Brazil’s Jewelry Exports +41% in First Quarter ’06
Diamonds.net, NY
(Rapaport…BNamericas) Exports from Brazil’s jewelry industry are expected to reach $1 billion in 2006, Natália Salomão, marketing and communications manager of the country’s gems and jewelry trade association IBGM told BNamericas.
Exports include uncut and cut gems. “By comparison exports last year came in at $834 million,” Salomão said.
In the first four months of 2006 jewelry exports came in at $335 million, up 41 percent year-over-year, Salomão said
“The increase is the result of work developed with Brazil’s export promotion agency Apex since 1999 to increase exports,” she said. Additional boosting efforts involved more participation in international trades fairs plus publishing magazine advertisements and performing marketing
initiatives in the trade press.
IBGM is a non-profit organization founded in 1977 and represents the entire production chain of Brazil’s gems and jewelry industry.
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