Look who is in the January issue of Jewelers Circular Keystone Magazine!
(Reblogged from the January 2012 issue of JCK magazine.)

As Croghan’s Jewel Box enters our 100th year and 6th generation of being a family owned business, not much has changed since the store was first established in the early 1900s. When the store first opened it was the enclosed porch of a 1794 Charleston home where bench jeweler/ hand-engraver William Joseph Croghan worked. In the 1930s, William’s daughter, Mary, turned Croghan’s into a retail store. And six decades later, her daughter Mariana moved the business off the porch and into the house. “Very little changed in 80 years,” says Mariana, who now runs Croghan’s with her sister, Rhett. “We didn’t have a cash register until 1999.” Now, her daughter Kathleen is poised to join Croghan’s 100-year tradition. “You have to get young blood in the store to revitalize things,” says Mariana.
Mariana: Part of reaching this milestone is our family tradition of giving back. My mother taught us the lesson from a very early age. She was always very involved in local museums, the symphony, and held board positions on many charities. As a business owner, when you have the same goals as the community, people trust you.
Rhett: Our grandmother and grandfather used to close the store at lunch for “2 o’clock dinner,” a Charleston tradition. They’d take whoever was in the store—customers, employees, or friends—and bring them to their home for a meal that my grandmother cooked. This was the start of b
uilding relationships with people, generation after generation. But as much as we enjoy having 1,600 friends on Facebook, we can’t serve them all dinner.
Kathleen: We welcome customers into our family by taking an interest in their lives. We also buy jewelry with the customers’ tastes in mind, be it estate or antique jewelry from special sales or new collections from top designers sourced at major trade shows.
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