600 Exhibitors and More Than 18,000 Buyers are Expected to Attend 35th Istanbul Jewellery Show in October

- Amazing designs perfected by the 5,000 year-old historical legacy of Anatolia!

ISTANBUL, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Istanbul is opening her doors to the world with an international jewellery fair, the Istanbul jewellery Show on 4-7 October 2012 at CNR EXPO Centre.

The show places a critical role on the development of Turkish jewellery sector and has a very important mission about promoting new and different products to the world jewellery professional every year.

This year's main subject is Anatolian secret treasures. Anatolian jewellery has special design products which have a technical artisanship shaped by thousands of years. These designs will meet with the international buyers for the first time at the show in October.

Local and International Visitor Promotion in 8 different countries and 15 cities with over 3,000 jewellery buyers

The UBM Rotaforte team has visited more than 8 countries and met with important buyers and associations from target countries such as USA, Dubai, Hong Kong, Italy, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Russia and India. The team also promoted the October Show in 7 different cities in Turkey and met with more than 600 local jewelers and associations from Adana, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Kahramanmaras, Bursa and Antalya.

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About UBM Rotaforte (www.ubmrotaforte.com)

UBM Rotaforte, a joint-venture company formed by UBM Asia and Rotaforte International Fairs Inc., owns the Istanbul jewellery Show, an international exhibition for jewellery, gems, watches and related equipments. Now in its 26th year, the exhibition is held twice a year, in March and in October. Overall, the shows attract almost 60,000 visitors and 1,700 exhibitors, occupying net show floor space of more than 35,500 square metres. Products covered include gold, diamond and silver jewellery, precious and semi-precious stones, pearls, gold mountings, watches and clocks, machinery, tools and equipment, display units and security devices. The business is supported by the Turkish Jewellery Association JTR, a national trade body which represents more than 1,100 jewellery companies, including the major manufacturers. UBM Rotaforte also publishes a supporting magazine RFJ (in Turkish and English) and organises Turkish jewellery pavilions at a number of third-party events in Dubai, Italy, and India, as well as selling exhibition space into jewellery events in Russia and Ukraine.

About UBM Asia (www.ubmasia.com)

Owned by UBM plc listed on the London Stock Exchange, UBM Asia operates in 18 market sectors with headquarters in Hong Kong and subsidiary companies across Asia. We have over 240 products including trade fairs, conferences, trade publications, B2B/B2C portals and virtual event services. As Asia's leading exhibition organiser and the biggest commercial organiser in China, India and Malaysia, we stage the leading events of their kind across the region. Our 200 events, 24 publications and 16 vertical portals serve over 1,000,000 quality exhibitors, visitors, conference delegates, advertisers and subscribers from all over the world with high value face-to-face business-matching events, quality and instant market news and industry trends, and round-the-clock online trading networks and sourcing platforms. We have 1,000 staff in 21 major cities across Asia, stretching from Japan to Turkey.

For press enquiries, please contact:
Selda Arik, Marketing Communications Executive, UBM Rotaforte
Tel:  +90-212-519-0719
Fax: +90-212-513-3038
Email: selda.arik@ubm.com