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Voice did it, a doubt remains




It is easy to imagine the president of Ieg (the company that organizes Vicenzaoro), Lorenzo Cagnoni, last spring in the Hamlet version, while reciting the famous monologue: to be or not to be? That is the question. That is: to be Vicenzaoro, and to propose again one of the most important appointments in the world for jewelry, or not to be and cancel the appointment, as other trade fairs have done? With some courage the company has chosen to be a third way: Voice.

Esterno a Voice
Esterno a Voice

Defined as a jewelry summit, Voice has proved to be first of all an attempt to restart the sector, requested first of all by Italian companies. Being able to set up Voice, despite the health emergency is still a ball and chain for the business, is already a success. Of course, the organizers stressed, we shouldn’t expect it to be was the usual Vicenzaoro with the only difference in the masks to wear. And while many big brands have chosen to be present, others, especially those that sell a lot abroad, have deserted the appointment. It was predictable.
Voice, interno
Voice, interno

But, in any case, the official balance sheet indicates 370 companies present, a hundred speakers in the over 600 business matching meetings organized by Ieg (one third online), with a dense schedule of appointments, seminars, conferences and talk shows. In the virtual buyers rooms, created to make up for the reduced presence of foreign buyers, over 200 commercial exchanges took place. The contents generated in the pavilions have had over 3.5 million views on digital channels. Voice, in fact, blended the physical presence at the fair with online channels. A sober, but not spartan, staging has kept the balance with the atmosphere of challenge to the stop caused by the coronavirus.
Lorenzo Cagnoni, presidente di Ieg
Lorenzo Cagnoni, presidente di Ieg

In short, it went well. But the Hamletic dilemma will arise again shortly, given that the next appointment is called, for now, Vicenzaoro January. To be or not to be? Is it possible to propose a fair like the one in previous years if the pandemic has not completely ceased or, at least, has also been reduced from a psychological point of view? Or will Ieg be induced to re-propose the Voice format? The one held in Vicenza was been the only event dedicated to jewelery from February onwards in the world. It was a risk, but we can say that the game was won. With a little out of wheezing, though.

Una virtual buyer room
Una virtual buyer room

Vetrina di Roberto Coin. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Vetrina di Roberto Coin. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Espositore di gioielli Antonini
Espositore di gioielli Antonini

Voice
Voice







Voice Vicenzaoro starts




Bet won or bet lost? Voice Vicenzaoro (Saturday 12 to Monday 14 September) is, in practice, the only major event related to jewelry (It’s to be checked Istanbul Jewelry Show in October) that is not stopped or transformed with a digital cosmetics due to covid. Voice Vicenzaoro, however, does not want to be a lame edition of the fairs dedicated to jewelry. Ieg, the company that organizes Vicenzaoro, has in fact studied a somewhat different form. But how different?
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With many talk shows and seminars, obviously also online, and with exhibitors who have adapted to more sober exhibition spaces. The planned events are organized in several areas of the Vicenza exhibition center and an innovative integration with the most sophisticated television direction systems and digital equipment will allow the live online of all talks and seminars, also visible in streaming on YouTube, Instagram, FB for to allow its continuation in every part of the world.

Voice Talk
Voice Talk

Voice is above all a summit, specified the International Exhposition Group, which has the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ice (export body), Confindustria Federorafi, Confartigianato, Cna, Apindustria, Confcommercio, Assocoral and, at international, Cibjo, the World Confederation of Jewelry.
VicenzaOro January, visitatori nel booth di Giovanni Ferraris
VicenzaOro January, visitatori nel booth di Giovanni Ferraris. Copyright: gioiellis.com

There are 350 companies on the field and, although some big names in jewelry present at the “normal” editions are missing, it already seems a success. Not to mention that outside, in Vicenza, Vioff was confirmed, which includes a series of collateral events. In short, a lot of luxury to exorcise the covid.
VicenzaOro January 2020. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro January 2020. Copyright: gioiellis.com







Jewelery 2021? It will be fluid




What will jewelry be like in the next two years? As always Vicenzaoro, which this year is replaced by the Voice format, Trendvision Jewelery + Forecasting, the first independent Italian Exhibition Group Observatory specialized in forecasts for the sector, tries to answer. This year the appointment is organized as part of the TV Talk with the title Predictions 2021-22. Emerging Phenomena, Panorama and Forecast 2022. The appointment is scheduled for Monday 14 September at 2.30 pm in the Voice space at Fiera Vicenza, and will also be streamed on the website and on the event’s YouTube and Facebook profiles.

Collana di perle per uomo di Mikimoto
Collana di perle per uomo di Mikimoto

In summary, we can already anticipate the result of the analysis: the trends of the coming years are cultural blending, spirituality and gender fluid. The jewel of the post-Covid restart will be inspired by the craftsmanship of the traditional techniques of India, Europe and South America revisited by young emerging designers. Jewelry will also have the ambition to instill a new spirituality in the wearer, an experience of transcendence that manifests itself through talismans and amulets, an expression of a holistic approach to life. In short, farewell technology, we look to the Middle Ages. At the same time, the jewels will be unisex: they will overcome the gender divisions, proposing themselves to the single individual and aligning themselves with his understanding of life, rejecting any forced and oppressive characterization. Women who will wear the heavy chains chosen by men so far? Or males who will delight in delicate rose gold jewelry? In a scenario necessarily impacted by the global pandemic, Trendvision reveals, the revolutions triggered by #MeToo and the movement for awareness on climate change are pushing towards ethics and sustainability, values ​​shared by Millennials and Gen Z.

Il rapper A$AP Ferg all’evento di presentazione della collezione Tiffany Men’s
Il rapper A$AP Ferg all’evento di presentazione della collezione Tiffany Men’s

The next trend is also the use of innovative techniques, games of contrasts between enamels, colored natural stones, glass and ceramics. A reality that is continuous contamination, fusion, synergy and dialogue, in which there is the awareness that the recovery will have to enhance all parts of the whole, through a virtuous and respectful fusion.
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In short, all topics at the center of the meeting scheduled on the interactive stage set up in the heart of Hall 7, The Stage of Voice, with Paola De Luca, Founder and Creative Director of Trendvision Jewelery + Forecasting, and David Brough, Founder and Editor in Chief of Jewelery Outlook, event presenters and moderators during talk-show moments. To follow, the presentation of The Jewelery Trendbook 2022+.
VicenzaOro september 2018. Copyright gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro september 2018. Copyright gioiellis.com







There are 350 exhibitors at Voice Vicenzaoro




Who would have bet on such a large participation in Voice Vicenzaoro, the format that replaces the classic September trade fair dedicated to jewelry? Yet, in the end, more than 350 exhibitors attended the event (12 to 14 September) organized by the Italian Exhibition Group in Vicenza.

Tra i booth di VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Tra i booth di VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com

The first to join the new formula, in the format suggested by the brake imposed by the health emergency, were Damiani, Crivelli, Leo Pizzo, Mirco Visconti, Fope, Roberto Coin, Pesavento, Karizia, Chrysos, Ronco, Chiampesan, Riccardo Orsato, Alessi Domenico, Silvex, Daveri Vicenza, Unoaerre, Giordini, Richline, Fratelli Chini, Quadrifoglio, Amen, Annamaria Cammilli, Rosato, Pianegonda, Brosway, Rue des Milles, Aucella, Bruno Mazza, Coscia, De Simone, Idea Coral, Mattia Mazza, Enzo Liverino.
Rendering di un'area destinata ai talk show a Voice Vicenzaoro
Rendering di un’area destinata ai talk show a Voice Vicenzaoro

Then, other important brands were added, such as the St. Petersburg fashion house Fabergé, Mattioli, Vendorafa, Antonini, Bronzallure, Better Silver, Songa, Ronco, Italgold, the Richline Group, Giordini, F.lli Chini, Golden Clef, Chiampesan , Pianegonda, Amen, Italian cameo. With a watchmaking niche, with Victorinox, Meccaniche Veneziane and the German Junghans.
Team room di Italian Exhibition Group a VicenzaOro
Team room di Italian Exhibition Group a VicenzaOro

All exhibitors can enhance their creations thanks to the online catalog available on the website and on the App of the event, enhanced and renewed for the occasion. During the event, Inspiration boards, photos and posts made by the Vicenzaoro cool-hunters in search of inspiration among the exhibitors’ windows will also be available.
VicenzaOro September 2019. Copyright: gioiellis,com
VicenzaOro September 2019. Copyright: gioiellis,com







The Voice-Vicenzaoro program




With small steps, but with a loud Voice. The stages of approach foreseen by Ieg to Voice, the alternative event (12 to 14 September 2020) in Vicenzaoro, cintempate the schedule of the scheduled meetings: it is no coincidence that Voice is the acronym of Vicenzaoro International Community Event, an innovative format that Italian Exhibition Group organizes with the involvement of 300 companies present and training events. Here, then, are the main events in the spaces of the Vicenza Fair.
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Saturday 12 September. Interview with Jerome Favier, CEO of Damiani, French top manager in charge of the Italian brand. The How we see the Future talk, more, will present the point of view of the new generations of entrepreneurs between contaminations from the fashion world, digital innovation, inspirations from new tools. On Saturday afternoon, focus on sustainability, a delicate development area for the market that requires ever-increasing attention and innovation from companies, with two Cibjo seminars dedicated to the post-covid effects on CSR and sustainability and the entrepreneurial initiative of five African artists and designers.

Voice Talk
Voice Talk

Sunday 13 September. Innovation and technology are the topics of talks and in-depth meetings organized in collaboration with the Club degli Orafi Italia. Among the contents, exclusively in Vicenza, De Beers presents the Insight on the diamond sector. The collaboration between Assocoral and Cibjo is renewed, this time with a central objective: the classification of the range of colors of the Mediterranean coral.
Tra i booth di VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Tra i booth di VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Monday 14 September. Trends and design with the VO + Talk entitled Filling the gap: what’s missing between Brand and Retail, in addition to the classic appointment with Trendvision Talk on the cultural phenomena and the style directions of Trendvision Jewelery + Forecasting, the independent observatory on the jewel of Ieg which also presents the 19th The Jewelery Trendbook 2022+, in digital version, with advances on the purchasing trends of the coming months. The online anti-counterfeiting talk, tools and strategies organized by Assorologi with the presence of important players in the sector are also dedicated to watches. The President Mario Peserico spoke and moderation was entrusted to Dody Giussani, Editor in Chief of The Clock.
Un aspetto del piano #safebusiness by Ieg
Un aspetto del piano #safebusiness by Ieg

Corrado Peraboni, Ceo di Ieg
Corrado Peraboni, Ceo di Ieg







Voice-Vicenzaoro with 300 companies and many big names




Vicenzaoro has been suspended. Long live Vicenzaoro. Which, however, in September is called Voice. If the health emergency led Ieg (the company that organizes Vicenzaoro) to transform the format of the event by also changing the name, the companies in the sector have a strong need to show their production to buyers, that the appointment is called Vicenzaoro o Voice doesn’t matter. This is what can be deduced from the announcement that, in July, the companies that have chosen to exhibit their jewels at Voice-Vicenzaoro International Community Event (12 to 14 September) exceed 300.

Booth di Fope, VicenzaOro January 2018. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Booth di Fope, VicenzaOro January 2018. Copyright: gioiellis.com

About 300 companies means a very limited drop of about 15% compared to last year’s attendance. And taking into account that the major fairs, not only of jewelery, have been postponed to next year, number of registration to Voice is a success, perhaps unexpected. In short, Vicenzaoro, ops, Voice has a strong attraction. The names that have already reserved their space also testify to this.
VicenzaOro January 2020. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro January 2020. Copyright: gioiellis.com

For example, Damiani, Crivelli, Leo Pizzo, Mirco Visconti, Fope, Roberto Coin, Pesavento, Karizia, Chrysos, Ronco, Chiampesan, Riccardo Orsato, Alessi Domenico, Silvex, Daveri Vicenza, Unoaerre, Giordini, Richline, Fratelli Chini, Quadrifoglio, Amen, Annamaria Cammilli, Rosato, Pianegonda, Brosway, Rue des Milles. And there will also be companies from Campania, specialists in the processing of corals and cameos, such as Aucella, Bruno Mazza, Coscia, De Simone, Idea Coral, Mattia Mazza, Enzo Liverino.
VicenzaOro september 2018. Copyright gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro september 2018. Copyright gioiellis.com

VicenzaOro January 2019. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro January 2019. Copyright: gioiellis.com







VicenzaOro September canceled, in its place is Voice




VicenzaOro September is officially canceled. He won the covid-19. Instead, Voice is born, a new format. The great Italian jewelery fair suffered the same fate as Couture and Baselworld, who had to surrender to the health emergency. Of course, in Italy the pandemic has almost disappeared, but in other parts of the world it is raging and this, according to the organizers, would have compromised the September meeting in Vicenza. Italian Exhibition Group, the company that organizes the event, therefore decided to postpone everything to the January appointment.

Nel booth di Roberto Demeglio. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Nel booth di Roberto Demeglio. Copyright: gioiellis.com

As a partial alternative, Ieg proposes the Voice format, an acronym for Vicenzaoro International Community Event, between Saturday 12 and Monday 14 September 2020. The name of the event alludes, in fact, to the idea of ​​giving voice to the protagonists of the jewelery chain. Obviously it is not the same as VicenzaOro, even if Voice will have the patronage of a series of institutions: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ice Agency (organization of the State to encourage exports), Confindustria Federorafi, Confartigianato, Cna, Apindustria, Confcommercio , Assocoral and, internationally, Cibjo, the world jewelry confederation.
VicenzaOro January 2020. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro January 2020. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Voice, in the intentions, will be a meeting opportunity to discuss the state of the industry and the next challenges with opinion leaders. Topics: sustainability, trend & design, innovation & technology with institutional moments and technical talks.
VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com

The events will unfold over several areas of the Vicenza Fair, including television and live directing systems of all talks and seminars, also visible in streaming on Youtube, Instagram, Facebook. However, the part dedicated to the product is not missing: the most courageous companies in the supply chain, who challenge the fear of contagion, will present the new collections. The Buyer Virtual Room project will be activated for foreign buyers who cannot be present: meetings scheduled by the exhibitors themselves through the I-Mop Ieg Meeting Omnichannel Platform. The Voice event will also live outside the Vicenza Fair, in the city, with Vioff, this time titled The new golden way.
Gioielli esposti a VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Gioielli esposti a VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com







Cancelled International Jewelery London too




Another fair dedicated to jewelry has been canceled: Reed Exhibitions has announced that International Jewelery London, scheduled at Alexandra Palace from 13 to 15 September, will not be held due to the covid-19 pandemic. “Following UK government guidelines and comprehensive discussions with our customers, public health authorities and partner organisations, we do not believe that we are in a position to host a large scale gathering of the community in September without compromising the key valuable elements of IJL ”explains a note from the organizer. International Jewelery London has been held for 65 years.

La passata edizione di International Jewellery London
La passata edizione di International Jewellery London

The cancellation of International Jewelery London turns on the headlights on the last major international jewelery fair left on the program: Vicenzaoro, scheduled for September 5 to 9. A few days ago the organizing company, Italian Exhibition Group, confirmed Vicenzaoro together with a series of security measures to avoid contagions. But, of course, much will also depend on general health conditions, which now seem to have improved.
International Jewellery London
International Jewellery London

Un aspetto del piano #safebusiness by Ieg
Un aspetto del piano #safebusiness by Ieg

Team room di Italian Exhibition Group a VicenzaOro
Team room di Italian Exhibition Group a VicenzaOro

L'area Icon di VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com
L’area Icon di VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com







Oroarezzo postponed to 2021, now an online edition




Yellow gold with white flag. The Oroarezzo fair has been definitively canceled. It was scheduled for April 18-21, but the coronavirus had prompted IEG, the company that organizes the event, to postpone the appointment to June 19-22. Even that date, however, turned out to be optimistic and OroArezzo was moved to 18-21 July. In the middle of summer. Now the decision has come to suspend the fair for 2020. Too complicated. Too many companies that have lost months of work. Too many buyers who have given up for fear of contagion or because the date has proved irreconcilable.

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Padiglione di OroArezzo

Ieg, the Italian Exhibition Group, in concert with the production and association leaders of the sector, has thus decided to postpone and look at 2021, «as the conditions for offering customers the overall and high standard of international buyers that have always been guaranteed to a market, do not yet exist of great value for the country ».
Bacheche a OroArezzo
Bacheche a OroArezzo

Instead of the appointment, Ieg proposes Oroarezzo On Stage, which will host a virtual showcase capable of showing the creations of the client companies to the world markets, companies that will be assisted in the creation of professional photographic services for a catalog enhanced with photos, videos and news of product.
Interno di OroArezzo. Photo: Lorenza Ricci Studio
Interno di OroArezzo. Photo: Lorenza Ricci Studio

The Premiere competition by Beppe Angiolini, honorary president of the Chamber of Fashion Buyers and art director of Oroarezzo will also be digital. The initiative will be dedicated to the jewel symbol of the restart, exploiting the potential of online communication, of the social one. On June 9 Angiolini will launch the title of the 2020 competition during a live Instagram.
OroArezzo 2018
OroArezzo 2018







Anti-contagion measures for OroArezzo and VicenzaOro




Assure operators and visitors, but also the companies that participate, that the virus does not constitute a danger for OroArezzo and VicenzaOro, the two fairs organized by the Italian Exhibition Group. It is the sense of #safebusiness by Ieg.

Corrado Peraboni, Ceo di Ieg
Corrado Peraboni, Ceo di Ieg

We have worked on this plan with the desire to give a complete and reliable answer to customers and the public who, today more than yesterday, ask us to be able to count on fairs and conferences to start again. We did it in line with the health rules against covid-19 and the documents drawn up by Aefi, Federcongressi, Ufi and Emeca which I thank for the constant presence on the topic.
Corrado Peraboni, CEO of Ieg

Un aspetto del piano #safebusiness by Ieg
Un aspetto del piano #safebusiness by Ieg

According to a press release from Ieg, over 50 indications are traced in the project downstream of a rigorous regulatory and organizational protocol. Among others: sanitized shuttles between the airport, hotel and fair, equipped with disinfectants, with mandatory masks on board and programmed number of travelers; agreements with bike sharing companies and scooters, in agreement with hotels and local areas; ticket offices and online payments only, admissions programmed according to the capacity of the pavilions and opening hours of the extended fairs, mask distribution desk (mandatory to wear them and for the disabled, specific aids, such as transparent masks for Ieg staff to facilitate the relationship with the deaf), multiple entrances, safety corridors and distance signs, dematerialized access tickets, public controls with thermoscanner and sanitization path, cloakroom with automatic cycle and disposable covers.
VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com

The entire production chain designed and managed in safety, the flows of visitors monitored with centralized digital detection and the on-site supervision of remote-controlled stewards. Continuous cycle sanitation for all areas, rooms and services, sanitation for the filters of the air conditioning channels. Digitized information material, multimedia production and live streaming to support events, conferences, media.
For catering: temperature control of workers, gloves, masks, disposable gowns, payments with skip-the-line app, lunch box and single portion coffee box, delivery to the stands with a coded process.
DIstanze di sicuerezza con #safebusiness
DIstanze di sicuerezza con #safebusiness

A strict crisis management protocol has been established which defines behavior on the spot in the presence of suspicious cases. IEG employees and event staff will be trained to guarantee and guarantee the safe performance of tasks, the use of PPE, compliance with strict procedures for personal hygiene and disinfection, and spacing.
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Ingresso a VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com

And on the subject of employees, the president of the Italian Exhibition Group, Lorenzo Cagnoni announces that the company has decided on mass serological screening, on a voluntary basis: “We adopt it to protect our collaborators, the employees of the subsidiaries and all our relational system. Operating in different regions, we will do it according to the protocols issued and in the process of being issued and a suitable application has already been submitted to the Emilia Romagna Region “.

All right initiatives. Of course, the climate of attention from red alert is necessary. But perhaps it will not reassure those who fear a contagion.

Nel booth di Roberto Demeglio. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Nel booth di Roberto Demeglio. Copyright: gioiellis.com







Oroarezzo still changes date: it will be at the end of July




Optimism is one of the basic elements for those who do business, but sometimes, as in the case of Oroarezzo, it turns out to be excessive. For this reason, the Italian Exhibition Group has decided to further move Oroarezzo 2020 to July, after on March 5 the fair was postponed to April 18 due to the coronavirus. A too optimistic date, in fact.

OroArezzo 2018
OroArezzo 2018

The new edition of Oroarezzo 2020, if all goes well, will be held from Saturday 18 to Tuesday 21 July. But Ieg says he is listening to the response to the companies in the sector, which have been stopped for weeks due to the health emergency. In short, we need to see how the jewelry manufacturers and, above all, the buyers will react, since there are few international flights at the moment. In fact, “aware that the current situation may not allow international buyers to reach Tuscany, Ieg is planning an edition of Oroarezzo omnichannel to maximize meeting opportunities in any case”.
Sfilata a Oroarezzoi
Sfilata a Oroarezzoi

Furthermore, the Italian Exhibition Group announces that “together with the international bodies and in constant harmony with associations and exhibitors, the countries of origin of the buyers will be carefully selected, evidently in light of the individual and different evolutions of the health status”.
The Business Meeting platform will also be activated, used for over ten years by Ieg with excellent customer satisfaction for the matching exhibitors-buyers. For this global networking tool, important integrations developed specifically for Oroarezzo 2020 are being finalized, which, for example, will allow meetings with buyers by videoconference on each individual stand.

OroArezzo 2017. Photo: Lorenza Ricci Studio
OroArezzo 2017. Photo: Lorenza Ricci Studio







The coronavirus also moves OroArezzo





It was inevitable: the coronavirus also made OroArezzo slip. This is explained by a note from the Italian Exhibition Group, the company that organizes the event. In the light of the current health emergency, the company has deemed it important to postpone the dates of OroArezzo 2020: it was scheduled from18 to 21 April .

Bracciale a OroArezzo 2017
Bracciale a OroArezzo 2017

The decision, continues the press release, came about both from observing the general scenario and from listening to the business needs of the exhibiting companies and therefore with the desire to guarantee customers and operators a new period that includes the full presence of international buyers .
Lorenzo Cagnoni, presidente di Ieg
Lorenzo Cagnoni, presidente di Ieg

The new dates of OroArezzo 2020, therefore, are set from Friday 19 to Monday 22 June and take into account the current seasonal forecasts of the positive evolution of the Covid-19 emergency, the foreign trade fair calendars, the frequency of the holiday periods of the buyers coming from the most strategic markets for Made in Italy.
OroArezzo 2018
OroArezzo 2018

OroArezzo is the event dedicated to Made in Italy goldsmithery that brings together the production excellence of all Italian goldsmith districts, specialized in the processing of metals and precious elements that express the best of the quality of goldsmith production. It represents a strategic platform for the planning of purchases and restocking of wholesalers, chains and traditional shops interested in jewelery: the fair attracts visitors from 60 countries thanks to the collaboration with Maeci and Ice, which guarantee the presence of top international buyers from the areas of outlet of Made in Italy.

Interno di OroArezzo
Interno di OroArezzo







VicenzaOro January closes with a record attendance





VicenzaOro January, the result. After closing the major winter jewelry fair, Ieg (the company that organizes VicenzaOro), has drawn conclusions. Some numbers are now known: 1,500 total exhibitors, but also over 35,000 admissions, the maximum of the last ten years and over 40 events.

VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com

In summary, the fair’s balance sheet indicates that visits from abroad are increasing, while the Italian market also seems to awaken. According to data from the Italian Exhibition Group, foreign incoming accounts for 60% of the total visits overall. Visitors who came from 126 foreign countries. Italy’s data was also positive: + 12%.

Il booth di Nanis a VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Il booth di Nanis a VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com

In detail, the United States leads the ranking of foreign countries most represented by operators with + 30% compared to 2019. Japan (+ 22%) also confirms the growing interest of strategic markets for Made in Italy production, as well as the near the Middle East (+ 6% overall). The Asia and Far East areas show + 4% overall. The macro-region of Africa + 7%. And Russia is also growing again with + 6%.
Tra i booth di VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Tra i booth di VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Visits from Europe, an area that is worth about 50% of the foreign presence in Vicenzaoro, mark + 9% on the increase, which was already double-digit in 2019, with attendance on the increase in particular from German-speaking countries. In short, the numbers seem to drive away any shadow: VicenzaOro not only resists, but insists successfully. And, above all, the increase occurs at a difficult time for other fairs and geopolitical tensions.
VicenzaOro January 2020. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro January 2020. Copyright: gioiellis.com

To help the success of VicenzaOro January we must remember the partnership with Ice (Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian companies), Confindustria Federorafi, Confartigianato, Confimi Goldsmith and silversmith industry and Cna. In particular, Ice has promoted specific activities on the US market resulting from 120 B2B meetings held in Vicenzaoro between very large American retail buyers and Italian companies.
L'area Icon di VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com
L’area Icon di VicenzaOro January. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Upcoming appointments with Ieg’s Jewelery Agenda: OoroArezzo (18-21 April), Vicenzaoro September (5-9 September) and Vod Dubai International Jewelery Show in the autumn.

VicenzaOro January 2020
VicenzaOro January 2020







The second edition of Vo Vintage is already scheduled





A great little success. The first edition of Vo Vintage, a mini fair inside the VicenzaOro fair, met with great public interest. The area dedicated to watchmaking and vintage jewelery was, in fact, a gamble. Organized in a floor open to the public of VicenzaOro (which is instead an event reserved for operators), and in a more limited period (18-20 January) it saw the participation of 30 exhibitors. A success that pushed the organizers of Ieg to already plan the next edition.

Al piano superiore Vo Vintage, sotto VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Al piano superiore Vo Vintage, sotto VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Vo Vintage has attracted collectors of vintage jewelry and watches, a growing market estimated in our country at 1 billion euros. Not only fair, however, but also cultural events, such as Vo Vintage Talk, a dialogue between Michele Mengoli, one of the greatest Italian watchmaking experts and Sandro Fratini, famous Italian collector of vintage watches, with a heritage of over 2000 pieces from the worth approximately 1 billion euros, among which the Rolex, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin and Audemars Piguet brands stand out. The new format could also count on the valuable contributions of Giulio Papi, director of Audemars Piguet Renaud & Papi, Stefano Mazzariol, one of the greatest experts of Rolex Daytona in the world, and Bruno Bergamaschi, with his Watches & Passions forum, Ugo Pancani of the Foundation de la Haute Horlogerie, by the president of Assorologi Mario Peserico.

Lavoro su orologi d'epoca a Vo Vintage. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Lavoro su orologi d’epoca a Vo Vintage. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Gioielli d'epoca a Vo Vintage. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Gioielli d’epoca a Vo Vintage. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro January 2020
VicenzaOro January 2020

Gioielli d'epoca a Vo Vintage. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Gioielli e orologi a Vo Vintage. Copyright: gioiellis.com







T.Gold’s technology at the next VicenzaOro





Together with VicenzaOro (17 to 22 January), hi-tech jewelery returns with T.Gold, the international event dedicated to goldsmith machinery and the most innovative technologies applied to gold and jewelery.
The tech innovations of the goldsmith sector able to dictate future trends debut at T. Gold, thanks to the presence of the main players including the Italian exhibiting companies Legor, Sisma, Ompar and Novagum, the US companies Gemvision and 3D Systems, as well as a significant presence of German companies.

Lavorazione orafa. Foto: LaPresse
Lavorazione orafa. Foto: LaPresse

There is also an appointment with the Jewelery Technology Forum, the only international conference in Europe dedicated to new technologies and the latest trends in the jewelry sector (January 19) co-organized with the Legor Group. The Jewelery Technology Forum is a valuable training opportunity for both new players and veterans of the gold sector, and offers an opportunity for comparison and updating on the trend and trends of the sector. The topics covered will range from crystalline grain to the design of innovation, from 3D models in acrylic photopolymer by precision casting to the macroeconomic scenario. To close the event also an in-depth analysis on the theme of synthetic diamonds.
Visitatori a T.Gold
Visitatori a T.Gold

Again in the field of technology, the Gold Run hackathon is scheduled at VicenzaOro: university students will in fact be able to translate the multidisciplinary skills that underlie the goldsmith-jeweler world, from chemistry to physics, from design to innovative and tangible projects implementation of digital technologies. The 40 best proposals for the creation of a new product or innovative packaging will be submitted to an advisory board made up of important companies in the sector.
Lavorazione di gioielleria
Lavorazione di gioielleria

Finally, for the first time the Italian Exhibition Group, which organizes the Vicenza fair, launches a focus on the world of start-ups and small innovative businesses as an additional vehicle for supply chain innovation with the StartUp and Carats project: it will give visibility to new business models that appear on the goldsmith scene, providing talks and meeting moments, as well as involving international incubators.
VicenzaOro January, visitatori nel booth di Giovanni Ferraris
VicenzaOro January, visitatori nel booth di Giovanni Ferraris. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Gioielli esposti a VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Gioielli esposti a VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com







Italian Exhibition Group acquires OroArezzo and GoldItaly in advance

Ieg, which organizes VicenzaOro, anticipates the planned acquisition of OroArezzo and GoldItaly ♦ ︎

The world of fairs is in turmoil. The formats change and, above all, the market consolidates. And, thanks to the fuel supplied by the recent stock exchange listing, Italian Exhibition Group (the company that organizes VicenzaOro) acquires OroArezzo and GoldItaly.

Team room di Italian Exhibition Group a VicenzaOro
Team room di Italian Exhibition Group a VicenzaOro

On 15 November, in fact, the Arezzo Fiere e Congressi shareholders’ meeting welcomed the Italian Exhibition Group’s proposal to bring forward the period of exercise envisaged for the purchase option of OroArezzo and GoldItaly, historic events of the Tuscan goldsmith district. Ieg will therefore soon acquire the two events it had already managed since 2017. The value of the transaction, a note states, is determined by a fixed component of 3.5 million euros and by a variable component that may reach a maximum value of 1 million.

VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com

OroArezzo takes place every year in April and is the international fair that values ​​the best Made in Italy goldsmith production, a useful event for planning annual purchases and the spring replenishment of wholesalers, chains and top distribution brands. It is an international fair for the demand that has the creativity and the speed of delivery as its strengths.

Gioielli a OroArezzo
Gioielli a OroArezzo

GoldItaly, instead, is held every year in October, favors the meeting between the excellence of Italian gold districts and international buyers, focusing on the exclusive formula of the international business workshop based on a careful segmentation of the exposed product and an accurate profiling of the invited operators.

It’s an operation for customers, for the market. We have been supporting the principle of single direction for many years, very important for producing results in Vicenza and Arezzo. We have indicated this goal from the beginning. We have measured its value in the field in three years of concrete collaboration and today we are fully aware of carrying out a very valid operation from an entrepreneurial point of view. The first with a Tuscan fair. And I hope it will become, of course provided there is a correspondence of common objectives, an operation of more extensive collaboration with a wider regional trade fair system. We are very open to verifying the concrete feasibility. Anyone who knows us knows that we are not afraid of dealing with issues quickly.
Lorenzo Cagnoni, president of Ieg

Lorenzo Cagnoni, presidente di Ieg
Lorenzo Cagnoni, presidente di Ieg

Through the exercise of the Ieg option, it anticipates the expected consolidation in the gold and jewelery sector. OroArezzo and Gold Italy will therefore support Vicenzaoro January, T-Gold, Vicenzaoro September, Vod Dubai International Jewelery Show, also in corporate terms.

Having the leading brands in the sector fairs under the same umbrella means orienting them with linearity and clarity of positioning in favor of companies and buyers. Arezzo insists on the most important district of Europe for production and volumes of quality jewelery. Oroarezzo and Gold Italy are consistent with this historical and territorial background. Just as consistent with the sector is their timing because operators need an appointment with the goldsmiths in spring and autumn in a place that has hosted them for more than forty years, two points of reference for exporting all over the world, strong and clear towards right buyers activated thanks to a precise target positioning.
Marco Carniello Group Brand Director Jewelery & Fashion of Ieg

Marco Carniello
Marco Carniello

In the first six months of 2019, the export of the goldsmith district of Arezzo recorded + 11.4%, contributing to 28.9% of the total national value (+ 14.8% towards the United Arab Emirates, the first outlet market for Arezzo ). With a value of over € 1 billion (€ 1,051.8 million) in the first six months of the year alone, Arezzo is the first district in Italy and Europe to export Gold. In the 12 months of 2018 it had touched 2 billion euros.

Interno di OroArezzo
Interno di OroArezzo

OroArezzo 2018
OroArezzo 2018







Gold / Italy, three days of precious business





Gold / Italy is back in Arezzo, a fair dedicated to gold and jewelery professionals ♦

Gold / Italy returns to Arezzo Fiere Congressi – International Business Forum, an event organized by Italian Exhibition Group (26-28 October). The appointment is dedicated to the jewelery business, with semi-finished products, stones and components, as well as a vast cash & carry area, a tech section dedicated to technology and a focus on packaging. In short, an appointment for those working in jewelery.

Una passata edizione di Gold/Italy
Una passata edizione di Gold/Italy

The program includes about 700 appointments set with the digital business matching platform managed by Ieg: it allows the selection of the most interesting buyers with whom to get in touch and organize their agenda in advance, based on profiling. The approximately 200 gold companies present are a representative selection of the best production of the Italian districts. Buyers are expected from the main export markets: the United States (with a delegation of 35 major wholesalers and distribution chains), the Middle East, South East Asia and Eastern Europe.
Catene d'oro
Catene d’oro

The Gold Days are also back: for the whole weekend, from 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm, in collaboration with Confcommercio Arezzo, the shops and boutiques of the historic center offer special offers to the operators of the fair in possession of the Gold Card.
On Saturday’s inaugural evening, the Renaissance setting of Palazzo della Fraternita dei Laici (Piazza Grande) hosts the welcome cocktail sponsored by Unoaerre (entry by invitation), on Sunday at 6.30pm, the program includes a guided tour of the City of Gold – Experience Tour, by Confguide Confcommercio Arezzo.
Gold/Italy
Gold/Italy

Collana in oro
Collana in oro







Even jewelry and watches for VicenzaOro





Italian Exhibition Group launches Vo Vintage centered on vintage jewelry and watches together with VicenzaOro January. It will be open to the public ♦ ︎

Jewels and vintage watches. Collectible jewelery and watches. Jewels and watches that fill the spaces. Italian Exhibition Group has thought about how to expand the VicenzaOro business, a leading event that, however, suffers from the economic situation and some defections (less than Baselworld, however) among the historic jewelery companies. Unlike VicenzaOro, which is dedicated to sector operators, the area for vintage jewelery and watches will be open to the public. The idea could also be related to the postponement of the Sihh at the end of April, the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie which until last year took place in Geneva almost simultaneously with VicenzaOro. And that by 2020 is planned from 25 to 29 April.

Il logo di Vo Vintage
Il logo di Vo Vintage

The novelty consists of Vo Vintage simultaneously with VicenzaOro Jenuary. The new exhibition area is scheduled from Saturday 18 to Monday 20 January 2020, a shorter time span than VicenzaOro January (17-22 January). The idea is to attract enthusiasts and, of course, companies active in jewelery and vintage watchmaking. For example, there will be Verga Vintage’s master watchmakers who will fix prestigious period clocks live and historic collectors like Sandro Fratini, who boasts a collection of 2 thousand watches for an estimated value of 1 billion euros.

L'area dedicata all'orologeria a VicenzaOro September 2019. Copyright: gioiellis.com
L’area dedicata all’orologeria a VicenzaOro September 2019. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Also present at Vo Vintage will be the main institutions of the sector, such as Assorologi, which for years has been fighting on the themes of the intellectual property against counterfeiting and the trade of fakes, the prestigious Ahci, Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants, which brings together the greatest masters independent watchmakers from all over the world, Orologi & Passioni the main forum of enthusiasts in Italy. Vo Vintage will be organized in the foyer of the first floor of the fair, “in an exclusive and reserved context”.




VicenzaOro September, ingresso. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro September, ingresso. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro January, ingresso. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro January, ingresso. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com
VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Sandro Fratini
Sandro Fratini







The evaluation of VicenzaOro September is …





The VicenzaOro September evaluation is positive, assures the organizing company, Ieg ♦ ︎

VicenzaOro September is over, but the evaluation, probably, will be better continue it also in the coming months. Of course, if you read about the vast majority of specialized newspapers, on almost all of the (low) information sites, not to mention the celebrated blogs, that is luxury hobbies paid by the companies that foolishly invest on it, you will always find the copy and paste of the company announcements. Don’t call it information, please. In this specific case, you will find the press release of Italian Exhibition Group, that luckily relied on the skillful and expert skills of Barabino & Partners, the company that also handles communication for VicenzaOro.

VicenzaOro September 2019
VicenzaOro September 2019

This long introduction serves to start the topic. Why do the great European fairs dedicated to jewelery (but the discussion could expand) experience a not very positive moment? Not to mention disastrous if you consider the former industry leader, Baselworld, struggling with an avalanche of cancellations. From this point of view, VicenzaOro is better than its Swiss rival. Better, but certainly not at the levels of the golden years. It would be enough to count the illustrious absentees, from great Maison like Pasquale Bruni or Chimento (now out of play for years), to small companies like Garavelli, to understand how beyond the official communications, often unnecessarily triumphalistic, VicenzaOro also is victim with a certain disaffection.
Gioielli esposti a VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Gioielli esposti a VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Let’s be clear: Ieg has nothing to do with it. Indeed, it is necessary to say thath society organizes the event as best as possible. The redesigned spaces, unlike what happened at Baselworld, did not give the idea of ​​a downsizing, which also occurred. And the pinwheel of side events have enriched the VicenzaOro September experience as always. The problem, in fact, is not linked to a managerial deficit. But in the end the true judgment is up to the participating companies, which go to a trade fair for business, not for tourism.
Il booth di Yoko London. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Il booth di Yoko London. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Ieg indicates in “about 1300 brands present” at VicenzaOro September, exactly like last year. Brands, not companies: the number of those who bought a space has been missing for some time.
On the other hand, the 10% growth of foreign operators, from 117 countries in the world, is an indisputable positive factor: a figure, explains Ieg, that is “in line with the already exceptionally positive trend of the last two editions and certifies the capacity of make a team” in the promotion and growth of an increasingly export-oriented sector. However, the real number on which it is based the percentage is missing.
Nel booth di Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Nel booth di Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Overall, the growth of foreign operators was driven by the Middle East (+ 23%), North America (+ 22%), Russia and Ukraine (+ 19%) and Asia (+ 18%) with a particular increase in Japan (+ 43%). Europe, which remains the largest number of operators in Vicenzaoro (weighing 59%), remained stable with particularly positive signals from Portugal (+ 51%), Romania (+ 28%) and Austria (+ 9%) . During the five days of the event, over 500 buyers were hosted in Vicenza from all over the world, thanks to the support of the Ministry of Economic Development through the Italian Trade Commission for Foreign Trade. Also with regard to Italian operators, no number was communicated.
Ingresso a VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Ingresso a VicenzaOro. Copyright: gioiellis.com

In VicenzaOro was marked an agreement of IEG with Assocoral, the association of producers of Corals and Cameos, for the enhancement of the Campania district. And an agreement with Afemo, a goldsmith machinery manufacturers’ association, for the promotion of the sector was signed at the opening of VicenzaOro. We should also mention the encore of the T-Evolution area, the technological and innovative soul of the exhibition.
Nel booth di Roberto Demeglio. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Nel booth di Roberto Demeglio. Copyright: gioiellis.com







VicenzaOro September, gold and …





VicenzaOro September is back, with design, technology and luxury. And with some plugs ♦

VicenzaOro is back (7-11 September), with many hopes for companies and jewelery operators, and some questions for Italian Exhibition Group, the company that organizes the event. On the one hand, there is the difficult moment of trade fairs, as in the case of Baselworld, even if VicenzaOro has not suffered the same reduction in exhibitors. On the other hand, the sudden resignation, a few days before the inauguration of VicenzaOro, of the CEO of Ieg, Ugo Ravanelli, at the operational guide of the company born in 2017 from the merger between Riminfiera and Fiera di Vicenza. Ravanelli unexpectedly resigned, with a consequent slip of the stocks on the stock exchange. But, the interested party and the company itself argue, the timing of the two events is not related.

VicenzaOro
VicenzaOro

In any case, VicenzaOro is again not a test easy, also due to the slowdown of the economy in Europe, which hinders expectations and consumption, as well as the increasingly insidious competition of digital, which many companies interpret as an easy communication channel , which can largely replace the presence in a booth. It is difficult to be really so, but on the other hand the costs of being present at a fair (any one), between logistics and employees, insurance policies, security, etc., have become too heavy for many small and large companies. So there are those who choose to restrict their presence to a few, very few events. Or none at all.
L'area Design Room a VicenzaOro September
L’area Design Room a VicenzaOro September

In this new edition of VicenzaOro the innovations concern above all the Design Room, a good idea introduced by the past management of the Fair, an area that brings together some excellent brands, such as Marie Mas, Lydia Courteille and Alessio Boschi (already present in the past), and some international news such as Tomasz Donocik, the Lebanese Yeprem, the Greek Margaritis Lefteris. Sicis, Mattia Cielo and Alessa Jewelry also return, while new entries include Eclats Jewelry, Cedille Paris and Netali Nissim, with its iconic collection of prêt-à-porter talismans. Another important novelty is expected, instead, in the rest of the Icon area: for the first time London jeweler-rocker Stephen Webster will debut in Vicenzaoro.
Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com

In addition to a rich outline of conferences, workshops and meetings, one of VicenzaOro’s strong points compared to its competitors seems to have become T.Evolution, at its second edition: it is the technological and innovative soul of the exhibition. The area is focused on digital technologies and methodologies increasingly at the center of jewelery creation processes, and develops in an even more visible and enhanced way.
Extension of T.Gold, an appointment dedicated to the world with machinery, technology and innovation for the industries of the sector, scheduled each year in the Vicenzaoro January edition, T.Evolution is aimed at both goldsmiths and jewelers / retailers who intend to offer a first service to their customers (analysis tools, 3D printers and the like, etc.). An area of ​​sure interest for jewelery producers.

Alessio Boschi con Venus Heart
Alessio Boschi con Venus Heart

Laura Bicego e una prova gioielli nell'area di Nanis. ©Gioiellis.com
Laura Bicego e una prova gioielli nell’area di Nanis. ©Gioiellis.com

La collezione Duomo presentata a VicenzaOro
La collezione Duomo presentata a VicenzaOro

Uno dei booth di VicenzaOro January
Uno dei booth di VicenzaOro January







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