S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Businesswoman Concei\u00e7\u00e3o P. Rodrigues exports costume jewellery with the face of Brazil to Germany, China, the United States, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and Romania. In the Arab world, present are buyers from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. From the city of Soledade, 230 kilometres away from state capital Porto Alegre, she manages Gold Stone, a maker of accessories like rings, necklaces, bracelets, pendants and key chains made from precious and semiprecious gems.<\/p>\n
\u201cInternational sales represent 90% of our revenues,\u201d said Concei\u00e7\u00e3o. According to the entrepreneur, the contact with foreign clients is made two ways: through agents who travel to prospect the market and offer products or directly, with those interested in travelling to Soledade after the items. The city is a costume jewellery production hub.<\/p>\n
Among the Arabs, for example, deals are closed when buyers travel to the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. \u201cOur client in Saudi Arabia always comes here,\u201d said Concei\u00e7\u00e3o. \u201cHe even speaks very good Portuguese,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Among the most sold items are stone pendants. \u201cWe may even engrave text onto the pieces,\u201d said the businesswoman. \u201cWe have already done so in Arabic, in fact.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gold Stone uses raw materials like agate, amethyst, citrine, crystal, opal and quartz. In their majority, the stones are purchased in Brazil, except for the amethysts that come from Uruguay. Which are her favourite ones? \u201cAmethysts, beautiful in that lilac tone.\u201d <\/p>\n
in the domestic market, sales are mainly to states like Bahia, Minas Gerais, Paran\u00e1, Rio de Janeiro and S\u00e3o Paulo. According to Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, the Brazilians \u201ccould have greater appreciation for stones\u201d, but the trade of this kind of item gained strength last year, with, the exhibition of soap opera Tititi<\/i>, by Globo TV<\/i>. \u201cA businessman from the region sent some jewellery to the producers of the soap opera,\u201d she explained. \u201cAfter the programme, everybody here started selling more,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Gold Stone has been in operation for seven years and, as informed by Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, grew and won the world due to the artistic method of production of the articles and to the care in production. \u201cWe make delicate and rustic costume jewellery,\u201d guaranteed the entrepreneur of the amethysts.<\/p>\n
Contact<\/p>\n
Gold Stone<\/b>
Telephone: (+55 54) 3381-1894
E-mail: goldstone.biju@gmail.com<\/p>\n
*Translated by Mark Ament<\/b>_<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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