New JewelPoint Event Aims to Connect Traders

RAPAPORT… A new industry networking event, JewelPoint, is set to
launch later this year, connecting private-label manufacturers with US buyers.



JewelPoint will help bring together buyers and suppliers of
hard-to-source gold, loose gemstones, unbranded finished-gemstone jewelry and
estate jewelry. The event is intended to complement regular trade shows rather
than replace them.



The first edition will take place from October 9 to 11 in
San Diego. It follows the success of GoldPoint, an earlier event its founders
organized for the gold trade, according to the company.



Nancy Robey, a strategic adviser on fine jewelry (pictured, left), and Holly
Granofsky, a jewelry executive and former president of the New York Jewelers
Group (right), created the concept after conducting research into traders’ needs, they
said. They launched GoldPoint in 2017, and will hold the next edition of that
event in February 2019.



“Many traditional and regional chain stores simply don’t have the time or resources necessary to travel overseas to attend trade shows
or meet with manufacturers and suppliers, and even if they are able to carve
out the time, they face another obstacle in knowing how to work with these
markets and who they can trust,” Robey and Granofsky said recently.