NATIONAL GEM AND JEWELLERY AUTHORITY (NGJA)

NATIONAL GEM AND JEWELLERY AUTHORITY (NGJA)
MINISTRY OF ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT & INVESTMENT PROMOTION

YET ANOTHER FACILITY INTRODUCED BY THE
NATIONAL GEM & JEWELLERY AUTHORITY (N.G.J.A)

We are pleased to announce the following event as the 19th step of a Lecture Series organized by the N.G.J.A. with the collaboration of the SLGJA (Lapidary Segment) for the benefit of the members of the trade.

Topic - gem buying experience in Africa and fair trade ethics in the luxury goods market
Date - Monday the 17th august 2009
Time - 3.30 to 5.00 P.M
Venue - Auditorium (2nd Floor).
National Gem & Jewellery Authority
25, Galle Face Terrace, Colombo 03.

RESOURCE PERSON – Mr. Guy Clutterbuck – G.G.(GIA)


PARTICIPATION IS FREE OF CHARGE

For Registration and Information please contact Export Promotion Division
on 2390645-8 Ext. 241 or mail us at gemautho@sltnet.lk on or before 14.08.2009.

National Gem & Jewellery Authority.
(Export promotion Division)
No. 25, Galle Face Terrace,
Colombo 03.
Tel No. 2390645/8 Ext. 241
E.mail –gemautho@sltnet.lk
WebSite:www.srilankagemautho.com

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

SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING OF THE GEM & JEWELLERY SECTOR - SRI LANKA

SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING OF THE GEM & JEWELLERY SECTOR PROPOSED TO BE HELD ON 30/04/2008 AT 3.00P.M. AT THE NCE

We are pleased to inform you, that the Council of the NCE has decided to set up subcommittees covering all the products/services sectors of members of the NCE.

The purpose of these subcommittees is to discuss policy and operational issues of the different sectors with a view to prepare strategic plans and to make representations to the relevant state authorities and institutions to resolve issues, based on the strategic developmental plans of the sector.

In this regard the NCE has set up a subcommittee for the Gems & Jewellery sector comprising of the following members.

01. Mr. Anura Eliyapura - Chairman / Managing Director, Raja Jewellers (Pvt) Ltd - (Council Member of NCE and Chairman of Subcommittee)

02. Mr. Srinarth Fernando - Director, Ceylinco Worldwide Trading (Pvt.) Ltd

03. Mr. A.P. Jayarajah - CEO, Wellawatta Nithiyakalyani Jewellery

The subcommittee meeting of the Gems & Jewellery sector is proposed to be held on 30/04/2008 at 3.00p.m. at the Auditorium of the NCE (160/2, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo-04).

We would also appreciate if you could send us your proposals and suggestions regarding the current issues of the sector which needs attention, by 25th April 2008 the latest.

Your cooperation in this regard will be greatly appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

RASA WEERASINGHAM
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR