The program of events for the business community at Oroarezzo, Italian Exhibition Group’s international gold and silver manufacturing exhibition, scheduled to take place from May 10 to 13 in the halls of Arezzo Fiere e Congressi , grows year after year in authority and quality. Topics to be discussed will include: evolving markets between Europe and the Far East; analyses of tariff barriers and raw material prices to guide companies, the state of the art for the fashion accessory supply chain, and opportunities for culture and beauty in the historic city center with an opera adorned with Italian jewelry.

In Arezzo, a gold district with over 5.3 billion in foreign sales, IEG is creating opportunities to better understand how the international market is evolving. The opening day will start with the institutional round table on “Jewelry in the world: dynamics of an excellence sector of Made in Italy’”(an event sponsored by BPER Banca), followed by an event organized by Club degli Orafi “Markets, Sustainability, Tariff Barrier and Supply Chains: Analysis and Outlook for the Sector in 2025”, at which Intesa Sanpaolo’s Research Department economists, Daniela Corsini and Sara Giusti, will be joined by Daniele Gualdani, sole director of LEM Industries SpA and Maria Cristina Squarcialupi, president of Club degli Orafi Italia and UnoAerre Industries SpA, as well as vice-president of Federorafi Confindustria with responsibility for sustainability. On Saturday, the Italian Trade Agency (ITA), in collaboration with Yoodata, will be organizing a talk on “Opportunities for Made in Italy in European markets”, the last leg in the production districts that has been presenting a research study commissioned by Federorafi on the French, German, Italian, UK and Spanish markets. On Monday 12^th , ITA will also be presenting Vietnamese market opportunities with Fabio De Cillis, director of ITA’s Office in Ho Chi Minh City, designer Anna Vo, Thy Nguyen from the Vietnamese company Jemmia Diamond and Nguyen Hoang Duy, founder of Tierra Diamond, another leading Vietnamese brand. Again on Monday 12^th May, the Arezzo Goldsmiths‘ Council will invite Enrico Quintavalle, national head of Confartigianato’s Study Office, to address “Jewelry companies and made in Italy, the challenges of the world’s new (dis)order”.

• Alongside foreign markets, focus on the domestic market is still crucial. In Arezzo, Federpreziosi Confcommercio will be presenting its Observatory on Retail. “Listening to the customer, reading the numbers: the evolution of jewelry purchasing” will see the participation of Pierluigi Ascani, president of Format Research, the demoscopic institute that runs the Observatory, Stefano Andreis, president of Federpreziosi, Vincenzo Aucella, deputy vice-president, Elena Spanò, president of Federpreziosi Florence Arezzo, and Simone Haddad , vice-president of Federpreziosi Rome.
• Fashion is abandoning “quiet luxury” and is now proposing large volumes for accessories. A choice that the current price of gold seems to penalize although both new materials and the most advanced goldsmithing technology can provide answers. This is the theme of the second edition of Precious Fashion, an event that marks the state of the art for a supply chain that is complementary to jewelry. “Maximalism and competitiveness: opportunities and challenges for the fashion accessory supply chain”, in collaboration with Leather & Luxury magazine and AFEMO , the Italian Association of Jewelry Machinery Manufacturers and Exporters.
• On Monday evening, Oroarezzo’s international community will go to the opera at Petrarca Theatre to see Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi, a comic opera in one act”, directed by Manu Lalli, who also designed the costumes,. A production requested by IEG, the Municipality of Arezzo, the Fondazione Guido d’Arezzo and Confindustria Federorafi , whose member companies will contribute to making the event unique through a selection of jewelry for the stage costumes made by Arezzo companies Unoaerre, Quadrifoglio, Migliorini Gioielli, Chianucci Maurizio, Chini, Femar, Giordini, Gold Art, Graziella Braccialini and Maria De Toni from Vicenza. The Orchestra della Toscana will be conducted by Fabrizio Maria Carminati. Baritone Mario Cassi will play the title role while the cast will be completed by students from “Le Stanze dell’Opera”. Venti Lucenti (with over 30 years’ experience in training, disseminating and promoting opera among the young generations) will be responsible for the staging under the curatorship of Marco Burberi. Set design by Daniele Leone , lighting by Giuseppe Filipponio.