Business sustainability in the jewellery industry, where a preponderance of the legacy brands companies are family-owned and maintained, is reliant on the ability to successfully transfer skills, knowledge and brand sensibility from one generation to the next, protecting the company’s ethos and tradition, while ensuring it remains relevant to the next generation of jewellery consumers. The seminar will investigate how this in being done with a group of next generation members of the Italian jewellery industry.

The seminar, which took place on January 19, 2025, at the VICENZAORO Jewellery Show in Vicenza, Italy,  was moderated by Edward Johnson, Corporate Responsibility Director, Gemfields Group. It featured Alessia Crivelli, General Manager, Crivelli Srl; Alice Vanni, CSR Director, Italpreziosi S.p.A.; Azzura Cesari, Project Manager and Product Development, Cesari & Renaldi Gems; and Gaetano Cavalieri, President of CIBJO.

The event was hosted by VicenzaOro’s organizer, the Italian Exhibition Group (IEG), and is part of a joint CSR and sustainability educational programme for the jewellery industry, presented by CIBJO and IEG, which has been recognized by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.