Japanese exporters & Lots of Pearl Dealers by: Anonymous
Hi there
after the second world war, demand increased in the United States and other places for cultured pearls.
To meet the huge demand the Japanese exporters established close ties with pearl dealers in many regions and included Mastolono, Honora, Albert Asher, and Imperial-Deltah in the U.S., and Schoeffel and Golay Buchel in Europe, the two latter being the two major consumer markets. By the time sales peaked in the mid-1960s, the pearl industry had established deeply entrenched distributing channels (many of which remain in existence today even through a severe decline in sales and production at the end of that decade).
(Muller, 1997) Cultured Pearls: The First Hundred Years. Golay Buchel,Tokoyo).
