James Avery Artisan Jewelry is a private company that designs, manufactures, and sells jewelry, primarily Christian themed. The founder, James Avery, started the business in 1954 in Kerrville, Texas out of his mother-in-law's two-car garage with about $250 in capital. In 1954, James Avery built a workbench and fashioned a sign to hang on the garage; it read James Avery Craftsman and featured a candelabra logo. The business has grown to about 50 of its own stores in Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Alabama, and Texas. The company has five manufacturing plants in Hondo, Fredericksburg, Kerrville, and two in Comfort, Texas. The James Avery jewelry collection carries 1,100 designs and 14,000 pieces made in sterling silver, 14-, 18-karat yellow and white gold, and gemstones. James Avery Artisan Jewelry™; doing business as James Avery, James Avery Jewelry and James Avery Craftsman Inc.; is a privately-held company designing, manufacturing and selling jewelry in sterling silver, gold and bronze. James Avery Jewelers™ is widely recognized for their traditional and faith-inspired collections, contemporary designs and extensive offering of keepsake charms, charm bracelets and charm holder necklaces. James Avery Artisan Jewelry has a diverse selection of charms, bracelets, earrings, necklaces, pendants and rings crafted in sterling silver, 14K gold, gemstones and leather goods for women and men of all ages. Over the past 64 years, the company that started in 1954 as a one-man endeavor in a Kerrville, TX garage, has grown into a team of more than 2,500 Associates with 83 James Avery stores in five states. James Avery Artisan Jewelry is vertically integrated - meaning the company designs, manufactures and markets its own products. Product designs originate in its corporate design studio and are produced by skilled artisans in the company’s four Craftsman Centers located throughout the Texas Hill Country
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