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Bain Capital Private Equity and Bow Street have entered into an agreement to buy the online retailer and take it private.

This year, the De Beers-owned diamond brand is bringing the “Ever Us” two stone jewelry into its advertising mix.
In Q3, the bead and jewelry company trimmed 103 retailers in the Americas and then dropped 700 in the month of October.

The jewelry designer and fashion illustrator have designed a delicate opal ring stack together.
The supplier of tools and other products for jewelers is going to launch a refined catalog next year that its owner said is going to “take us back our roots.”

The “Retail Doctor” Bob Phibbs and violinist Kai Kight will be among the featured and keynote speakers at the American Gem Society event in Hollywood next April.

The company said it might have to up movement prices after its request to alter the 2013 agreement that regulates its deliveries of components to other watchmakers was rejected.

Source British will co-locate with LA Fashion Market in March.

Editor-in-Chief Michelle Graff gauges the online reaction and shares her initial impressions of “Real is Rare.”

Pantone has predicted that lapis blue will be a top color for spring; here are 25 versions of the gem-inspired shade as interpreted by fine jewelry’s top designers.

The move is being made to commemorate the gallery’s 40th anniversary next year.

The Olympian and record-setting world champion will speak at the general session breakfast on Friday, April 7.

Tara Hutchinson, founder of Tara Hutch Fine Jewelry and an Iraq veteran, is trying to raise $12,000 on a crowdfunding site to produce a 10-piece line.

The former host of “The Tonight Show” will perform at the event’s opening lunch on April 5.

Jewelers of America’s annual awards gala honors nominees in four categories.

The hotly debated and anticipated not-a-trade-show trade show hosted some fantastic up-and-coming fine jewelry brands.

Here are the top five stories published on NationalJeweler.com for the week of Sept. 18 to 24, according to Google Analytics.

It is one of the 10 shades the color institute predicts to be a hit come spring 2017.

Gahcho Kué is expected to produce approximately 54 million carats of rough diamonds over its 13-year lifetime.
Target wants to reach urban and college town consumers through “flexible-format” locations that are less than 50,000 square feet.

The online jewelry retailer will open its fourth by-appointment-only brick-and-mortar location this fall in the Gold Coast.

Associate Editor Ashley Davis takes an Insta-look at the few design houses that adjusted to the new tone of the Paris Biennale des Antiquaires.
The JCK Las Vegas and Luxury dates will shift due to the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.

The 17 inaugural members of the Forevermark Carat Club visited De Beers’ Victor mine in Canada last month.

















