History of Hawaii Jewelers Association

The Hawaii jewelers Association (HJA) is a state affiliate of The Jewelers of America (JA).

The Hawaii Jewelers Association serves as the retail jewelry industry's primary trade and professional association in Hawaii. Organized by a small group of interested retail jewelers in 1948, informal meetings were held to discuss the benifits which result from the organization of a local jewelers trade group.
Originally formed as what was called The Retail Jewelers Council, mutual problems that were discuss were; The Jewelry Auction Problem, The Ship's Service Store policy and The problem of the Retail Wholesaler. From these topics, their conlusions were that they all agreed that there is much that can be accomplished by getting together to work out the jewelers own trade problems.
Since most of the leading jewelers were already members of the Retail Board, it was agreed to organize the Honolulu Jewelers Council as a trade council within the Retail Board.
By taking this action, which paralleled the recent formation of the Honolulu furniture Dealers Council, the usual financial, membership and staff problems were eliminated and the group gained formal representation on the Retail Board Executive Committee. On July 26 1971, a petition for a charter of incorporation was signed, in the State of Hawaii under the provision of Sections 416-19 and 416-20, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for a charter of incorporation, for themselves and their associates, as a non-profit corporation under the name of HAWAII JEWELERS ASSOCIATION.
"The location of the principle office of the corporation shall be in Honolulu, State of Hawaii, and the specific address of its initial office shall be c/o Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Dillingham Transportation Building, Honolulu, State of Hawaii."
The corporations propositions: "To futher the interest of persons engaged in the jewelry industry by improving the prestige of said industry; To promote activities relating to the betterment of the jewelry industry; To advance, through education and the dissemination of information, a keener interest in the jewelry industry to the end that person engaged therin may better serve themselves and the public at large; To encourage among persons in the jewelry industry, practice in their relationshop with each other, their employees and associates, and teh public at large to the end that all interests may be fairly served; and To foster good will and fellowship among persons in the jewlery industry."