(PRESS RELEASE) NEW YORK — The Plumb Club Pavilion at JCK Las Vegas has brought together a group of companies offering the newest ideas and products geared toward helping jewelry retailers with daily business and growing sales. Aside from The Plumb Club’s usual offering of retail benefits, such as a complete business center and café, the collective, aptly called the Retail Innovation Center, will be housed at PC-240 within the pavilion. The group will focus on a variety of essential categories for the jewelry retailer.
Exhibits will include:
- Leslie McGwire & Associates: Turn-key retail interior design assistance for both new and remodeled spaces will be offered by award-winning commercial interior designer Leslie McGwire, who has won 25 national design awards, including the prestigious Salon Today and INSTORE Jewelry Store awards. McGwire will be present to speak to retailers on how to best support a positive image and reputation of their brands and products.
- Picup Media: GemLightbox, a cutting-edge jewelry photography tool that works with just a smartphone will be showcased by Picup Media. Additionally, an AI-powered jewelry image retouching tool, and latest innovation, the Augmented Reality jewelry virtual try-on software, which allows customers to view and try on jewelry pieces anytime and anywhere will be demonstrated. Picup Media is a company that helps retailers tell stories and connect with their customers by creating studio-quality jewelry images and videos.
- Glass-Media: The coolest cutting-edge digital display elements for jewelry stores including: 3D holograms, projection-based illumination, display-based pixel mapping, wireless charging, digital point of sale displays, and a variety of other bespoke visual solutions will be presented by Glass-Media, a group of visual storytellers, engineers and retail strategists who are passionate about bringing together movement, technology and design for store owners.
- Jewelers Resource Center: An immersive and discoverable 3D environment that provides a myriad of jewelry educational and reference materials in a variety of learning methods, such as auditory, written and visual formats will be demonstrated. News headlines, reference materials (charts/tables, articles, helpful links) and jewelry-related service-providers can also be accessed and sourced. Guided virtual tours of the space will be offered. The Jewelers Resource Center, a groundbreaking and useful exploration tool and reference guide is a legacy gift from The Plumb Club. It is being provided free to the entire jewelry industry for the purpose of shaping the future of our industry via education supplied by a variety of reputable and expert sources.
Lawrence Hess, executive director of The Plumb Club states, “As the leading jewelry association, two of our core missions are to ‘Educate’ the industry and ‘Innovate’ within that space. Today, we are all doing business in the most fast-paced environment the industry has ever seen. Therefore, we felt it was important to pull together the best and the newest innovative companies to help fulfill that mission.”
Additionally, The Plumb Club will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the JCK Las Vegas Show on Saturday, June 11th from 5:30pm – 7pm with a wine and cheese party, as well as a cake-cutting ceremony and toast to 30 years of the Show.