CARLSBAD, Calif. – April 2019 – To comply with applicable laws, regulations and best practices, GIA is enhancing its ‘Know Your Customer’ (KYC) program. This program supports the high standards of integrity that align with GIA’s mission of ensuring the public trust in gems and jewelry. All new and current laboratory clients will be required to […]
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]]>GIA scientist Dr. Karen Smit is the lead author of Science magazine article Diamonds, long prized for their beauty and rarity, continue to reveal clues about the early history of our planet. To better understand how the most ancient continents came to be, researchers examined tiny mineral remnants trapped in diamonds during the formation of […]
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]]>Retailers participating in GIA’s Retailer Support Program can now use an enhanced collection of colored stone materials to tell the story of these beautiful gemstones to their customers. The materials – including brochures, counter displays and a birthstone flipchart – further the program’s mission to help retailers educate consumers about diamonds, colored stones and pearls, […]
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]]>On April 30, GIA will introduce the GIA Diamond Origin Report service which will confirm the country of origin of polished diamonds. To be eligible for this new service, the original rough diamonds and resulting polished diamonds must be submitted to GIA for analysis so that they can be matched to each other and to […]
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]]>GIA’s second annual GIA (Gemological Institute of America) London Jewellery Career Fair will be held on April 5, 11:30 am to 4:15 pm, at the Goldsmiths’ Hall, Foster Lane, London EC2V 6BN, for an opportunity to meet gem and jewelry industry recruiters from all over Europe. The event is free and open to the public. […]
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]]>Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has now expanded its bouquet of services under the Colored Stone Identification & Origin Report to now include alexandrite. It has thus added to the service which currently has ruby, sapphire, emerald, Paraíba tourmaline and red spinel under its purview. “Offering an alexandrite Identification & Origin Report continues GIA’s mission […]
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]]>Craig Selimotic Danforth will join the leadership team of Jewelers Mutual Insurance Group on Monday, January 28, assuming the role of Vice President of Client Solutions. Danforth has 25-plus years of sales, business development, marketing, training, and finance experience, most recently demonstrated as Director, Global Business and Development at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). […]
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]]>Dr. James Shigley and past recipients of the Richard T. Liddicoat Award for Distinguished Achievement at GIA’s holiday party in December. GIA distinguished research fellow; and Tom Moses, executive vice president, and chief laboratory and research officer. GIA bestowed its highest honor, the Richard T. Liddicoat Award for Distinguished Achievement, on Dr. James E. Shigley, […]
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]]>The GIA Global Leadership Program which was held at Harvard Business School (HBS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts was attended by 42 industry leaders from 11 different countries, the GIA said in a release. They were all CEOs or senior executives representing all areas of the industry – from manufacturing to retail, who examined the theme “Unleashing […]
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]]>Consumers looking for assurance and quality when shopping for diamonds, have one more tool to guide them. GIA’s “Retailer Lookup” is now available to help them search for retailers stocking GIA (Gemological Institute of America) graded diamonds and stores with GIA educated staff by city or postal code; and provides information like addresses, store hours […]
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