Visitor traffic to the 35th edition of the India International Jewellery Show (IIJS) 2018 soared past the 40,000 mark for the first time in the history of the show, with the numbers resulting in significant business being transacted as well. The halls continued to be relatively full and many booths were still fairly packed with visitors even in the post-lunch sessions, something not too common on the final day of such a large show.

The Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) announced today that it will be shortly opening registrations for the second edition of the Bharat Diamond Week to be held from October 8-10, 2018 at the Bourse complex in Mumbai.

Across the Halls at IIJS 2018, if there was one overarching “trend” – if one can call it that -- common to virtually all displays, it was the emphasis on design, an attempt to create something different from the particular company’s usual offering. Clearly the eye was firly on the new, younger, consumer market – the Millennials, as the pundits have defined.

That India’s jewellery industry is moving steadily into a modern era, with a rising interest in what technology and machinery can do to transform businesses was amply evident in the crowds that thronged the machinery section of the 35th edition of the India International Jewellery Show (IIJS) 2018, now perhaps among the largest of its kind in the world.