Solitaire International

About Solitaire International

Solitaire International is a business-to-business magazine for the gem and jewellery industry published from Mumbai, Maharashtra, by the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC). Serving the trade — manufacturers, exporters, retailers, designers and allied businesses — it covers the industry's news, trends, markets, design and policy: the B2B journal of Indian jewellery. Published in English, it addresses both the domestic trade and the international buyers who source from India. The GJEPC's official website is https://gjepc.org, through which the magazine's content and the council's services reach the industry.

The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council

Solitaire International is published by the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), the apex industry body for India's gem and jewellery trade — sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The council promotes India's gem and jewellery exports through trade shows (notably the India International Jewellery Show, IIJS), buyer-seller meets, market development and industry advocacy. The magazine is the council's editorial voice: the publication that communicates with the trade the council serves — and with the world buyers the council courts.

The council's Mumbai headquarters places the magazine at the industry's centre: the trade's news reported from where the trade happens.

Publication Profile

Solitaire International is published in English from Mumbai — India's jewellery capital and the GJEPC's home. The B2B format serves trade readers: industry professionals who need market intelligence, trend analysis and business news rather than consumer features. The English language addresses the international trade: buyers in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia who source Indian jewellery, alongside India's English-speaking trade professionals.

The magazine's production — quality printing, fine jewellery photography — matches its subject: the beauty of the products it covers, presented to the trade that makes and sells them.

The magazine's covers — featuring exceptional jewellery pieces — are the trade's visual highlights: the artistry of Indian jewellery, presented as the industry presents itself to the world.

The B2B Mission

The magazine's business-to-business mission distinguishes it from consumer jewellery publications: its readers are the trade — the manufacturers who make, the exporters who ship, the retailers who sell, the designers who create. Content serves business decisions: which designs are trending, which markets are buying, what policies affect the trade, where the opportunities lie. For industry professionals, the magazine is intelligence: the information advantage in a competitive global business.

Export guidance — documentation, compliance, market entry — serves the exporters the council exists to promote: the practical knowledge that turns manufacturers into exporters.

Industry News and Markets

Coverage of industry news — company developments, market movements, diamond and gold price trends, demand patterns in key export markets — keeps the trade informed: the business environment, reported for business readers. Export market analysis — the US, Europe, Gulf, Asian markets for Indian jewellery — guides exporters' strategies: where to sell, what's selling, how markets are evolving. This market intelligence is the magazine's core value: knowledge the trade can act on.

Gold and diamond price movements — the raw materials of the trade — get continuous attention: the cost environment every jeweller must navigate, reported with the authority the council commands.

Design and Trends

Jewellery design — new collections, design trends, designer profiles, craftsmanship features — gets the visual attention it deserves: the magazine as the trade's lookbook. Indian jewellery's design heritage — the kundan, polki, temple, jadau traditions — alongside contemporary innovation features regularly: the aesthetic range that makes Indian jewellery globally distinctive. For manufacturers and retailers, the trend coverage is product intelligence: what to make, what to stock.

Craftsmanship features — the karigars' skills, the techniques behind the beauty — honour the artisans: the magazine recognising that jewellery's value begins at the workbench.

Trade Shows and Events

The GJEPC's trade shows — IIJS Premiere, IIJS Signature, and international exhibitions — are the industry's great gatherings, and the magazine covers them extensively: previews, show reports, exhibitor highlights, buyer feedback. For the trade, these shows are the year's commercial peaks; the magazine's coverage extends their value: the business done at shows, documented and analysed. The magazine also serves the shows: promoting participation, previewing attractions.

Buyer-seller meets — the council's matchmaking between Indian suppliers and world buyers — get magazine coverage: the commerce the council facilitates, documented in its journal.

Policy and Advocacy

Policy coverage — export incentives, import duties on gold and diamonds, GST, hallmarking, regulatory changes — addresses the government-shaped environment in which the trade operates: the rules that determine profitability. The GJEPC's advocacy positions, communicated through the magazine, keep the trade aligned: the industry's collective voice, in print. For businesses navigating regulation, this coverage is essential: the policy landscape, explained by the body that shapes it.

Hallmarking, certification and quality standards — the trust infrastructure of jewellery — feature regularly: the magazine promoting the integrity that sustains the trade's reputation.

Readership

Solitaire International's readers are the gem and jewellery trade: manufacturers, exporters, wholesalers, retailers, designers, and allied businesses — in India and in the buying markets abroad. The readership is the industry's decision-makers: the professionals whose choices move markets. For advertisers — machinery makers, technology providers, service companies, fellow trade bodies — this concentrated industry audience is the ideal channel.

International buyers — the importers and retailers who source Indian jewellery — read the magazine as their window into the Indian trade: the publication that introduces them to suppliers, trends and opportunities.

Allied businesses — logistics, finance, technology providers serving the jewellery trade — read for market understanding: the magazine as the industry's common reference.

India's Gem and Jewellery Industry

The magazine serves one of India's most significant industries: the world's largest diamond-cutting centre (Surat), a vast gold jewellery manufacturing base, and export earnings in the tens of billions of dollars. The industry employs millions — including countless artisans — and carries India's craft heritage into global markets. The magazine's journalism documents this industry's scale, skill and evolution: the trade press of a national economic champion.

Artisan welfare — the karigars' livelihoods, skills and futures — gets editorial attention: the magazine recognising that the industry's foundation is its craftspeople.

Digital Presence

The magazine extends through the GJEPC's digital platforms — gjepc.org and the council's communications — with industry news, digital editions and online content serving the trade between issues. For a global industry, digital immediacy matters: market news, show updates and policy alerts reaching the trade in real time. The print magazine remains the curated record: the industry's developments, analysed and presented.

Digital showrooms and online B2B platforms extend the magazine's trade function: the jewellery industry's digital transformation, covered and facilitated by the council's media.

Role and Significance

Solitaire International's significance is that of the Indian gem and jewellery trade's B2B journal: the GJEPC's magazine serving manufacturers, exporters, retailers and designers — news, markets, design, policy — from Mumbai to the world. In an industry where India leads globally, a dedicated trade magazine from the apex export body is both a business tool and a statement: Indian jewellery's story, told by its own council. Issue after issue, Solitaire keeps the trade informed, connected and competitive.

Its issues — trade intelligence, design inspiration, market insight — keep India's jewellery industry informed and competitive: the council's magazine, serving the trade it champions.