With that said, what may well be the most important change for the company has flown under the radar, with a third founding director departing with little or no acknowledgement.
As previously reported, there have been several significant changes to the way Jewellery Industry Network has operated and scheduled its jewellery shows this year.
For example, its Jewellery Industry Fair was recently held in Sydney (25-27 September) and was hosted on a new date at a new venue and, controversially, opened its doors to the public by promoting a ‘consumer day’.
These changes have been well-documented; however, what has not been publicised or reported is that Laura Moore is now the sole director of the company.
The Jewellery Industry Network was established in 2020, with Moore joined by three other directors and shareholders: Angkham (Andy) Phanthapangna, Brett Low, and Ewen Ryley.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) records show that Phanthapangna has quit the company. This follows the resignations of Low and Ryley in 2023.
Phanthapangna’s details were removed from the Jewellery Industry Network website sometime around January. Low and Ryley, who were previously listed as ‘founders’ of the Jewellery Industry Network, have also been removed.
As previously reported, the duo resigned from the company on the same day, 1 May 2023, amid a Federal Court case involving the directors of the Jewellery Industry Network.
This legal battle involved allegations of misleading and deceptive advertising published in a May 2022 brochure promoting the Jewellery Industry Fair. The case was eventually settled out of court in July 2023, and reportedly cost Moore and Phanthapangna between $80,000 and $100,000, a figure that has never been disputed.
The Commonwealth Courts Portal records the matter as ‘finalised’ on 19 July. Seven days after the settlement, on 26 July 2023, Moore distributed an industry statement correcting misleading claims and information about the trade show.
As mentioned, Low and Ryley had quit the company as directors and shareholders two months earlier, leaving Moore and Phanthapangna as the remaining directors and shareholders of Jewellery Industry Network at the time of the legal battle.
Departure gate
The reasons for Phanthapangna’s departure on 17 December last year are unknown; however, Jeweller has learned that two of his companies have recently been placed into liquidation, while an external Administrator has been appointed to a third company, which coincided with the opening day of the Jewellery Industry Fair last month.
Bernardi Martin, a specialist insolvency firm, has been appointed to the three Phanthapangna-owned companies.
The firm’s website states that it specialises in “helping businesses in financial difficulty through financial advice, turnaround strategies, informal schemes with creditors, voluntary administrations, deeds of company arrangements and liquidations.”
ASIC records show that Phanthapangna is the director of Banquet Creative, which is now in the hands of a liquidator that was appointed on 7 July 2025. Banquet Creative promoted itself as an advertising agency specialising in branding, design, strategy and communications.
Another company owned by Phanthapangna - Achievement Collective - was placed in liquidation the following day, 8 July 2025. Achievement Collective is a registered provider with the Federal government’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
The NDIS is an insurance scheme that provides funding and support to eligible people with significant and permanent disabilities. Registered providers are individuals or organisations that have been approved by the Quality and Safeguards Commission to deliver supports and services to NDIS participants.
A social media account for Achievement Collective states: “Our commitment is to build and strengthen people living with a mental health condition or disability’s resilience, self-belief and overall confidence by providing the best quality services tailored to support all aspects of someone’s life.”
Grow Fit Fund, a third Phanthapangna-owned company, was placed under Administration on 25 September 2025, also handled by insolvency firm Bernardi Martin.
Grow Fit Fund is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) and its website states that it offers “young people who are facing financial hardship, which prevents their participation, an opportunity to be included in sporting activities or the arts, including music programs.”
This publication has obtained the financial records of Grow Fit Fund, which raise many questions that will be detailed at a later stage. Jeweller understands that the ACNC is aware of Phanthapangna’s involvement with the collapsed NDIS company.
At the time of publication, enquiries were being made as to whether government regulators are investigating the status and collapse of the ACNC and NDIS registered entities.
Jeweller has contacted the NDIS, ACNC, and Bernardi Martin and is awaiting further information.
Industry Group Network
As readers will soon learn, the ownership structure of the multitude of companies for which Moore and/or Phanthapangna have a beneficial interest is complex; many are connected with the jewellery industry.
Most retailers and suppliers would, understandably, assume that because Jewellery Industry Network organises and promotes the Jewellery Industry Fair, this means Jewellery Industry Network is the owner of the fair.
This would be wrong!
ASIC records show that Jewellery Industry Fair is owned by another corporate entity - The Trustee for Jewellery Industry Network Unit Trust.
Phanthapangna’s departure may have also impacted trade publication Jewellery World, which was previously owned and controlled by another company trading as Industry Group Network.
ASIC records further show that this company, Industry Group Network, previously listed Moore and Phanthapangna as directors and shareholders via two other companies, Sharp Space and Alphabet Technologies, which were also owned by Moore and Phanthapangna, respectively.
Readers should note that the Industry Group Network may be easily confused with the Jewellery Industry Network; however, they are separate entities.
This complex corporate structure aside, ASIC records show that Phanthapangna is no longer a director and/or shareholder of Industry Group Network, having also exited that business on 17 December 2024.
Intriguingly, ASIC records show that Moore is also no longer listed as a director and/or shareholder of the company that, until recently, owned Jewellery World.
To add further confusion to the matter, ownership of Jewellery World was recently transferred from Industry Group Network to Moore’s Sharp Space company.
By way of background, Industry Group Network took control of Jewellery World from Jeremy Keight in July 2022, and Moore has been the editor-in-chief of the publication since that time.
With that said, Jewellery World has long provided editorial, promotional, and advertising support to various director-related businesses without disclosing these connections and associations between the directors and shareholders.
This will be documented in greater detail in a subsequent report; however, as an example, Phanthapangna’s now-liquidated NDIS provider, Achievement Collective, was promoted in Jewellery World in December 2023.
A number of similar connections to the other two collapsed companies, Grow Fit Fund and Banquet Creative, have also been noted.
The Australian Press Council’s statements of principles relating to print and online publishing declare that journalists and publishers should “Ensure that conflicts of interests are avoided or adequately disclosed, and that they do not influence published material.”
It is worth noting that this undeclared editorial promotion and advertising for businesses owned by directors and/or staff of Jewellery World is not a new occurrence; in fact, it could be described as ‘business as usual’.
Keight, the previous owner of the publication, was exposed in 2016 for publishing advertisements for businesses he owned and that competed against the magazine’s paying advertisers, as well as other industry suppliers. (See footnote below)
As previously reported, several director-related and family-related businesses of Moore and Phanthapangna have featured heavily in the promotion and marketing for the Jewellery Industry Fair, organised by the Jewellery Industry Network and frequently published in Jewellery World.
In fact, some businesses owned by Moore and/or Phanthapangna were even nominated as major sponsors of these trade events. This effectively means that companies owned by Moore and/or Phanthapangna were promoted as sponsors of their own company’s events.
All good things…
Jeweller reported the departure of Low and Ryley from the Jewellery Industry Network two years ago. Ryley clarified that he left for ‘personal reasons’.
At the same time, Low explained that he had decided to dedicate more focus to his business and added that he still supports both the Jewellery Industry Network and Jewellery Industry Fair.
Both based in Queensland, Low is a director of Deer Honey Jewellery, while Ryley is the creative director of Ryley Jewellery Creations.
Outside of their respective businesses, Low and Ryley are perhaps best known for establishing the Young Jewellers Group. This private company operates the Facebook page known as Jewellers Co.
It is interesting to note that Jewellers Co. once featured heavily as a supporter and sponsor of the Jewellery Industry Network and its Sydney and Melbourne jewellery fairs. However, the company’s logo and endorsement are now absent from the Jewellery Industry Network website.
The Jewellery Industry Network has long promoted itself as “Australia’s largest network of jewellers”.
This questionable claim was presumably based on its association with Jewellers Co., which, as explained, is no longer mentioned anywhere on the company’s website.
Furthermore, Jewellers Co. has previously been a sponsor and exhibitor at the Jewellery Industry Fairs; however, it was absent at this year’s event in Sydney in September.
Finally, Moore is no longer listed as a moderator or administrator of the Jewellers Co./Young Jewellers Group Facebook page.
Further details will be reported as they come to hand, alongside an analysis of the connections between the many companies owned by Moore and Phanthapangna and the way these entities have been intertwined with the Australian jewellery industry.
Laura Moore did not respond to Jeweller’s request for comment before publication, and attempts to contact Andy Phanthapangna were also unsuccessful.
FOOTNOTE: A history of director-related activitiesJewellery World has a history of promoting and advertising companies owned by the magazine’s directors and staff. Industry Group Network, was the company that acquired Jewellery World from Jeremy Keight in July 2022; and was controlled by Jewellery Industry Network directors Laura Moore and Andy Phanthapangna. Keight had acquired the magazine in 2015 from Intermedia Group, having previously been the publisher of Jewellers Trade. Shortly after acquiring Jewellery World, Keight announced that he would close the publication, marking the end of 34 years of publication. Confusingly, around one month later, Keight appeared to have a change of heart and instead elected to close Jewellers Trade. The following year, it was discovered that Keight was using the publication to promote a number of jewellery businesses that he and the magazine’s editor, Jo Thompson, owned. Some of the advertising for these companies competed with the magazine’s advertisers and other industry suppliers. For example, at the time Colour My Diamonds was one of the Keight-owned businesses advertised in his own magazine sold loose diamonds. Around the same time, Keight found himself embroiled in legal proceedings regarding false and untrue statements published in Jewellery World in an article about the launch of a trade show by the Jewellers Association of Australia (JAA). Keight settled the case out of court and later issued a formal apology, retracting the unfounded allegations. He is believed to have provided financial ‘compensation’ as part of the settlement, too. As documented above, similar legal issues resurfaced in 2023 when the Jewellery Industry Network was taken to court for misleading material published in a May 2022 brochure that advertised the Jewellery Industry Fair. As reported, Moore and Phanthapangna settled the case out of court. Finally, while Keight sold the publication to Moore and Phanthapangna in 2022, he is still confusingly promoting himself on LinkedIn three years later as the managing director of Jewellery World. However, the most recent issue of the magazine (October 2025) lists Keight’s contact information under ‘advertising enquiries’, not as managing director. Keight’s LinkedIn profile also incorrectly states that his involvement with Jewellery World dates back to 2009, six years before he acquired the magazine. Intriguingly, there is no mention of Jewellers Trade - the six-year-old publication that he closed. |
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