DOWNEAST TRADING CO. INC.
We were founded in 1975 by Rick Winslow in Ogunquit, Maine in order to avoid full-time employment.
At the time surfing was his first love. The company evolved from a hobby to a job to an obsession.
Originally trading in turquoise, coral, heishe beads, silver, and stone, mostly out of the trunk of a Volkswagen bug, Downeast slowly transformed from a wholesaler of semi-precious stones, pearls, and findings, to an importer of Italian jewelry.
We now operate a small and totally anonymous office in the bucolic dairy country of Vermont, within sight of the Green Mountains.
We don’t have a store, we don’t have a showroom, and all business is transacted either by phone and shipping, or directly at the major jewelry shows during the year where we make an appearance.
We supply retail stores, manufacturers, jewelry designers, distributors, and craftspeople in fifty states and many foreign countries.
We do not sell retail or directly to consumers. A tax resale number is required to purchase merchandise from Downeast.
Our sales are 100% wholesale to persons operating within the jewelry trade.
We are direct importers of jewelry chains from Italy and Germany.
Our 18kt Obi line is imported from Japan. Every chain that we sell is made in our factories overseas- we will never sell an item that was made for another importer..
PO Box 349 Middlebury, Vermont 05753 USA
Get in touch with us by email at
downeast@sover.net
By Telephone:
802.388.6946 800.626.5700 802.388.7242 (fax)
https://www.downeasttrading.com
We supply retail stores, #manufacturers, #jewelry #designers, #distributors, and #craftspeople in fifty states and many foreign countries.
We do not sell retail or directly to consumers.
We supply retail stores, #manufacturers, #jewelry #designers, #distributors, and #craftspeople in fifty states and many foreign countries.
We do not sell retail or directly to consumers.
