James avery locations
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James Avery, who founded the jewelry chain that bears his name which now numbers 80 stores, died April 30 at age 96.
Avery was born in 1921. He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, commanding a B-26 bomber and running 44 missions over Germany. After the war, he attended the University of Illinois and received a BFA in industrial design, eventually becoming a college instructor.
While at the University of Colorado, he started teaching jewelry-making with his students. Around this time, he divorced his first wife, and after years as an agnostic, embraced the Christian faith.
“When you get in deep trouble, the thing that is very important is to have someone to put their arms around you and comfort you,” Avery told the San Antonio Express-Newsin 2005. “I found that in the church.”
According to an interview he did with the University of North Texas Libraries, he sold his first piece, a cross, to an Episcopal bookstore in New York City. It was then he decided to devote himself to the jewelry business.
Avery said: “I had a friend that was a very fine painter in New Yo
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James Avery Artisan Jewelry
Company that designs, manufactures, and sells jewelry
James Avery Artisan Jewelry is a Texas-based, family-owned company that specializes in designing hand-crafted rings, bracelets, necklaces, charms, earrings, and other jewelry. Its founder, James Avery, first started crafting jewelry in Kerrville, Texas in 1954 out of his (then) mother-in-law's garage. Over time, the company expanded and became well-known for its distinctive designs and attention to detail. The business has grown to more than 120 of its own stores across Texas, Georgia, Louisiana and Oklahoma. The company has studios, workshops and manufacturing facilities in Kerrville, Fredericksburg, Cedar Park, Comfort, Hondo and Corpus Christi.[2] There are more than 3,000 regular James Avery employees across all its locations.
History
James Avery officially started his business by selling jewelry from a wooden box at local summer camps in 1954. He became known as the “Jeweler in the Hills.”
In 1957, James Avery created 39 new designs for the line, printed his first
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James Avery Craftsman, Inc.
Harper Road
Kerrville, Texas 78029
U.S.A.
Telephone: (830) 895-1122
Fax: (830) 895-6601
Web site: http://www.jamesavery.com
Private Company
Incorporated: 1965
Employees: 1,300
Sales: $80 million (2005)
NAIC: 339911 Jewelry (Except Costume) Manufacturing
James Avery Craftsman, Inc., is a private company based in Kerrville, Texas, that designs, manufactures, and sells jewelry, primarily Christian in theme. All told, the company offers about 1,100 designs and 14,000 different pieces of jewelry, sold through 40 company-owned stores located in Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Colorado; 200 independent retailers; mail-order catalogs; and an Internet site. The mostly family owned company is still headed by its founder, Homer James Avery, well into his 80s, assisted by sons Paul and Chris Avery.
Founder Turns to Jewelry Design After World War II
James Avery was born in 1920 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of a teacher and an insurance agent, who grew up attending a Presbyterian church. By the time he joined the service during World War II and beca
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