

Visaka Gems & Jewellery
Booth: 632
21/B Marapana
Ratnapura Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-45-2229199
Fax: 94-45-2229371
Email: visakagems@sltnet.lk
Website:
Product Description: Sri Lankan Sapphires in Blue, Pink, Yellow, White, Purple; Star Sapphires and Cat's Eye; semi-precious stones; Silver jewelry; White Gold jewelry with Sri Lankan Sapphires.

Tianjin China World OriginalCommodity Trade Fair

Free booth for Sri lanka (Tianjin China World OriginalCommodity Trade Fair)

Dear Member,

For your Information.

Members who are interested in participating at this show Please contact Mr. Alexi Gunasekera direct.

Mr. Alexi Gunasekera
Commercial Counsellor
Embassy of Sri Lanka ,Beijing
No 3 Jian Hua Lu 100600 China
Tel 0086 10 65325372
008613552737633
Fax 0086 10 65325426 on 00
Thanks and kind regards,

Srikari
Coordinating Assistant.

Facets 2009 - Sri Lanka's premire gem and jewellery show

The great event is about to show the finest gemstones and jewelry of Sri Lanka at the Facets 2009 Gem and Jewellery Exhibition. The even is organized by Sri Lanka Gem and Jewellery Association and The National Gem and Jewellery Authority. The theme of the Facets 2009 is "Gemstones direct from the source".

Facets 2009, 19th Sri Lanka International Gem and Jewellery Show will be held from 3rd to 6th September 2009 at the BMICH, Colombo.

JCK New Delhi 2008 Keeps Getting Bigger & Better!

JCK New Delhi 2008, the jewelry exhibition is catching up in the country on a great pace and is now all geared up to brighten Delhi in July at Pragati Maidan. The show will see the best of jewelry manufacturers, wholesalers, exporters and retailers gather and explore huge business opportunity offered through this platform. The exhibition has set new benchmarks in the field of Jewellery trade fairs in India since its inception in 2006 and is on the way of scaling bigger heights year after year.

JCK New Delhi 2008 is backed by Delhi Jewellers Association, World Gold Council and GJEPC and offers a strict business-to-business platform for the most suitable business environment to trade. The exhibition is not only classy & luxurious but is also very meticulously planned out. There are well segmented pavilions of Gold & Fine Jewelry, Diamond & Fine Jewelry, Gem Stones & Gemstone Jewelry, Laboratories, Silver Jewelry & Hollowware, Machinery and Tools for focused exhibition browsing. The show will bind the traders from across India along with various other countries, and would also deliver a world class ambience and a show experience to remember!

Learn more by visiting www.jcknewdelhi.com or click here to contact JCK New Delhi 2008.

Well supported by the industry, the show features 250 prominent exhibitors both in national and international league like:

Aashna Diamonds, Abhay Navinchandra, ACPL, Amore Jewels Pvt. Ltd., Apple Gems International, A'Star Jewellery, Bhavani Jewels, Ciemme Jewels Ltd., CVM Exports, Diam Circle Mfg. Pvt. Ltd, European Gemological Laboratory Pvt. Ltd., Forever Precious Jewellery & Diamonds Ltd., Gitanjali Gems Ltd., GDK Jewels Pvt. Ltd., GIE Gold Creations Pvt. Ltd., Golkunda Diamonds & Jewellery Ltd., H K Jewellers, Hammer Plus Jewellery Pvt. Ltd., Hariprasad Gopikrishna Jewellers Pvt. Ltd., IGI, J.B. & Brothers, Jindal Diamonds and Gems Pvt. Ltd., Kantilal Chhotalal, KGK Creations (India) Pvt. Ltd., Kothari Jewels, Kundan Hut, M.R. Chains Pvt. Ltd., Majestic Gems, Nolkha Jewellers, Osia Gems, P. Manoharlal Jewellers & Exporters, Panache Exports Pvt. Ltd., Pranda Jewellery Pvt. Ltd., Ridhi Sidhi Gems, RMC Gems India Limited, Sanghavi Exports International Pvt. Ltd., Shanti Gold, Sheetal Manufacturing, Shivin Jewellers, Solitaire Diam, Sri Balaji Jewellers & Exporters, Suashish Diamonds Limited, S K Chains, Shashwat Jewels, Uni-Design Jewellery India Pvt. Ltd., Vikas Chain, Laxmi Dia Jewel Pvt. Ltd., Ary Gold Designers, GIA India, IDL, IGL, Reliance Money Ltd., Ashlyn Chemunnoor Instruments Pvt. Ltd., Nickunj Eximp Entp P Ltd., Citizen Scale (I) Pvt. Ltd., N Jewellery Techniques Pvt. Ltd., Tache, B&S Antwerp NV, Baymonte, Colombian Stone Co., Ltd., SIDRA S.A.R.L., Siam Shine Star Co. Ltd., Bassano Collection, Jewels & Nuggets and many, many more!

This year JCK New Delhi brings together exhibitors covering the entire jewelry segment & offers a complete range in trends and prices to ensure a reason for our visitors from every segment including organized, family owned, large and small buyers to do profitable business at the show. To ensure that the platform is approachable, various customized marketing initiatives and efforts are being taken for each segment simultaneously, consequently facilitating activities to meet the business objectives of all the exhibitors. Many programs are also undertaken to maximize business transaction possibilities for the exhibitors at the show. Minutest details are being given extra care to deliver a flawless show this time.

Some key show highlights:

~Features an wide variety from each jewelry category - gemstones, diamonds, gold, fine jewelry, high Italian jewelry, machinery & tools, silver jewelry and CZ jewelry to cater to all the retailer's need.

~Special Delhi Pavilion to showcase Delhi manufactures and wholesalers.

~Features unique exhibitor offers for the visitors exclusively for JCK New Delhi 2008.

~A true national scale exhibition covering with enhanced international participation from Thailand, Dubai, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Lebanon, US, Japan and so on.

~No pre-registration fee for Visitors to encourage the trade to approach keeping the onsite registration fee to Rs. 1000!

~Offers desired serious business environment for pure business and transactions.

~Planned in July, which is the most favorable month for Retailers to buy and browse through the opportunities [Source: as per the survey conducted by the research agency, Facts & Opinion].

Reed Exhibitions Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Mandeep Singh added "We are 90% sold out in the month of April already with prominent players. Also, to pull buyers of various capacities we have special buyers proposition from the exhibitors only available in the 4 days of JCK New Delhi. We also have various campaigns running like Progressive Buyers CRM program to acknowledge leading buyers per city on certain parameters gaining popularity, along with Foot Soldier activity encompassing 9 cities ensuring penetration and high visitor registrations. This should ensure right crowd in right number at the show."

Various facilitation initiatives have been taken like recognizing preferred Airlines by negotiating rates between the ranges INR 499 to 999 from various sectors to Delhi, launching Key to business in India for international participants, doing a Travel Guide for all participants, online meeting scheduling facility for visitors, and so on!

JCK New Delhi 2008 is building to be a complete solution to all the buyer's needs from loose stones to a fine jewelry, from technology to packaging. The show promises to be a comprehensive showcase of ideas and concepts delivering an experience to its visitors!

25th MidEast Watch & Jewellery Show (October 8-12, 2008)

The 25th edition of MidEast Watch & Jewellery Show is set to be held at Expo Centre Sharjah from 8th to 12th October 2008. We are pleased to invite you to participate at the event. The show, a favourite among the leading jewellers in the industry for launching new designs is considered to be the most successful watch and jewellery event in the region.

UAE is one of the top gold-consuming countries in the world and also a major hub of the physical gold trade in the Middle East and Asia. Diamond sale is also on the upswing with the Gulf being the fourth largest market in the world. Industry sources say demand for diamond jewellery has been increasing by more than 40% for the past two years. Rough diamond trade in Dubai itself totaled to US$ 4.8 billion in 2007. In 2007, gold demand rose eight percent to 99.8 tonnes in the UAE according to the World Gold Council figures.

Visitors, both trade and direct buyers, from across the Middle East flock to every edition of the show in search of the most fascinating and wide ranging choices in gold, diamond, pearl, silver, gems, precious stones, loose pearls, watches and other jewellery displays. The strong and extensive visitor campaigns carried out well in advance ensures the turnout of substantial and quality visitors. The MidEast Watch & Jewellery Show is aimed at attracting jewellery trade buyers, importers, traders and retailers and private collectors from across the Middle East region. The event has set an achievement in high sales figures by record gold sales in the country last year.

The show has over the decades gained reputation and acclaim as the Middle East’s longest running watch & jewellery event. It is therefore not surprising that the event boasts of an exhibitor retention rate of over 90%, one of the highest in the region.

The last show in April this year featured more than 350 exhibitors from 25 countries with a 30 per cent increase in exhibition space sold and number of exhibitors over the previous edition. It attracted a record 46,908 trade and direct buyers.

To be a part of this successful show, just complete the enclosed reply form and return to us immediately. On receipt of the form, we will get in touch with you with all the necessary information.

Please visit our website: www.mideastjewellery.com for more information about the show.

Thank you and we look forward to your response.

Sincerely yours,

Abid Maqsood
Cell: +971 50 4742249
Dir: +971 6 5991 201
Main: +971 6 5770 000
Fax: +971 6 5770 111
Email: abid@expo-centre.ae
Web: www.expo-centre.ae

Tucson Gem Show

America's gem festival of the year - the Tucson international gem show - successfully ended in February. It began 54 years ago as a class room exhibition of gems and minerals designed for the public by a geology professor at the Arizona State University USA. Today it has grown to become the world's largest gem-jewelry-mineral-fossil show.

Every new year season (January - February), the desert city of Tucson begins to dazzle with a myriad of colors as thousands of exhibitors and dealers from across the world display their glittering precious stones.

Major gem exhibits at Tucson convention centers and hotels are the AGTA (American Gem Traders Association), GJX (Gem and Jewelry Exchange) show and the WGJ (World Wide Gem and Jewelry) show. Among these AGTA and GJX are the most popular with over 2000 exhibitors at each show. Exhibitors form the United States, Europe and Asia dominate the show. Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, Myanmar, China, and Japan are represented in different pavilions at the major gem shows.

The Sri Lankan exhibitors numbering over 100 exhibitors participate at two major shows in Tucson. Having participated for over 30 years, many Sri Lankan dealers do extremely well in promoting Sri Lanka's top quality blue sapphires, padmaraga and other gem stones. Also many lapidary dealers succeed in getting quotas of cutting orders fro factories thereby generating more employment in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) paved the way for Sri Lanka's participation in Tucson initially with four exhibitors. The number grew steadily and today it has risen to more than 100 dealers taking part in the Tucson festival.

In addition a multitude of gem and mineral and fossil shows are held in small hotels and motels around the city. An array of precious stones including diamonds, emeralds, sapphire and jade is a boon to buyers in selecting the best at competitive prices.

More than 50,000 buyers, many of them from the USA, Europe and Japan attend Tucson gem and jewelry festival. Visitors find traveling easier with an excellent shuttle bus service connecting the gem shows. The 38 shows are within easy reach by the Garnet route, Sapphire route, Emerald route, B-Line, A-Line, and many more shuttles. The buyers shop through the entries during the two week festival. Small dealers exhibitors earn an income at motels and wayside boutiques.

Sri Lanka gem dealers should do their best in promoting Facets Sri Lanka - the nations's gem festival. It needs to reach the level of a major international gem show.

This country has much to learn from the Tucson Gem Show in finding greater opportunities to promote the island's precious stones.