What does a new year hold in store for the Jewellers Association Australia? COLEBY NICHOLSON hopes a new president will mean dramatic changes, including the association talking to people!    [read...]

This month’s twin Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) trade shows are set to form the world’s largest annual jewellery marketplace once again, featuring more than 46,000 exhibitors from 50 countries.   [read...]

Lion Brands, a distributor of high-end Swiss watches, suddenly closed its business last week. Phone calls to the Melbourne head office on Friday were met with a recorded message saying, “This number is no longer in service and you cannot leave a message.”   [read...]

Six months after De Beer’s surprised the international jewellery industry by entering the synthetic diamond market, we explore whether the decision was a strategic move to ensure competitor innovation did not become blanket disruption or whether De Beers finally saw the light and realised lab-grown diamonds are not a menace after all?

Perhaps it’s even a little bit of both, or perhaps it doesn’t really matter anyway!

Our Great Diamond Debate might help you decide.   [read...]