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Initial results show that a lot of shopping took place online and that average spending per person was down slightly.

L.J. West Diamonds is partnering with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County on an exhibition of natural colored diamonds called “Diamonds: Rare Brilliance.”

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A dozen retailers shared with National Jeweler their weekend results, thoughts on the election and predictions for the holiday season ahead.

Jewelry from the woman who married the department store heir will be featured in the Magnificent Jewels sale scheduled for Dec. 7 in New York.

A report on the retail jeweler’s third quarter results was the most-read story on National Jeweler last week.
Last year, JCK’s Industry Fund awarded more than $293,000 to groups that better the jewelry industry.
The organization will hold a series of education sessions during the upcoming American Gem Trade Association GemFair.
This is up from 135.8 million people last year, with Black Friday expected to be the busiest day of them all.

The company is maintaining its outlook for the full fiscal year, with net sales predicted to fall between $550 million and $560 million.

Prices of fancy colored pink and blue diamonds are up, but partially offset by continued price declines in lower-cost, commercial yellow diamonds.
The American Gem Society has expanded its website’s “Find a Jeweler” search tool to highlight jewelers with professional credentials.
The decrease, less than initially expected for the period, is attributed to declining sales in under-performing stores and weakness in energy-dependent regions.

With such a wide variation--from moss agate to white agate and everything in between--agate is poised to be a trend contender for 2017.

Today’s greatest living jeweler straddles the line between fine art and high jewelry.

It’s the first branded shop-in-shop for the Chinese jewelry mega-retailer.

The Accredited Gemologists Association has chosen the project manager of cut research at the GIA’s Carlsbad laboratory as the recipient of the 2017 Antonio C. Bonanno Award for Excellence in Gemology.

See National Jeweler’s top five most-read stories last week.

One Ohio jeweler is offering a luxury package for the holidays that includes a 16-carat, $1 million Forevermark diamond and a 2017 Mercedes Benz S550 Cabriolet.

In addition to creating the collection for Robbins Brothers, the industry executive also wrote a book about her 50-year marriage that will be gifted with purchase.

The Kimberley Process chair touted the passage of two “historic” agreements but others are saying that’s actually not what happened at the meeting.

Peter Smith discusses the possibilities that come with asking customers to talk about the person for whom they are buying.

The e-commerce giant has filed suit over a product called the Forearm Forklift and another over exercise equipment.

The GIA acquired some “exceptional” mineral specimens and the SSEF unveiled a top-of-the-line GemTOF instrument at its facility to provide more information on gemstone origin.