The Damiani Group, a leading international jeweller, is backing the 63rd World Congress of Femmes Chefs d’Entreprises Mondiales (FCEM), a major global event for businesswomen being held in Bahrain.

The jewellery group, which is listed at the Milan Stock Exchange, operates in Italy and globally through boutiques. Also its exquisite jewellery pieces are being distributed in 600 exclusive stores across the globe.

Silvia Damiani, the vice president of the group, is in the kingdom for the conference being held under the theme ‘Our Bridges to the World.'

The event, which concludes tomorrow (March 26), has brought together more than 500 leading businesswomen and entrepreneurs from across the globe to the three-day event in Bahrain.

Damiani will be addressing the international delegates and the dignitaries from the Gulf and Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region at the gala dinner today (March 25), where she will speak on the success story of the Italian jewellery group which was set up in 1924.

In its 90 years of history, Damiani has become an international company renowned all over the world for its quality and craftmanship, said the company's top official.

Damiani has been able to successfully export in the world the elegance of Italian style but at the same time creatively reinterpret it as per the traditions and culture of the different countries, she added.

“As an international group, we are active in building bridges and for nearly 100 years we have been using the art of jewellery design to establish and promote cross border ties, co-operation and trade as well as cultural exchange,” said Damiani.

"Women have been a critical part of our success both in terms of the role they play as managers in our company and as our loyal customers globally," she said.

Damiani has a long tradition of supporting great causes including issues related to women, clean water and health initiatives around the world.

In 2010, the Italian jeweller received an award for valorising female workers, in the sphere of the project ‘Companies investing in women’.

The initiative was started with the sponsorship of  the Minister of Employment and Social Policies and analysed the data relating to staff, separated by gender, in companies with more than 100 employees.

A group of ‘virtuous’ companies was thus found which had adopted human resources management formulae including a significant number of women on the staff and in senior management.

Damiani was assigned the recognition “for the ability of knowing how to valorise the presence of women through real solutions and good transferable practices.”

"We are a group dedicated to supporting women in global entrepreneurship; building business and cultural bridges through rich design heritage," stated Damiani. 

On the FCEM sponsorship, She said: “We are delighted to be supporting this all-important event and using it as an opportunity to further strengthen and develop our ties with leading women entrepreneurs and business leaders from around the world - especially those in the Middle East which continues to constitute one of our most important regions and where we see ongoing and significant potential for partnership and growth."- TradeArabia News Service