Hello, My name is Finbarr Doyle, Managing Director of The Bill Skinner Studio in the UK. The Bill Skinner Studios produces a range of costume/fashion jewellery comprising of necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and cuff links. We also design larger gift products, for instance candle stick holders. We are looking to develop new contacts with manufactures that can deliver the following: - Production in a base metal for costume and silver jewellery - To be able to work with leather and fabrics within fashion/costume jewellery. - To be able to competently work with Swarovski crystals and faux pearls. - Experienced in enamelling, vitreous, epoxy resin, plique-a-jour, cloisonn. - Ability to work with larger metal based gift product (candle-stick s and other household gifts) that would be polished to an extremely high quality. - Sampling service to be made available for 2-25 pieces. - Capacity to box and barcode products. - To be able to work to tight deadlines and lead times, no more than 8 weeks after sample approval for new products and 6 weeks for repeats. - Facility to make mail orders as well as high volumes - Min 120/Max 2000 - Transparent and high QA standards. - To offer trading terms of 30 days and competitive pricing. - Dedicated Account manager to deliver progress reports and able to liaise proficiently on all matters including quality, materials and assembly and efficiency issues *****