Forget the electronics. One retailer in the Northeast said it is making its Black Friday offerings on point for the climate this year, giving customers who spend more than $1,499 a snow blower.
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Northeastern Fine Jewelry is continuing its tradition of competing with big-box retailers on Black Friday weekend by giving shoppers a special gift, and this year it’s going with wearable tech.

After a harsh winter last year, Lily & David Fine Jewelry in Saratoga decided it was going to boost its Black Friday promotions by giving customers things they not only want, but likely need.
A total of 10 retailers from five different sections of the country gave National Jeweler a rundown on what customers were buying at their stores over the weekend.
While Black Friday weekend sales figures don’t tell the whole story of the holiday season, they do lend some insight into consumer behavior.

The marketplace is jumping from Ebay over to Handmade by Amazon as the e-commerce giant continues to grow its presence in the handcrafted goods marketplace.

The big-box retailer is carrying the Sport edition of the smartwatch, which is available on its website and in a small, select number of its stores.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow will be the face of Barcelona-based jewelry and accessories brand Tous in 2016, which is now carried by more than 50 independent retailers in the United States.
Kering has appointed luxury industry veteran Sabina Belli as CEO of the Pomellato group, consisting of Italian luxury jewelry brands Pomellato and Dodo.
The manufacturer has signed an agreement with Hallmark Cards Inc. to create a line of jewelry branded by the well-known greeting card company.
Charm & Chain, a website that sells both fashion and fine jewelry, recently introduced its own brand called Mined, a line of 14-karat gold pieces set with diamonds.
The promotions of Amy Ash and Anjanette Sinesio will give CEO Todd Reed the ability to focus more on design and driving the vision of the company.

The redesigned site, which debuted Friday, has expanded consumer education features as well as additional resources for the trade.
The historically significant books about gems and jewelry now are available to the public online following their digitization by staff at the GIA’s Richard T. Liddicoat Library.

In 2016, Polly Wales will move her studio, workshop and core team of artisan wax-workers and goldsmiths to a new space in downtown Los Angeles as she eyes growth in the United States.
Bonhams’ record-setting week continued Tuesday in New York, when the auction house sold a 7.84-carat Kashmir sapphire for $1.35 million, or $172,000 per carat.

As part of a reorganization, EGL will no longer issue “EGL International” certificates and has vowed it is working to homogenize its grading practices worldwide. Menahem Sevdermish is at the head of this operation.
It came from none other than actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie Pitt, who worked with designer Robert Procop to create the piece for their “Style of Jolie” jewelry collection.
A 35-year-old man named Lewis Jones has been arrested in connection with a string of armed jewelry store robberies across the Southeast.
Weather, inventory challenges and deep discounts were factors retailers had to grapple with as they competed with each other and their own bottom line.
These expressions used to describe the current state of retail are so common they’ve become meaningless, even irritating. But you won’t quit hearing them, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Graff writes.
Free access to the IDEX Trading Floor as well as to the monthly IDEX diamond price reports are now available to the members of a number of key jewelry industry organizations.
Online sales in November-December 2015 rose 13 percent year-over-year, bolstered by the increasing number of consumers shopping on smartphones and tablets.
Element 6 alleges that IIa Technologies, the sister company of Pure Grown Diamonds, is using its patented diamond-growing techniques without permission.
The trial phase in the ongoing legal battle between Tiffany & Co. and Costco over the warehouse club’s sale of rings falsely labeled as Tiffany has been pushed back until June.