MANUFACTURERS 2023

MANUFACTURERS

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HISTORY Better Silver’s story began in 1977 when an entrepreneurial young man called Romano Bettinardi began making silver chains in his garage in a village close to Vicenza, the heart of Italy’s jewelry-making industry.

Four decades on and Better Silver has become a world-class industrial powerhouse specializing in classic, innovative, and customized silver chains, finished jewelry designed around chains, and other precious components.

The second-generation Bettinardi family—Paolo (CEO), Andrea (COO) and Anna (Marketing Director)—is committed to upholding Romano’s values of family, ingenuity, and courage as they strive for continuous improvement.

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COMMITMENT Better Silver serves major international players in the jewelry and fashion industries. Our world-class industrial capabilities allow us to produce significant volumes of the highest quality silver chains and jewelry designed around chains.

We invest heavily in innovative technologies that secure greater product variety and quality, and in cutting-edge IT that enables rich and rapid information flow.

A desire to secure high performance product and service advantages for customers underpins everything we do.

The operational excellence of Better Silver is testified by our multiple supplier awards:

BEST LEAD TIME REDUCTION AWARD 2019

BEST SUPPLIER AWARD 2016

BEST QUALITY SUPPLIER AWARD 2019

BEST SUSTAINABILITY SUPPLIER AWARD 2021

BEST QUALITY SUPPLIER AWARD 2021

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STRENGTHS Better Silver is fully vertically integrated with state-of-the-art factories in Italy and Romania, ensuring our supply chain is discreet, fast, and reliable.

Our skilled workers apply craftmanship and ingenuity to machine technology to shape precious metals into the world-class Made in Italy chains for which we are renowned.

No two customers are the same, and neither are the solutions we offer. We use the full suite of our production technologies, supported by the Vicenza jewelry district we are part of, to craft the unique solutions you seek.

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VALUE TO MANUFACTURERS Better Silver has more than 45 years of manufacturing experience. Whether you manufacture jewelry for brands or organized retailers, we are your best choice for a reliable supply of silver chains. From chains by the meter, to more sophisticated pairings of chains and components, we have the technologies and capacity to meet your specifications and expectations.

Chain machines, CNC lathes for precisely made components, casting, laser cutting, and soldering are combined to craft the solutions you seek. Whatever your specific needs, we can help you bring a solution to life.

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PRODUCTS Across a history that spans four and half millennia, chain jewelry has played many symbolic, decorative and functional roles.

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At Better Silver, we combine inspiration from this heritage with evolving stylistic research to shape beautiful silver chains (plain or with stones) and finished jewelry designed around chains.

We invest heavily in innovation and bring the best of Made in Italy to our designs and manufacturing.

Applying our numerous production technologies, we develop solutions that brilliantly meet your aesthetic and functional requirements.

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SUSTAINABILITY Honouring the importance of sustainability and social solidarity, Better Silver acts responsibly and respectfully towards the environment, our employees, our local community, and all stakeholders who play a part in our story.

In 2017, Better Silver became the first company in the silver jewelry industry to obtain SA8000 certification.

In 2020, our first Sustainability Report led to the creation of a Social Responsibility Management System in line with SA8000 and RJCCOP standards.

A member of the RJC, Better Silver uses 100% renewable energy, creates zero greenhouse emissions, and uses 100% recycled silver.

SOLIDITY Better Silver enjoys healthy financials due to good governance and sound management. We reinvest all profits back into the company, particularly in production and information technologies, to bolster our competitiveness.

Every year we voluntarily request Ernst & Young to audit our financial statements and CERVED to issue a public credit rating to reassure customers and financial institutions as to our solidity.

Better Silver is well capitalized, owns the silver metal used in production, and keeps stock of more than 80% of all chains sold, enabling us to respond quickly to your orders.

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TEAM OF EXPERTS

Better Silver S.p.A. Via dell’Artigianato, 25 · 36050 Bressanvido (VI) · Italy · Tel. +39 0444 467711 · info@bettersilver.it Better Silver USA Corp.

2005 Division Road · East Greenwich, RI 02818 · United States of America · +1 (401) 339-2715 · peter.englehart@bettersilver.com

www.bettersilver.it