The owners of the Cumberland Diamond Exchange talked with National Jeweler about hiring the right people and how long customers spend in their jewelry store. (Hint: It’s not long.)
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Shirley Kulchinsky, the trailblazing matriarch of Long Island, N.Y. retailer Mayfair Jewelers, died Saturday.
Trainer Pat Henneberry gives salespeople three pointers on how they can generate their own leads, instead of waiting for customers to come to them.
The head of a Seattle-based credit card payment processing firm will be bringing home considerably less bacon after raising the minimum wage at his company to $70,000 a year.
This Mother’s Day, Toms River, N.J. retailer Corinne Jewelers is taking its design cues from 9- and 10-year-olds to create a custom piece for one local mother figure.
The retailer is using a 72-foot tall display in one of America’s busiest airports to promote its new men’s timepiece collection, CT60.
However, the legislation has little chance of going anywhere, at least for now, as it faces opposition from both the Senate and the president.
The sale of the internally flawless, D color Type IIa diamond marked several auction firsts but still fell slightly short of its highest pre-sale estimate of $25 million.
The Lexington, Ky. jeweler was honored for his commitment to his community and the jewelry industry.
The online retailer will close Amazon Supply next month and redirect customers to its new business-to-business wholesale site, Amazon Business.
The Diamond Empowerment Fund has named the nonprofit Veerayatan as the first educational institution in India to receive its funding, awarding it a $50,000 grant.
The Swatch Group is limiting its entry into the field of smartwatches to new models in its low-priced Swatch range and $2 near field communication chips.
Tous, the Barcelona-based brand known for its signature bear, is searching for a distributor as it considers opening more doors in the United States.
Inspired by pilot’s watches from the 1930s, Patek Philippe created the Calatrava Pilot Travel Time to appeal to a younger generation of watch buyers.
The Swatch Group-owned brand debuted what it is calling its most advanced automatic watch ever, a timepiece certified as a “Master Chronometer.”
An Antwerp law enforcement official who has been spearheading investigations into wrongdoing in the diamond industry for more than a decade now finds himself on the other side of the law.
Following the passage of a controversial religious freedom law, at least two Hoosier State jewelers are among the businesses that want to make their stance on discrimination known.
Running in both print and digital, the advertising campaign focuses on metalsmiths. It won an award earlier this month.
Richemont announced Tuesday that it will merge its online-only luxury marketplace Net-a-Porter, which sells fine jewelry along with clothes and accessories, with Yoox.
Swatch Group reported Thursday that its profits declined sharply in 2014, amid moves it is making to combat the strong Swiss franc and launch a competitor to Apple Watch.
The Swatch Group-owned brand’s new spot, which features the T-Touch Expert Solar, is its first television commercial to air in the United States.
Jewelers of America has inducted Waterville, Maine-based Day’s Jewelers into its JA 100 Club to celebrate the retailer’s century in the jewelry business.
The Sothern Trust has accused the auction house of cancelling sales from the record-setting sale of the late actress’s jewelry without good reason and not paying the trust for other items that were sold.

The increase in demand was slight, however, at 1 percent and was aided by sales of gold jewelry for Mother’s Day.

The retailer currently has 728 stores, including 675 full-line locations, and said it will shutter 100 of them next year.















