11/05/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
Several diamond and jewellery industry associations have demanded Pandora Jewelry retract elements of a recent statement regarding its decision to stop stocking natural diamond, claiming it promotes the “false and misleading narrative” that lab-created diamonds are “an ethical choice” when compared with natural diamonds.
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06/05/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
Following the success of the 2021 Jewellery Industry Trade Days, organiser Expertise Events has announced the state-based buying events will return to South Australia and Western Australia next year.
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06/05/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
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06/05/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
Pandora Jewelry has launched its first collection set exclusively with lab-created diamonds, and has announced plans to phase out natural diamonds from its product lines.
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04/05/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
The Diamond Guild Australia has cancelled its 2020 Jewellery Awards after postponing the ceremony twice.
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03/05/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
The latest jewellery sales report compiled by Retail Edge Consultants revealed that sales in dollars for April 2021 increased 252 per cent compared with the same period last year and 40 per cent when compared with April 2019.
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29/04/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
The National Advertising Division (NAD) – the US advertising industry’s self-regulation body – has issued a warning to the Natural Diamond Council (NDC) following a complaint from lab-created diamond company Diamond Foundry.
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28/04/2021
• Trish Bucheli-Preece & Arabella Roden
The ceremony may have been more subdued than most, but this year's Academy Awards still managed to bring forth the star power – and some seriously A-list jewellery!
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26/04/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has withdrawn the grading reports for a number of diamonds and requested the stones be sent back for re-testing, over concerns an as-yet unidentified treatment could have gone undetected.
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23/04/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
Sydney-based casting, refining, and fabricated alloys firm Chemgold has opened a new location in Melbourne’s CBD, in order to serve the Victorian jewellery retail and manufacturing market.
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23/04/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
Auction house Leonard Joel has sold what is believed to be the largest and most expensive diamond ring ever auctioned in Australia.
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23/04/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
In its latest quarterly financial report for the trading period ended 28 March 2021, Michael Hill International (MHI), has recorded encouraging results, including a 16.4 per cent increase in same-store sales and revenue of $118.5 million, up 11.6 per cent when compared with the same period last year.
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21/04/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to the postponement of several international jewellery and watch fairs in 2021, including Italy’s Oroarezzo, the Hong Kong shows and the successor to Baselworld, HourUniverse.
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20/04/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
The latest jewellery trade report from Retail Edge Consultants shows sales in March 2021 were 63 per cent higher than the same month in 2020 and 37 per cent higher than in 2019.
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19/04/2021
• Arabella Roden • Editor
The US Department of the Treasury (USDT) Office of Foreign Assets Control has formally sanctioned Myanmar (Burma)’s state-owned gemstone trading company, Myanma Gems Enterprise (MGE) following a military coup in the Asian nation which has led to the deaths of more than 600 civilian protestors.
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