As the trade shows kick off in Las Vegas, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Graff reminds jewelers what they’re really selling when they sell jewelry.
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The online jeweler has opened another New York location for customers to try on merchandise before ordering through the website, and announced a search for a new chief digital merchandising offer.
Scheduled to take place in late June, the viewing of exceptional and special diamonds will mark a first for De Beers’ auction arm in the United States.
Just having a regular retail space is not going to cut it today, writes Jim Alperin. Jewelers need to figure out how to turn their store into an experience.
Though the sale set a new record for per-carat prices for lower quality stones, it was only 76 percent sold by weight and 79 percent sold by value.
American Gemological Laboratories will perform on-site testing of colored stones at JCK Las Vegas as well as the Las Vegas Antique Jewelry & Watch Show.

Vegas is going to be a whirlwind, but Associate Editor Ashley Davis won’t leave Sin City without checking out this set of new and established jewelry designers.

Jewelry brands Luis Morais and Aaron Basha are teaming up for an ongoing partnership that will be shown to buyers and press for the first time in Las Vegas.

The group director of strategy and business for Anglo American will move into the position July 1 following Philippe Mellier’s decision to step down.

Former Tacori designer Aja Raden on how the desire for jewelry has shaped the world and the diamond necklace she’d love to wear to Starbucks.

While the larger, finer pieces of peridot are becoming more expensive, the price for this yellow-green gemstone remains relatively stable overall, helping spur demand.

Rio Grande revealed the winners of its annual jewelry design contest during a gala dinner at its recent Santa Fe Symposium.

The jewelry designer’s unabashedly cute aesthetic is lending itself to an equally cute partner: the animated cast of the Finding Nemo sequel.

Jewelers, see how your gold jewelry sales and margins stack up against other retailers.

Sold Wednesday at Christie’s, the 14.62-carat fancy vivid blue diamond surpassed the Blue Moon to become the most expensive jewel ever sold at auction.
Duilio “Tony” Rosales, a bench jeweler at The Jewel Box in Juneau, was shot in the back of the head during a hunting trip, allegedly by a former Arizona state representative.

Peter Smith answers some of the most common questions he received from jewelers following the publication of his widely read two-part column, “What Will Become of Retail Jewelry Stores?”

Jewelers should not be afraid to reach out to existing customers at least five times a year, Jim Ackerman writes.

The fancy vivid green diamond will lead the auction house’s Magnificent Jewels sale on May 31 in Hong Kong.

Works of the fourth-generation animal figure carver, including a gem silica chrysocolla and malachite carving of seahorses, will lead the auction house’s Los Angeles sale this month.

The jeweler left the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition this week but said the admittance of Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba to the group was not the reason.

What inspired these popular Art Deco-era pins, and what forced them out of fashion? A look at the story behind a style that’s similar to the brooch.
The global network of independent retail jewelers will have a presence in Las Vegas as part of both the CBG Las Vegas and JCK Las Vegas 2016 trade shows.

Endless Jewelry has announced the winners of the recent contest that awarded consumers, brand ambassadors and dealers a chance to see Jennifer Lopez’s Las Vegas show.
Located in Surat, the new facility dedicated to the De Beers diamond brand will do both grading and inscription.




















