August worked well for their first Christmas buying

The Jewellery Show London, which launched this week at Somerset House, has been declared "an outstanding success" by the event organisers i2i events group as it confirmed that 2, 000 top visitors attended and an freakish number of exhibitors have re-applied for space for 2013.

Exposure Director, Julie Driscoll, said that: "I have had fantastic feedback from a number of our jewellery designers and brands who have been very impressed by the calibre of buyers attending the first Jewellery Show London. Everyone said on what great the Show looked and that it was the perfect environment to attract serious retail jewellers who are looking for new, innovative and unique jewellery collections to hold their businesses as dynamic and successful as they are. inch

She confirmed that many exhibitors had already re-applied to take space in 2013 as had companies that were on the waiting list for the launch show.

There was strong support for the timing of the Jewellery Show London with retailers confirming that August worked well for their first Christmas buying.

Buyers attending the Show included many of the Britian's leading independent retail jewellers. such as Green and Benz and Trend, members from the key industry buying groups, the company of Master Jewellers and the Houlden Group, the key multiples such as Mappin and Webb, Goldsmiths and Beaverbrooks as well as buyers from top department store groups such as Harrods, Fenwicks, and John Lewis amongst a great many others.

As well as seeing 90 companies who have been displaying at Somerset House, visitors to the Show attended packed sessions at the full workshop programme that saw top industry speakers including Annoushka Ducas, founder of Links of London, Fei Liu, founder of Fei Liu Fine Jewellery, Eily Ong, Head of Investment from the World Gold Local authority or council and Chip Moore, Head of Item Research at RBS Global Banking Markets.