Hi, sorry about the user name but i know its never taken in forums.
Anyway, I have a friend who is a jeweller in perth, Western Australia. She has a lot of designs that sell well all around australia. Unfortunately, her production costs are high. All her work is hand crafted and therefore her market is reduced to galleries and shops that move high quality products.
We are travelling through bali, thailand, laos, vietnam, cambodia and back through bali for 3 months. We leave in just 3 weeks. Part of the trip is going to be trying to find jewellers to make some of the components of her work. The plan is to then put the final pieces together back in australia and reduce the overall production cost. Other local jewellers have had success doing this. Unfortunately, it is not the sort of thing you can ask them since they are effectively the competition.
So I was hoping someone from this forum could point us in the right direction. In any of the countries mentioned above but especially bali since "business trips" (surfing included ) would be easiest to bali. Names of individual companies or just general regions to look into would be great. Hints on what to be careful of, or how to import the product back into australia would also be greatly appreciated.
thanks for any responses.
Simon
ps this site looks great and is well set out. Much better than a lot of other forums ive been surfing...
Anyway, I have a friend who is a jeweller in perth, Western Australia. She has a lot of designs that sell well all around australia. Unfortunately, her production costs are high. All her work is hand crafted and therefore her market is reduced to galleries and shops that move high quality products.
We are travelling through bali, thailand, laos, vietnam, cambodia and back through bali for 3 months. We leave in just 3 weeks. Part of the trip is going to be trying to find jewellers to make some of the components of her work. The plan is to then put the final pieces together back in australia and reduce the overall production cost. Other local jewellers have had success doing this. Unfortunately, it is not the sort of thing you can ask them since they are effectively the competition.
So I was hoping someone from this forum could point us in the right direction. In any of the countries mentioned above but especially bali since "business trips" (surfing included ) would be easiest to bali. Names of individual companies or just general regions to look into would be great. Hints on what to be careful of, or how to import the product back into australia would also be greatly appreciated.
thanks for any responses.
Simon
ps this site looks great and is well set out. Much better than a lot of other forums ive been surfing...