The gold-jewelry market is confidently looking at the coming edition of VOS Vicenzaoro September – The Jewellery Boutique Show, the international jewelry show organized by Italian Exhibition Group. It will be live, Sept. 10-14, in Italy, at Vicenza, together with T.Gold, the show for machinery and the most innovative technologies applied to jewelry processing, and VOVintage, the event specifically for high-quality vintage watches.
The chief executive officer of IEG, Corrado Peraboni (pictured left), says, “VOS will be the first international event of the year for this sector in Europe.”
Fope, Roberto Coin, Crivelli, Bros Manifatture, Unoaerre, Graziella Group, Chrysos, Karizia, World Diamond Group are among the big names already booked in. The expectation is one of business and networking with a global audience.
The VBI – Vicenzaoro Buyer Index, which periodically tracks the attitudes of a representative panel of jewelry insiders from all over the world, highlighted in June that confidence in future business has more than doubled compared to last year. Growing equally fast is the willingness of buyers from the Middle East and North America, as well as Europe and Italy, to take part in a physically attended VOS.
On display at VOS 21, high-range jewelry and goldsmithing, components and semi-processed goods, diamonds, precious and colored stones, visual merchandising, packaging and processing technologies. Space will also be given to independent brands in the modern watch segment, while the high-quality vintage watches in VOVintage will be joined by leading experts on Rolex and Patek Philippe.
All VOS international buyers will also have an excellent opportunity to encounter art, good food and hospitality in the splendid ancient city of Vicenza and the Land of Venice.
Italian Exhibition Group, listed on the MTA (screen-based stock exchange) organized and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A., has built up over the years, through its Rimini and Vicenza venues, a position of domestic leadership in the organization of trade fairs and conferences, and has developed its foreign activities, also through joint ventures with global or local organizers, in the United States, United Arab Emirates, China, Mexico, India, which have positioned it among the leading European operators in the sector. For more info, visit www.iegexpo.it/en/