English designer Imogen Belfield and her chunky, gold nugget-esque designs were one of the standouts for me in Las Vegas last year, and I have been thinking about her Rock Cluster necklace since then.
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Chopard announced Friday that it has purchased Union Hôtelière Parisienne, the company that owns the luxury five-star Hôtel de Vendôme in Paris.
The Gemological Institute of America has hired longtime industry leader and Standard Chartered Bank executive Anna Martin as its new senior vice president of global development.
This week, WSMV-TV, an NBC affiliate in Nashville, Tenn., aired a two-part segment about Genesis Diamonds (not to be confused with lab-grown diamond company Gemesis), a local jewelry store that uses reports from EGL International, among other precious gemstone grading labs.
Another multimedia retailer reported that 2014 was off to a weak start, with sales for QVC essentially falling flat in the first quarter in a “difficult retail environment.”
Amazon Inc. announced Thursday that it has expanded its Sunday delivery, which is done through the U.S. Postal Service, beyond Los Angeles and New York to a number of new markets.
A new report states that the per-ounce price of gold might have already hit its high for the year and could briefly sink as low as $1,100 in the coming months.
Colored gemstone miner Gemfields PLC announced that it sold half of the lots offered at its auction of traded rough emeralds held in Jaipur, with the sale totaling $13.5 million, a 59 percent increased as compared with the same sale last fall.
Tiffany & Co. has opened its flagship store on Champs-Élysées, the Parisian avenue known worldwide for its high-end shopping.
A 29-year-old employee of Victoria Jewelers was killed Monday during a robbery in the store, marking the first homicide in the jewelry industry this year.

Jewelry brand David Yurman opened a new store in Edina, Minn. on Tuesday, the company’s first boutique in the Midwest state known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
A new president at Jude Frances jewelry and appointments at Sterling Jewelers and the Movado Group are among the recent career moves in the jewelry industry.

The New York Antique Jewelry & Watch Show is coming back to the Metropolitan Pavilion this July, with more than 100 antique jewelry and watch dealers slated to exhibit.
Precious gemstone miner Gemfields reported Friday that production of emerald and beryl at its Kagem mine in Zambia was 3.6 million carats in the third quarter, down from 6.5 million carats in the prior-year period.
Zenith announced Monday that it has found a replacement for Jean-Frédéric Dufour, who is leaving the brand to head Rolex.
Swatch Group has been “pointing out” to trademark authorities the similarity between the names “iSwatch,” the name of a plastic Swatch watch from 2013, and “iWatch” in countries where Apple has sought to trademark the term.
HSN Inc., the parent company of on-air and online retailer HSN, reported Thursday that the retailer’s sales were down 1 percent in the first quarter, with jewelry reported as one of its weak sellers.

Orem, Utah and Albuquerque are the latest markets where Nordstrom is opening Rack stores, as the retailer continues concentrating on its off-price division.
U.S. retail sales of platinum jewelry were up 11 percent in 2013 and are expected to grow another 11 percent this year, the Platinum Guild International said.
Online retailer Blue Nile reported that sales hit $103.7 million in the company’s first quarter, a 7 percent year-over-year increase.

The 24 Karat Club Southeastern U.S. is now accepting applications for the multiple scholarships it is offering.
U.S. consumers are expected to spend slightly less on mom this Mother’s Day and they will keep practicality in mind when shopping.

Schiffman’s Jewelers has been named the 2014 North Carolina Family Business of the Year in the century category by the Wake Forest University Family Business Center and Business North Carolina.
The United Nations Security Council has voted to lift the nearly decade-long ban on diamond exports from the Ivory Coast, freeing the country, which already has been cleared by the Kimberley Process, to re-enter the diamond trade.

In the wake of its massive data breach, Target Corp. announced Tuesday the hiring of a new chief information officer, Bob DeRodes, who has served as an advisor to both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department.