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Here’s What’s Next for Bixler’s – America’s Oldest Jeweler – After Acquisition

Published

9 years ago

July 1, 2016

INSTORE Staff

New owners intend to make Bixler’s its own wholesale brand.

Following the acquisition of the Pennsylvania-based Bixler’s jewelry store, Lehigh Valley Live explores what the new owners have in store for the business that’s considered to be America’s oldest jeweler. The article says that Perry Sporn, a jeweler who runs dozens of stores and has a Vermont manufacturing division, closed on the transaction in April. He’s planning to install a museum “that will display the many artifacts Bixler’s family has collected from more than two centuries of being in business,” and eventually sell custom jewelry under Bixler’s name as a wholesale brand.

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