Lanka nets over $ 2.3 million at Hong Kong exhibition

Sri Lanka earned over $ 2.3 million at the recently held Hong Kong Jewellery and Watch Fair and was successful in obtaining continuous monthly orders for calibrated cut blue sapphires, worth $ 50,000, according to Chairman, National Gem and Jewellery Authority (NGJA), Hasitha Tillekeratne. This was the 17th occasion that Sri Lanka participated in this widely-attended international exhibition in Hong Kong.

Six selected entrepreneurs from the gem and jewellery trade represented the country at the Lanka pavilion organised by the NGJA. Medium and large scale Sri Lankan gem and jewellery businessmen who attended the event obtained orders from the USA, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Russia and Thailand.

The Hong Kong exhibition is the largest of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region. Hence participation in such events gives a major boost to the expansion of Sri Lanka's gem and jewellery industry, the NGJA Chairman said. He has already made arrangements for the NGJA's participation in the HK exhibition for the eighteenth time in 2009.

Export Manager Rohan Pitigala represented the NGJA.