Norwich-based Sonkai Jewellers has reopened for business after relocating from the city’s lanes to the Royal Arcade. Sara Sweet and partner Craig Snape, who run Sonkai jewellers, closed the doors for the last time in Dove Street at the weekend, where they’ve been for nearly a decade. After renovating the new shop, situated in the […]

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Unrest in Hong Kong hit jewelry chain Tiffany & Co. hard in its third quarter. The company reported that worldwide net sales of $1 billion and comparable sales were unchanged from the prior year. Excluding Hong Kong, worldwide net sales and comparable sales increased by 4 percent and 3 percent, respectively. Worldwide net sales for […]

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Thanksgiving weekend spending was up 16 percent over 2018 with 189.6 million U.S. shoppers hitting the stores. This was an increase of 14 percent over last year’s 165.8 million, according to the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. For the first time, Black Friday edged out Cyber Monday as the busiest day for […]

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Weston Beamor and Domino have confirmed that, following extensive testing and audit, they are confident that all of the diamonds that they use across each business are 100% natural stones. This guarantee comes after months of testing, undertaken in partnership with their core supplier, which involved the testing of more than 20,000 diamonds using technology […]

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In an installment on the best alternative advent calendars, This Morning featured Beaverbrooks’ 100K offer. With just over three weeks until the nation can open the first door on their advent calendar, TV presenter, Steve Wilson, shows This Morning presenters, Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield this year’s best alternatives to the traditional chocolate countdown. Kickstarting […]

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Sixty-four percent of consumers who bought jewelry visited a jewelry store to speak to someone during the purchase process, according to Jewelers of America‘s new Fine Jewelry Industry Consumer and Retail Market Study. That’s 26 percent more than other luxury items, the survey said. “When it comes to purchasing jewelry, the results of our survey […]

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This year’s Black Friday weekend was the most successful in history for online retailers, new research from digital agency Visualsoft reveals. The study, which analysed more than 1,600 of the UK’s top online retailers including Beaverbrooks, F.Hinds and Goldsmiths, H Samuel and Ernest Jones, found that average site revenues were almost a quarter (23%) higher […]

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H.H. King Philippe of Belgium who was in India on an official visit, made time in his busy schedule to grace a Round Table on “Best Practices from the Diamond Business to Foster Socio-Economic Development” organised in Mumbai jointly by The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) […]

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It’s not just enlisting Lady Gaga and speaking out on the Paris accords. Tiffany & Co. is doing all it can to elbow its way to the cool kids’ table. The company’s new CEO, Alessandro Bogliolo, has the kind of varied resume designed to drag the 180-year-old jeweler into the modern age, the task previously […]

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The over 187-ct Foxfire Diamond, the largest known rough diamond recovered in North America, is now making history of a different kind. From November 17 through to February 16, the gem will be on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History side by side with the world famous Hope Diamond in the Harry […]

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