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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.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America brought 16 jewelers together for its third annual fine jewelry showcase.

Both diamond miners continue to characterize diamond sales as being positive.
In time for the holiday season, the retailer will test Macy’s Backstage pop-ups in approximately 45 stores.

The top prize of the 16th Grand Prix D’Horlogerie de Genève went to Ferdinand Berthoud.

Custom jewelry is a category that’s growing, the majority of jewelers who took our latest survey said.
Ivanka Trump’s jewelry brand issued an apology after sending out a “Style Alert” regarding the jewelry she wore while appearing alongside the president-elect on “60 Minutes.”