Leading Bahrain jewellers are making final preparations for Jewellery Arabia 2010.

A total of 56 local companies are set to participate in the exhibition, which runs at the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Centre (BIECC) from October 26 to October 30.

It is being held under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa.

Organisers are hoping that over 600 companies from more than 30 countries will use the exhibition as a platform to raise the profile of Bahrain's jewellery industry.

The show is an opportunity to renew trade relationships with foreign exhibitors and sell to visitors from the GCC and beyond, said Arabian Exhibition Management (AEM) sales and marketing director Fawzi Al Shehabi.

Participants

'International jewellery houses participate through Bahraini agents, and smaller jewellers are presented with a wider buying audience from throughout the GCC and receive exposure they would not get otherwise.'

Some of the Bahrain participants include, Bahrain Jewellery Centre, Asia Jewellers, Al Mahmood Pearls, Al Zain Jewellery, AJM Kooheji Group, M M Sharif Hatam & Sons, Yousuf A Wahab Al Hawaj & Sons Co, Al Sarraj Jewellers, Devji Aurum, Jewel House, Sharif Group and Kooheji Jewellery.

Jewellery Arabia will feature a pavilion of smaller Bahraini companies, co-ordinated by Tamkeen. The creation of the group forms part of Tamkeen's Enterprise Development Support Programme.

Meanwhile, organisers have begun work on two semi-permanent structures to extend existing facilities at the BIECC.

The 18,000-sqm exhibition has sold out to capacity, they said. The exhibition will open from October 26 to October 29, from 4pm to 10pm.

On October 30, it will open from 10am to 1pm and 4pm to 10pm.-TradeArabia News Service