Our History / Company Profile...
The Henderson Collection of Charlotte, North Carolina, has served as a renowned member of the jewelry industry since 1990, offering upscale and emerging retailers an exclusive collection of beautiful pieces crafted with diamonds and fine gold. Created with the end-user's versatile lifestyle in mind, the fashionable designs merge old-world craftsmanship with new-world technology to offer impeccably constructed necklaces, bracelets and rings as well as hand-wrought and electro-form earrings.

Lecil Henderson, the company's founder, provides extraordinary customer service, offering a level of scholarship and confidence to his clients that is unmatched. The Henderson Collection is built on a principal of contrast, as it is designed to be contemporary yet classic, luxurious yet suitable for everyday wear. Each piece carries a lifetime guarantee and is functional, practical, durable and stylish. Most importantly, because the jewelry is crafted by hand, clients are able to customize every aspect to fit their needs, including the length, width, shape and color of their selections. Choose ever popular hand-Florentine finish, satin or matte finish or the option of a high polish finish.

A longer necklace featuring pink diamonds might dazzle one client, while another may desire a choker-length piece in black gold with white stones.

The Collection
Henderson's "Venetian Collection" has achieved international success and marks a monumental triumph in Henderson's history. The pieces showcase brilliant diamonds and gemstones set in satin, polished or matte gold and adorned with 18K yellow, white and rose gold. Each is masterfully-designed in a style boasting clean lines and easy symmetry, creating an impressive and sophisticated look. The BLACK GOLD pieces in the collection are extraordinarily popular, especially stunning and unique to the industry.
Adding to the Venetian Collection's classic Euro-flex bracelets and perfectly balanced hinged hoop earrings is the new light and feminine "Dew Drop" line featuring hand-cut and polished natural pink, green and brown tourmalines, citrine, amethyst, peridot and an array of colored freshwater pearls on 18K gold chains. Simply beautiful!

The "Verona Collection" is a more dramatic line showcasing bold link bracelets in striking color combinations, including patterns of pink with yellow gold and black with white gold. Many of these bracelets feature detailed hand etchings on both the inner and outer links and a hidden class built into the link itself. The Henderson Collection has recently unveiled the first samples of a new process that allows natural maple wood to be heat-cured into Verona bracelets, thus creating a spectacular mirror polished wood look intermingled with 18K gold.

The "Tuscany Collection" is the next venture on the horizon for the Henderson Collection. This highly versatile, light yet durable line will appeal to women of all ages across the economic spectrum. It features an array of mixed metals, textures and shapes including; long necklaces combining ovals and circles in 18K white, rose and black gold on hand-crafted chains of yellow gold. Accompanying the necklaces are triangular shaped dangle earrings and hammered disks in varying sizes that flaunt enamel reminiscent of an African safari.

Extraordinary Customer Care and Partnership Program
The Henderson Collection is unique to other manufacturers in a number of ways. Not only are the luxurious choices highly sellable due to their optimization of form and function, but the company also offers a cutting edge PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM. Client partners are able to order the most appropriate items for their store's demographic audience while receiving thorough training on how to brand and market the products that they have selected. The company offers dollar-for-stock balancing, complete in-case displays, custom-made Duratrans, print and broadcast cooperative advertising, a full range of direct marketing materials, digital images of the collection for client's brochures and catalogs.

In-store designer events
Lecil Henderson personally visits client's stores for exclusive designer events rather than rely on regional sales representatives. In this way, he is able to better nurture his clients and in turn, cater to their best customers! In order to minimize inventory aging and ease client concerns, the Henderson Collection arranges for the automatic replacement of sold items and allows for exchanges if a particular style is not the best match for the store. As a result of this supportive and holistic approach, the rate of success for the collection and the store is greatly increased.

Lecil Henderson founded his company with the primary objective of offering distinctive, artistic and unique jewelry via unsurpassed customer service. During high-school and college, Lecil studied under his father, an account executive for a successful jewelry design firm. Following graduation, he joined the company full-time and successfully created an Italian import division. Soon he ventured to Europe to study under master artisans and expand his experience. During his time abroad, he worked diligently, immersing himself in every aspect of the industry while developing a business plan to start his own firm. Today, the Henderson Collection has grown to not only craft extraordinary and memorable jewelry lines for the modern woman but to also construct custom creations for their clients.

The Henderson Collection is affiliated with several professional organizations, including the Jeweler's Security Alliance, the 24K Club/Southern California, Jewelers Board and the California, New York, North Carolina and Oklahoma Jeweler's Associations. Lecil Henderson was also an original co-founder and board member of Luxury, an original board member of the West Coast Jewelry Show and the Centurion Jewelry Show and a long time member and participant in the JA New York Show and JCK. In addition, the Henderson Collection regularly contributes to the Jeweler's Children Association and was one of the first American Gem Society registered suppliers.

Lecil Henderson enjoys playing a part in his community. He has served as president of Leadership Charlotte, the Historic Properties Commission and Charlotte Trolley, Inc. and serves as a volunteer at the Room at the INN and on the Wake Forest Alumni Association. A proud father of three children, he has coached soccer and little league teams to victory and has encouraged his children to enjoy traveling and the outdoors as much as he enjoys golf, snow skiing, tennis camping and hiking.

For more information please call us at 800-605-3035 (or click here) to e-mail us. We look forward to establishing a relationship with you.