Jewellery entrepreneur scoops top accolade
JEWELLERY designer and founder of AG, Andrew Geoghegan, has been announced as the winner of the British Jewellers Association (BJA) Designer of the Year award 2013.
The announcement came following an awards ceremony in Birmingham this week.
West Yorkshire-based Geoghegan, an ex-student of Leeds Grammar, started AG in a shed at the bottom of his parents’ garden. Since then, he has developed his AG brand – a collection of bridal jewellery, cocktail rings, pendants and earrings.
He said: “2013 has been another remarkable year for AG. I continue to design and create with the same intense passion and boundless energy with which I started.
“My aim has always been to create mesmerising designs at the very height of opulence and luxury, essentially putting my all into every piece and creating something which helps people to express their love.
“It’s hugely exciting times for AG at the moment as we look to begin exporting next year – making our international debut in Munich. We’ve also moved to a beautiful converted farm building in the middle of the Yorkshire countryside – I have a feeling inspiration will be at an all-time high once I’m surrounded by even more of our glorious landscape.”
The business said it has consistently grown for the past three years and when it makes steps to enter the European market, specifically Germany, it will be going in with “all guns blazing”.
Over the next three to five years, Geoghegan said he sees the business developing, with a “vast” increase in turnover and staff – creating an internationally recognised British luxury brand.
The business is working with a growth accelerator mentor, UKTI and MAS. It said these organisations have been, and will be, key in the recent and future developments.
