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Key Takeaways:
• ASHI® launched its 2026 Holiday Marketing Program, featuring the “”Festive Glam”” campaign, three customized catalogs, and flat-rate direct mail services for independent retailers.
• New product highlights include the Aeris Gold Collection, which uses lightweight construction to address high gold prices, alongside expanded gemstone, fancy diamond, and silver collections.
• The JewelSocial
platform offers a fully managed social media and email service, providing retailers with professional content creation and scheduling to increase customer engagement.
• ASHI®’s B2B platform now includes an AI recommendation engine and real-time analytics to help jewelers make data-driven inventory and stocking decisions.
The holidays are when independent jewelers make their year, and ASHI® wants to make sure its partners are prepared. The New York-based diamond jewelry maker has spent more than 40 years building tools that help independent stores compete effectively against the mass chains and online players — and its 2026 holiday offering reflects that mission, aimed at helping the roughly 1,000 retailers it works with across North America close out the year strong.
This Fall, that comes as a three-part launch: the comprehensive 2026 Holiday Marketing Program, a plug-and-play campaign in a box; the elegant new Aeris Gold Collection, leading a fresh slate of designs; and JewelSocial, a revolutionary, fully managed social-and-email blast platform that offers a hands-free, comprehensive marketing solution for retailers. Together, they give independent retailers a meaningful edge heading into the most important selling season of the year.
Festive Glam: A Holiday Campaign in a Box
The headliner this season is ASHI®’s 2026 Holiday Marketing Program, themed Festive Glam — a blend of holiday warmth and modern polish, dressed in deep reds, forest greens, and warm gold. The program gathers more than 300 exclusive pieces into three companion catalogs — the Gift Book, the Wish Book, and the Gift Guide — each designed to look just as polished in print as it does on screen.
The best part is that retailers barely have to lift a finger to get it up and running. Stores receive flyers at no cost based on their opening asset order and partnership tier, and ASHI® offers a flat-rate EDDM (Every Door Direct Mail) service that combines postage, processing, and fulfillment into a single fixed fee covering up to 5 ZIP codes. Each flyer can be customized with a store’s own logo, backstory, and photography, with room on the back cover for custom coupons to pull shoppers through the door.
“We didn’t want to hand jewelers a catalog and wish them luck — we wanted to hand them the whole campaign, ready to go,” says Mr. Pandya, Partner at ASHI®.
There’s more stacked into the package: a Holiday VIP Memo that mirrors a store’s asset order with matching memo goods, a 5-Day Preview Program that puts best-sellers on a short-term invoice memo to close over-the-counter sales, and a library of downloadable social media assets consisting of high-resolution photography, short-form reels, and more. To make it even easier for retailers, a mobile-ready digital e-catalog drops straight onto a store’s website, Facebook, or Instagram.
“Our job is to take the busywork off your plate so you can spend the season actually selling,” says Mr. Pandya.
A New Crop of Collections
The holiday catalogs double as a launch pad for ASHI®’s newest design work — and this year’s lineup tracks closely with where the market is heading.
With gold prices sitting at record highs, the new Aeris Gold collection utilizes advanced, lightweight gold construction to deliver a big, sculptural scale at a far more accessible price point, timed perfectly for current market conditions.
From there, color and shape do the talking. Evoque leans into glamorous, color-forward looks, and ASHI®’s colored Gemstone Jewelry rides one of 2026’s strongest currents as buyers increasingly layer vibrant emeralds, sapphires, rubies, and other richly saturated gemstones alongside the timeless brilliance of diamonds, embracing color while celebrating diamond elegance. Mixed Fancies taps the fast-growing appetite for fancy- and mixed-shape diamond looks; Luna Bezels answers the bezel-setting moment with clean, modern framing; and Bead Bijoux delivers the grown-up, fine-jewelry take on beaded styles that have jumped from summer novelty to year-round staple.
Diamond Essentials, Bold Gold, Pirouette Designs, and Mosaic Diamonds round out a range that covers nearly every gift budget walking through the door. Bold Silver brings the same substantial, statement-forward sensibility of Bold Gold to sterling, giving retailers a strong opening price point without sacrificing presence. At the same time, a new Gold Vermeil offering — finished in 24k gold plating — extends the collection’s reach into an accessible luxury tier.
“We stay close to the customers and design straight to what they’re reaching for,” Mr. Pandya says. “These are high-perceived-value pieces that move — the kind that win the sale and bring the customer back.”
JewelSocial: Posting Handled, Selling Left to you
Plenty of independents know social media matters, but often can’t find the hours for it. That’s the gap ASHI® is filling with JewelSocial, its fully managed social-and-email service. The Post side puts ASHI®’s creative team in charge of producing, scheduling, and publishing content to a store’s Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, all while preserving retailers’ full ownership of their accounts with no password sharing.
The calendar consists of a diverse, steadily refreshed mix of studio-grade imagery and scroll-stopping short-form reels, all styled around what’s trending right now. The payoff is showing up fast — retailers already on the platform have seen their social engagement climb by over 125% within just a few months!
The E-Blast side carries that same polish into email, sending jewelry-focused campaigns timed to bridal season, the holidays, and other moments that move product. This is complemented by educational blogs that keep customers informed on jewelry trends, care tips, and buying guides — turning followers into confident, loyal shoppers.
“A store shouldn’t need a marketing department to look great online — that’s what we’re here for,” says Mr. Pandya.
JewelSocial Post is free for 3 months, then costs $195 per year, allowing retailers to try it at no cost. JewelSocial E-Blast will launch on August 1, 2026, and will start at $395 per year. Those who sign up for the 2026 Holiday Marketing Program, though, get both Post & E-Blast FREE for a full six months, covering the entire holiday season at no charge.
Smarter Buying, Sharper Selling
The same ASHI B2B platform that takes orders also helps retailers decide what to order. The ASHI® Analytics Team and the automated ARO (Auto Reorder) program form the foundation of a smarter, more inventory-efficient buying process. The Analytics Team pulls live performance data from leading POS systems like BIG and EDGE and translates it into real-time reports on bestsellers, fastest movers, and most-reordered styles — surfaced in a dashboard tailored to each account, so stocking decisions are grounded in evidence rather than instinct.
Layered on top is an AI recommendation engine that analyzes a store’s order history and seasonal patterns to predict upcoming inventory demands, while automatically filtering out anything already in stock, on memo, or recently returned. The result is a buying process with significantly less guesswork.
For stores that want their own websites to keep pace, ASHI® has teamed with Avalon Solution® to offer turnkey, jewelry-specific e-commerce—conversion-ready Shopify storefronts that are mobile-optimized and fully integrated with live product data. Through Avalon’s cloud-based JewelExchange platform, a retailer’s site can showcase inventory, imagery, and real-time pricing from more than 75 leading industry brands.
See ASHI® this Summer
Jewelers can get a first look at the holiday program and meet with the ASHI® team at two summer buying shows: the IJO Conference in Louisville, Kentucky (July 25–28) and the RJO Summer Buying Show in Lexington, Kentucky (July 31–August 3).
Across product, marketing, and the sales floor, ASHI® ‘s aim stays the same — to help independent jewelers become the brand their community thinks of first for bridal and fashion jewelry.
ASHI® is a proud member of leading industry buying groups and organizations, including AGS, CBG, IJO, JA, Leading, and RJO. For more information on ASHI®, visit www.ashidiamonds.com.
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