Platinum Guild International (PGI) India concluded yet another successful edition of its annual Platinum Buyer-Seller Meet, on the 4th-5th July 2024. Held at the Grand Hyatt, Kochi, the recently concluded event, continued to serve as a significant business opportunity for partner retailers and manufacturers under the PGI program to share new designs, innovations, cutting-edge technology and best practices while reviewing the latest platinum jewellery collections. Every year, the prestigious event, brings together the leading names from across the jewellery industry and offers them a platform to collaborate and work towards collective business development for platinum.
The energy and enthusiasm across the manufacturer booths reaffirmed the growing demand for platinum jewellery across all three PGI brands – Platinum Evara, Men of Platinum and Platinum Love Bands.
Retailers were also given an exclusive preview of the highly anticipated MS Dhoni Signature Collection, set to launch later this year, just in time for the festive and wedding season. The overall demand for platinum was evident in the substantial purchases and restocking undertaken by the retailers for the upcoming season.
The event witnessed a key announcement on the metal innovation front as well, with the creation of a new platinum alloy that has the potential to transform platinum jewellery design and manufacturing. Inoveo Platinum, has been formulated in response to the challenges jewellers experience when working with platinum.
In his presentation Benny Oeyen, Executive Head of Market Development for Platinum Group Metals, Anglo American said, “Inoveo Platinum will provide the jewellery industry the best that platinum can provide. It is a new platinum alloy created with the help of artificial intelligence and digital chemistry to reflect the workability of white gold, while enhancing the core properties of Platinum, including its naturally white colour, durability and wear resistance. So Inoveo Platinum is all about the benefits of Platinum with the ease of white gold. It will help transform platinum jewellery design and manufacturing.”
The evening gala dinner was prefaced by key addresses and presentations by Vaishali Banerjee, Managing Director, PGI India and Tim Schlick, Chief Executive Officer, Platinum Guild International (PGI) outlining the accelerated growth of platinum jewellery in the Indian market. Sujala Martis, Director Consumer Marketing, shared the marketing programme line-up for the season. The exciting upcoming marketing initiative with M S Dhoni got an overwhelmingly response.
The Evara Squad, a unique idea to build cheerleaders and brand evangelists for women’s platinum jewellery was met with high interest from retailers and manufacturers.
A brief overview of the upcoming trade agenda was shared by Pallavi Sharma, Business Director PGI India. She stressed on driving volume growth, and emphasised on the criticality of delivering higher profitability via the proven success of exclusive designs in bi-metal jewellery across categories and differentiating to create value for the consumer via retailer exclusive collections in platinum.