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Postado em 31/08/2016 11:05 por mryangfei1  |
Throughout the '20s and ‘30s, charms were made of pandora jewelry store platinum, diamonds, and precious stones, and had themes of the Jazz Age, or were shaped like trains, airplanes, and locomotives, says Markowitz. America saw another charm craze in the 1950s after word got out that First Lady Mamie Eisenhower was an adamant collector. Photos of stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Crawford wearing charm bracelets helped too. There were small companies in Rhode Island that were known for their charm bracelets, Markowitz says, but none came close to the commercial success of Pandora. Pandora's bracelets came to the US in 2003, first at local gift shops and then at fine jewelry stores, prompting the company to set up an American headquarters in Maryland.
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle soon reported that the bracelets were becoming bestsellers because of pandora jewelry collection their upscale look and pricing. Sure, Pandora was and is largely affordable back then silver charms were priced at $15 and sterling silver foundational bracelets $21 but it has also always had expensive items like $400 charms in its arsenal. Some analysts even refer to it as the middle class Tiffany. They're very high end and they're gorgeous, Penny Decker, an owner of a gift shop in upstate New York, told the Chronicle. We're all sporting them. It's got that David Yurman look to it. You can wear it dressed up or down. Jewelry used to be segmented, where stores either sold fine jewelry or affordable silver pieces, but jewelers were desperate for anything and so a lot of them started selling Pandora. Pandora's wholesale strategy was initially one of
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Frankly, it was their strong footprint that made them be able to catch so many consumers, explains Hana Ben Shabat, a retail partner at A. T. Kearney. They were hard to miss. By 2004, Pandora was available in 700 jewelry stores in the US, and that number doubled in 2005. The brand expanded to other markets like Canada, Australia, and the UK, picking up momentum everywhere it went. In 2007, it started rolling out brand owned retail stores, no longer relying solely on wholesale partners. Today, the US is Pandora's largest and fastest growing market. While the charm bracelets were a blockbuster pretty much the moment they hit American stores, Bates of pandora charm clips JCK notes that the recession is what really helped bolster sales. baby123 / http://www.panjewelrys.com/ |
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