Exhibitors 2019
Session Insights
Developing & Sustaining A High-Performance Strategy for your Staff
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…
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Designers on the High Street
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…
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Gold Metal Loans from Banks & how to hedge at MCX
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…
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State of the Indian Jewellery Industry
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…
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Crystal gazing to discover India’s retail potential in jewellery
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…
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Understanding our Consumer & Changing Market Dynamics & The Latest in the world
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…
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The Jewellery Store of the Future
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…
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Grown Diamonds: An American & An Indian Perspective
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…
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Browser Based ERP – Managing the Jewellery Ecosystem
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…
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Innovatively Organising Your Jewellery Business in a Dynamically Changing Retail
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…
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The Power of Business Innovation
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…
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Bridal trends
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.…
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Building an aspirational brand
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…
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Leveraging digital and big data to transform the customer experience
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,…
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Essential winning principles of expanding your business
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…
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Volatility in precious metal prices, risk and mitigation via Futures and Options
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…
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Software as a productivity tool-case studies, Indian and Middle East jewellery markets
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…
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The importance of authenticating what retailers sell The IIDGR certificate
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…
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Is it possible to achieve brand loyalty with millennials
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…
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Knowing all about the right location
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…
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Using research to nurture brands
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,…
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Retail 2020: Organised for the future
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…
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Changing shopper landscape and its implications on jewellery industry
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…
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The science of leveraging brand value on the NSE’s SME platform
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…
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TRENDSETTERS RETAIL JEWELLER INDIA SUMMIT 2015: 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 determines which players are likely…
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PRIVATE EQUITY & FUNDING: OPPORTUNITIES
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…
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LATEST TRENDS SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
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…
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Designers Partnership with Retailers
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…
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State of the Industry
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.…
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E-Retail: A New Channel for Growth
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…
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BUSINESS & MERCHANDISING PLANNING
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.…
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TECHNOLOGY & SOFTWARE: AUTOMATING PROCESSES
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…
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GSI Retail Jeweller India Forum 2016 (Experts-led Growth)
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…
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The New Marketing Reality
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…
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India’s luxury decade (Understanding the new Indian luxury)
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…
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Build Your Business with Google: Be found
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…
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Business Mantras For Higher Profitability: Managing The Change
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…
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Trends in omni-channel retailing:
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…
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FUNDING FOR EXPANSION
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…
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Partner – Speak (Gemological Science International (GSI) )
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…
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Brand Marketing : How can we create brands that consumers love?
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…
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BUILDING THE DIAMOND BRIDE
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…
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Learn the Smart ways to maximize Mobile Marketing
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…
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GST & its Impact on credit capital & balance sheet
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…
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Undisclosed Mixing of Lab Grown Diamonds in Jewellery
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…
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Cross Category Retailing & Less is More
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…
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Internet Shoppers
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…
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Understanding the new order in Modern Retail Jewellery
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…
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Trendsetters Retail Jeweller
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…
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Retail Jeweller India Summit 2015
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…
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Retail Jeweller India Summit 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…
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