JADE

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.ljintl.com
Employees: 3,000
Employee growth: (16.7%)

LJ International makes gold, platinum, and sterling silver jewelry set with diamonds and colorful precious and semi-precious stones at its plant in Shenzhen, China. The company markets its jewelry primarily under the Lorenzo brand name to retailers in Europe and North America. LJ International offers finished jewelry (about 50,000 styles of earrings, necklaces, pendants, rings, watches, and bracelets) and loose gemstones (more than four million carats annually). It sells jewelry through fine jewelers, discount chains, department stores, television shopping channels, and in about 100 of its own ENZO retail stores in China, Hong Kong, and Macau.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $136.3M
One year growth: (10.4%)
Net income: $2.5M
Income growth: 69.9%

Officers:
Chairman, President, and CEO: Yu Chuan Yih
CFO and Director: Hon Tak Ringo Ng
SVP Sales and Marketing: Danie Tangchai

Competitors:
Beauty Gems Holdings Co., Ltd.
Chow Sang Sang
Pranda Jewelry

For other uses, see JADE (disambiguation).

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A captured JADE machine on display in the National Cryptologic Museum.

JADE was the codename given by US codebreakers to a Japanese World War II cipher machine. The Imperial Japanese Navy used the machine for communications from late 1942 until 1944. JADE was similar to another cipher machine, CORAL, with the main difference that JADE was used to encipher messages in katakana using an alphabet of 50 symbols.

See also

• Purple
• RED

External links

• TENTATIVE LIST OF ENIGMA AND OTHER MACHINE USAGES 30 March 1945 — JADE is covered

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