How do you see the overall market today?
The Japanese Akoya saltwater keshi pearl market is not only stable but growing. This is due primarily to freshwater pearls flooding the market. What is happening is that designers are looking for something unique and different. Our Japanese Akoya keshi are a rare product and no other vendors can deal with supply, drilling, stringing, designing, and then putting the strands on clasps. Therefore, the Japanese Akoya keshi, market is strong and will continue to be strong for the foreseeable future. With less production each year, we forsee continuing demand for this type of pearl.
October 19th, 2006 at 6:08 am I totally agree, we were at a show in Tucson last year and there were tons of freshwater keshi but I only saw a few vendors with the Japanese Akoya keshi.
July 9th, 2009 at 1:17 am Man, that’s great…Thanks for providing such a good info………