Apr 06, 2020

  [caption id="attachment_6037" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] (L-R)Moderator:  Pranay Narvekar, Partner, Pharos Beam Consulting, Chirag Soni, Co-founder, and Director, SGL, Jignesh Mehta, Founder and MD, Divine Solitaires, Jithendra Vummidi, Director, VBJ[/caption]     The topic of the…

Apr 06, 2020

  [caption id="attachment_6033" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Sandeep Ranade, Executive Director, Co-lead Quantitative - West, Insights, Kantar[/caption]   The discussion in the fifth session of this year’s RJIF centred round how to win consumers in the smartphone…

Apr 06, 2020

[caption id="attachment_6030" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Abhishek Rastogi, Head of Design - Jewellery Division, Titan Company Limited[/caption] The fourth session of the event was about design, a bit of Bollywood, and lots of style. The topic was…

Apr 05, 2020

  [caption id="attachment_6015" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Sachin Jain, President, Forevermark India[/caption]   The third session of RJIF 2020 was right up the alley of retailers who are looking for ways to engage with millennials, as it…

Apr 05, 2020

[caption id="attachment_6076" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Shailen Mehta, Co-founder & MD, E Johri[/caption] The second session of RJIF 2020 was devoted to online commerce in the jewellery industry. The speaker, Shailen Mehta, Co-founder & MD, E Johri,…

Apr 05, 2020

[caption id="attachment_6006" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Rishikesh Trivedi, Digital Transformation Advisor, Suntech Business Solutions[/caption]   The first session of the Retail Jeweller India Forum 2020 dealt with how technology can be used to drive a customer-centric approach.…

Apr 01, 2019

Empower employees to derive better performance from them The SGL Retail Jeweller India Forum, had interesting insights to share. The session ‘Developing and sustaining a high-performance strategy for your staff’ talked about the challenges which…

Mar 29, 2019

How to make your brand tick The SGL Retail Jeweller India Forum 2019 had a session on ‘Designers on the high street’, which talked about creativity and the various ways to attract the attention of…

Mar 29, 2019

          Hedging at MCX can assure capital safety The SGL Retail Jeweller India Forum 2019 hosted a session on “Gold metal loans from banks and how to hedge at MCX”, which…

Mar 29, 2019

Ways out of the slump: answers from the frontrunners Can the jewellery industry develop its own path out of the prolonged market slump? At the SGL Retail Jeweller India Forum 2019, a panel discussion was dedicated…

Mar 29, 2019

Help millennials associate with jewellery to check spending in other verticals Do not overlook millennials.” This was Devang Shah’s message, in his presentation titled “Crystal-gazing to discover India’s retail potential in jewellery”. His reasoning was…

Mar 29, 2019

  Going digital for targeted advertising The SGL Retail Jeweller India Forum 2019, which was held recently, hosted a session on ‘Understanding our consumers and changing market dynamics, and the latest in the world of…

Mar 29, 2019

Relations, stories and magic’: insights into the jewellery store of the future The SGL Retail Jeweller India Forum 2019 featured a session on the jewellery store of the future. The session was presented by Sachin…

Mar 29, 2019

Grown diamonds an opportunity if awareness and differentiation prevail The SGL Retail Jeweller India Forum 2019 held a session on ‘Grown diamonds: An American and an Indian perspective’, which centred round Lab-grown Diamonds (LGD), or…

Mar 28, 2019

Data, decision-making and customer delight  Data is empowering. Enterprises that enjoy the benefits of a unified system, with relevant data at their employees’ fingertips, are more efficient and enjoy quicker sales conversion. This was the…

Mar 28, 2019

  Mantras to master change Price wars, rate fluctuations and uncertainty in the market: these are just three facets of the challenging new normal for India’s gems and jewellery industry. As always, it is the…

Mar 28, 2019

Professor Piyush Kumar Sinha - CRI Advisory & Research - IIM Ahmedabad   Recipe for innovation: ethics, emotions and differentiation: The opening presentation at the SGL Retail Jeweller India Forum 2019 was titled, simply and…

May 16, 2018

Brides today are decision makers who have no qualms about disrupting traditions and even the minutest of preparation needs their nod of approval. After all, changes today are the benchmark for future generations to follow.…

May 16, 2018

Vishwas Parikh Group Operations Manager-Mouawad In an increasingly competitive environment, family jewellers rely on the power and reach of their legacy and heritage to create brands that survive the test of time and make a…

May 16, 2018

Maneesh Mittal Head-Ecommerce & Big Data-Infiniti Retail Ltd. (CROMA) The customer-retailer relationship in today’s world of Big Data and omni-channel shopping is complex. As retailers actively engage with customers across various touch points, including websites,…

May 16, 2018

Vivette D’cruz Director - Consumer Products & Retail - Ernst & Young LLP A retailer may have the money and required infrastructure to set up new stores but that doesn’t necessarily mean that his business has…

May 16, 2018

Shivanshu Mehta Head-Bullion, MCX - Metal & Energy Gold and silver are vital inputs for jewellery manufacturing — but the base prices of these precious metals are highly volatile. This can hurt fabrication margins in…

May 16, 2018

Dr Minesh Shah Managing Director-Effission Software Pvt. Ltd. What are the parameters on which jewellery retailers compete? Is it just design and product quality that differentiate one retailer from another, or are there other focal…

May 16, 2018

Amitabha Das Head Operations - IIDGR, Surat Synthetics and treated diamonds are polluting the entire diamond supply chain. On one hand, retailers are to be blamed for sourcing them directly from the market and on…

May 16, 2018

Hitesh Malhotra Chief Operating Officer-NYKAA The age of information and connectivity has powered millennials with endless product options and an equally baffling number of ways to assist them in making a choice. However, what makes…

May 16, 2018

Aparajita Basak Associate Director - Micro Marketing & Economics - Neilsen India Ltd. It’s true that many millennials now shop online, but for all those consumers who prefer to shop in the real world, jewellers…

May 16, 2018

Shaveta Bhardwaj Head of West-Kantar Milward Brown In this world of 24x7 data, it has become possible to make high-quality brand decisions very fast. When used well, this potential offers a significant advantage. After all,…

May 16, 2018

Ankur Bisen  Sr. Vice President-Retail & Consumer Products division-Technopak At the Retail Jeweller India Forum 2018, the opening presentation took a hard look at the challenges and opportunities that the jewellery industry as a whole…

May 16, 2018

Sushmita Balasubramaniam Practice Head-South Asia - Kantar Shopping Insights The Indian consumer landscape is in the midst of transformational change. We can look at millennials, with their growing independent earning power, as one facet of…

May 16, 2018

The jewellery industry in India is teeming with a number of small and medium enterprises with impressive legacies. Keeping these businesses in mind, the NSE created a SME stock exchange for companies who aren’t yet…

Aug 04, 2017

As our industry gears up for new possibilities and a new phase of growth, we have come to realise that it is knowledge — knowledge across the spectrum — that determines which players are likely…

Aug 04, 2017

Opportunities & Future: Smart capital for jewellers In spite of making one of the biggest PE losses with its investment in Vaibhav Gems, Warburg Pincus surprised the community and restored faith in the gems and…

Aug 04, 2017

Luring buyers on social media Marketing is no more restricted to traditional advertisements in newspapers. As they say, go where your consumers are. Given that 140 million Indians are on Facebook, 35 million each on…

Aug 04, 2017

Designerification in retail As there is an increase in aspirational and well-travelled consumers, jewellers have felt the need to engage more intensively with designers, particularly celebrity designers. These designers don't just bring in a new…

Aug 04, 2017

Keeping pace with consumers Over half of India’s population is less than 25 years old. This means that Indian consumers are divided into two segments — those born before 1989 and those born after 1989.…

Aug 04, 2017

Upselling online Ecommerce as a whole in India was estimated to be worth ₹400 billion in 2013, of which pure-play marketplaces and niche vertical players constituted about 18 and 17 per cent respectively. Going online…

Aug 04, 2017

How to plan your business & merchandise Been there, done that... and still helping jewellers to grow their business. A Shivaram, founder, Retail Gurukul, tells you how to take the leap to the next level.…

Aug 04, 2017

Technology for wider reach As you expand your business or build complexities, either you require a mind that remembers everything or technology-driven processes. For most jewellers, one of the biggest challenges involved in expansion is…

Jul 28, 2017

The GSI Retail Jeweller India Forum 2016 (RJIF), in its second edition, offered jewellers the information and insights they need to begin to orient themselves for success in the changing retail environment — including how…

Jul 28, 2017

Anita Kotwani, Leader, Client Leadership, Mindshare West At the GSI Retail Jeweller India Forum (RJIF) 2016, the opening presentation was titled “The New Marketing Reality”. Speaker Anita Kotwani, leader, client leadership, Mindshare West, offered acute…

Jul 28, 2017

Understanding the new Indian luxury consumer and capturing the luxury rupee Gaurav Bhatia, Founder & CEO Gaurav Bhatia– A Luxury Advisory Cell Let us end the commoditisation of jewellery, said Gaurav Bhatia, cutting right to…

Jul 28, 2017

 Debraj Gupta, Manager, New Business Sales, Google What is that one idea that will transform your business? What particular moonshot will help you grow 10 times?' Challenge yourself by setting targets that defy your usual…

Jul 28, 2017

A Shivaram, Founder, Retail Gurukul When an FM radio channel in Chennai starts broadcasting Bollywood Hindi film songs all day long instead of Tamil melodies, people are naturally surprised. But, as retail training expert A…

Jul 28, 2017

What does it mean to go omni-channel, as a retail jeweller? How to do this? What are the upsides, the potential pitfalls? Nobody can answer these questions better than the brains trust for this highly…

Jul 28, 2017

The gems and jewellery industry has been growing at an incredible pace. From a Rs. 17000-crore industry 10 years back, it has grown to Rs. 250,000-crore industry. The most interesting aspect of the growth story…

Jul 28, 2017

Gemological Science International (GSI) established in 2005 in New York is one of the largest gemological laboratories in the world. From the day one, when GSI opened its door in New York, we are committed…

Jul 05, 2017

Richa Singh, (Ex-GM, L’Oreal) It never pays to presume that the consumer is a timid and unchanging entity, constrained by tradition because jewellery is a high ticket-price category. In this session of the Retail Jeweller…

Jul 05, 2017

Shaziya Khan Senior Vice President & Executive Planning Director JWT In her presentation Shaziya Khan, director planning, J. Walter Thompson explored a case study from her own career. A client had assigned her agency the…

Jul 05, 2017

Lavin Punjabi CEO & Co-founder, mCanvas Advertising Pvt. Ltd.   Mobile telecommunications are changing the world for marketers. Mobile phones are becoming the default choice of channel for brands that wish to connect with younger…

Jul 05, 2017

  India's new tax system was the anxiety-inducing subject of the third session of RJIF 2017, titled 'GST and its impact on credit, capital and balance sheet and the way of conducting the jewellery business…

Jul 05, 2017

How to protect your business for consumer confidence:-  The 20th century messed with the perfect metaphor of the diamond as immortal and changeless. The first synthetic diamond was produced in 1954, by applying high pressure…

Jul 05, 2017

Nakshatra Mehta MD,Rare Heritage by Mehta Emporium Second-generation jeweller Nakshatra Mehta has come a long way. From a small shop at Zaveri Bazaar he now runs a one-stop bridal luxury couture jewellery store. In the…

Jul 05, 2017

Challenges and Opportunities of Selling beyond known boundaries:- The jewellery industry, generally considered slow-paced, is in the midst of a handful of rapid transformations. In some of them the pace of change is propelled by…

Jul 05, 2017

The final session of the Retail Jeweller India Forum 2017 explored the growth drivers of modern retail. Panellists representing independent family jewellers, as well as regional and national chain jewellers, focused on consumption growth driven…

Jun 16, 2017

Accelerating Knowledge - Focused Growth As our industry gears up for new possibilities and a new phase of growth, we have come to realise that it is knowledge — knowledge across the spectrum — that…

Jun 15, 2017

Accelerating Knowledge - Focused Growth As our industry gears up for new possibilities and a new phase of growth, we have come to realise that it is knowledge — knowledge across the spectrum — that…

Oct 08, 2016

Accelerating Knowledge - Focused Growth As our industry gears up for new possibilities and a new phase of growth, we have come to realise that it is knowledge — knowledge across the spectrum — that…