Buyers From Hong Kong and China to Take Part in Israel Event
July 15, 13
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Headed by Conroy Cheng Chi-Cheng of Chow Tai Fook, China's leading jewelry brand, other members of the delegation are representatives from leading diamond trading and jewelry firms such as Chow Sang Sang Jewellers, Dehres, Brilliant Trading, Kunming Trading, Lee Hen, Wu Leung Lee and Aharoni & Son.
Israel Diamond Exchange President Yair Sahar said. "The participation of such a prominent delegation of diamond buyers offers yet more proof of the fruitful relationship that the Israeli diamond industry and trade has developed with the markets in Asia and in particular with Hong Kong and greater China."
Conroy Cheng Chi-Cheng is a director of Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited, which owns the Chow Tai Fook jewelry brand, with jewelry sold in more than 1,800 retail stores and franchise outlets throughout mainland China.
Chi Cheng will be the guest of honor in the opening ceremony of the summer edition of the US & International Diamond Week.
More than 350 Israeli diamond manufacturers and traders will offer more than $1 billion worth of polished goods for sale.
Other buyers' groups taking part in the August event include a delegation from the Diamond Dealers Club of New York, headed by the co-initiator of the Diamond Week, DDC president Reuven Kaufman, a delegation from India organized with the support of Vipul Shah, chairman of the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), Anoop Mehta, president of the Bharat Diamond Bourse of Mumbai, and Vasant Mehta, a former GJEPC president and vice president of the International Diamond Manufacturers Association, a group of buyers from Russia, accompanied by Moscow Diamond Bourse president Alex Popov, and many individual buyers from all over the world.