Mark S. Light

Kay Jewelers, Inc. operates a chain of jewelry stores. The firm's products include eyeglasses, musical jewelry boxes and electric razors. It sells gold, silvers, diamonds and gemstones jewelry, watches, collectibles and gifts. Kay Jewelers was founded by Sol and Edmund Kaufman in 1916 and is located in Fairlawn, OH.

Beauty Gems Holdings Co., Ltd. retails gems and jewellery products. It sells gold, diamond, platinum, silver, watches, collectibles and gifts and gemstone jewelry in the shopping centers and malls nationwide. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Akron, OH.

Signet is the largest specialty retail jeweler by sales in the US and UK, and also has stores in the Republic of Ireland and Channel Islands. Signet is incorporated in Bermuda and its address and telephone number are shown on the cover of this document. Its corporate website is www.signetjewelers.com, from where documents that the Company is obliged to file or furnish with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") may be viewed or downloaded free of charge. On September 11, 2008, Signet Group plc became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Signet Jewelers Limited, a new company incorporated in Bermuda under the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda, following the completion of a scheme of arrangement approved by the High Court of Justice in England and Wales under the UK Companies Act 2006. Shareholders of Signet Group plc became shareholders of Signet Jewelers Limited, owning 100% of that company. Signet Jewelers Limited is governed by the laws of Bermuda. Effective January 31, 2010, Signet became a foreign issuer subject to the rules and regulations of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") applicable to domestic US issuers. Prior to this date, Signet was a foreign private issuer and filed with the SEC its annual report on Form 20-F. Signet's US division operated 1,318 stores in all 50 states at January 28, 2012. Its stores trade nationally in malls and off-mall locations as Kay Jewelers ("Kay"), and regionally under a number of well-established mall-based brands. Destination superstores trade nationwide as Jared The Galleria Of Jewelry ("Jared"). Based on publicly available data, Signet's US division was the largest specialty jeweler in the US in calendar 2011 with sales approximately twice those of the next biggest such retailer. The UK division's stores trade as "H.Samuel," "Ernest Jones," and "Leslie Davis," and are situated in prime 'High Street' locations (main shopping thoroughfares with high pedestrian traffic) or major shopping malls. The UK division operated 535 stores at January 28, 2012, including 14 stores in the Republic of Ireland and three in the Channel Islands. Based on publicly filed accounts, Signet's UK division was the largest specialty retailer of fine jewelry in the UK with sales in calendar 2010 almost twice those of the next biggest such retailer