Tiffany and co Classics Never Grow Old 2

Yomiuri Shimbun: How about your online stores?
　　
Kowalski: We got great success in e-commerce these years. We set up e-commerce in 1999---maybe we are the first luxury brand possess the ability to operate specialization of e-commerce business. Our online achievement has become a very important part in our retail business in America.
　　
The online shop surely aims to offer more choices for American customers. We provide information about diamond quality, diamond standard and diamond purchase as antecessor. As a matter of fact, we started this work with pamphlets we used in stores many years ago. As we said nowadays, most of clients get information from our website.
　
Yomiuri Shimbun: How is Tiffany business in Japan?
　　
Kowalski: Of course, Japan market is a fairly tough market for us in past years. But we believe that it will grow as a market. We are pleased with our diamond business, and our engagement products business has developed sustainably into the most strong business part.
　
　　
We still have much work in Japan. We certainly focus on Japan Market, which is still a important part for our whole company.
　
In Japan, engagement products compete badly in the market, many European brands also participate.
　　
Though I speculate that the market has been steady, engagement products market share has reduced by a large margin in the early time of last century. We believe that our market share in Japan is growing and growing. Of course, the appearance of De Beers, Haryy Winston, BVL and Cartier aggravate the competition. However, we certitude that our solid market positioning strength will make us operate effectively.