“Dubai surprised us yet again this year. These days, the aim of trade shows is for us to meet new customers and understand other areas and markets that we do not usually deal with. At JGTD, we came into contact with buyers from countries that we rarely reach, such as different parts of Africa, like Angola and Tunisia; Southeast Asia, and even Australia and New Zealand. We gathered interest in particular types of products, which also gave us the impetus to develop new references.”

“The show for us is good. At the exhibition, our strategy is not to make sales but to do networking and marketing, showcase our products and then take potential future orders. We met with buyers from Dubai, Doha, Bahrain, Switzerland, Singapore, Australia and Israel, among others.”

“We met with serious buyers and they like our coloured gemstone layouts. We have our own mine for Paraiba tourmaline and we source other coloured gemstones from our associate mines. In terms of production, we cut the material direct from the mine to our company.”

“I am very happy that I joined JGTD. I met a lot of interesting people who are interested in buying my collections. No photography, no video-recording – just people who have their own shops and who came to the show to buy. They are B2B buyers.”

“This is the second time that we are in this show. We did very well the first year, and we did better this year. The clientele is very serious here. Everybody has a purpose and they are fulfilling it. We are one of the larger buyers of rough emerald in the market today and we are cutting a wide variety of items. We make everything from singles, matched pairs and layouts, and we have a very deep stock. We also have sapphires, and we have set up a cutting factory in Sri Lanka as well.”

“This market has a lot of potential for Colombian emeralds. People are looking for different types of goods in different qualities. Since the customers are coming from different places, they all have different preferences. We also introduced at the show the Colombian emerald industry’s Butterfly Conservation Project, which aims to conserve and protect Colombia’s beautiful butterflies and their habitat.”

“All of the clients that we met here were good, and we are looking forward to doing business with them. We saw buyers from the UAE, Europe and Canada. They are looking for big-sized stones.”