First quarter sales were strong worldwide for Tiffany & Co., with same-store and total sales in the Americas increasing due to broad-based growth across the United States.
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What’s there to view in Las Vegas? Rose gold, personalized pieces--which continue to be popular--plenty of color and, of course, bridal. Click through this slideshow to see selections from 25 JCK exhibitors.
Show organizers have expanded the Couture Design Awards by two categories in order to honor jewelry that breaks new ground as well as pieces that are distinctively extravagant.
Jewelers of America has launched the Buyer Discount Program to give its retail members merchandise and service discounts at select tradeshows, including the JA New York Summer show.
TIG Advisors LLC are “short-term opportunists” who are spreading inaccurate information about the proposed Signet-Zale merger and misrepresenting the facts, Zale Corp. has said in a letter designed to “set the record straight” regarding the deal.
Signet Jewelers Ltd. announced Monday that its finance arm has completed an offering of $400 million in senior notes and will use the proceeds to help fund its proposed acquisition of Zale Corp.

The American Gem Society recognized the New York/New Jersey Guild as its most active and productive in 2013, naming it as the “Guild of the Year” at its recent Conclave in San Diego.
Gemfields just announced that Select Jewelry Inc., a Queens, N.Y.-based jewelry design and manufacturing company, will distribute jewelry set with its gemstones to select specialty jewelers and big-box retailers in North America and Canada.
Investment firm Fides Business Partner has made a “strategic capital investment” in Antiquorum Auctioneers, the timepiece auction house announced recently.
Despite a dismal winter that hampered many retailers’ sales, J.C. Penney posted relatively strong first quarter same-store sales, with fine jewelry listed as one of its best-selling categories.
Zale Corp. is locked in a back-and-forth battle with TIG Advisors, which again urged the company’s shareholders to vote against the proposed acquisition of Zale by rival Signet Jewelers Ltd.

Bernie Robbins Jewelers is producing and selling the jewelry design of the Fashion Institute of Technology student who won the company’s 50th anniversary contest.
Albert Einstein once said that if bees were to disappear, mankind would only have four years left to live. Editor-in-Chief Michelle Graff looks at two collections designed to help make sure that doesn’t happen by contributing to organizations working to save the honey bee.
Demand for jewelry and complicated timepieces was “robust” for Richemont in the fiscal year ended March 31, offsetting the weaker performance of Alfred Dunhill, Chloé and Lancel.
Macy’s Inc. and Nordstrom Inc. reported mixed results for the first quarter ended May 3, with weather taking a toll on sales and off-price outlets continuing to outshine regular stores.

Anyone attending the Couture show in Las Vegas later this month can enter a contest to win a new Vespa scooter, valued at $10,000.

Forevermark has teamed with Precision Set to launch “Pure,” an exclusive collection that will debut at the JCK show in Las Vegas.

The Diamond Empowerment Fund announced this week that Grammy award-winning singer Chaka Khan will perform at its “Diamonds in the Sky” gala event on May 29 in Las Vegas.
The 2014 World Silver Survey shows that demand for silver jewelry continued to be strong last year while the metal’s average per-ounce price hit its third highest level on record.
The World Diamond Council announced Tuesday that it has a new president, vice president and treasurer following the first formal meeting of the organization’s new board of directors.
Pandora experienced a 30 percent jump in sales in the first quarter and is continuing to shift its focus away from independent retailers as it opens more and more concept stores.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of its lawsuit charging Sterling Jewelers Inc. with nationwide gender discrimination, alleging the chain paid female employees less and passed them over for promotions.

Fiera di Vicenza S.p.A, the company that operates VicenzaOro, and the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) will premiere a new international jewelry tradeshow in Dubai next year.
The size of the jewelry industry continued to contract in the first quarter, with the number of new businesses increasing only 1 percent year-over-year while consolidations nearly doubled.
Lee Berg, Doug Hucker and Joel Schechter are the American Gem Society’s 2014 Circle of Distinction honorees and will be recognized at a dinner at the Plaza Hotel.