17/01/2019
• Coleby Nicholson • Managing Editor
Former general manager of Leading Edge Group Jewellers (LEGJ), Josh Zarb, has joined Expertise Events. He assumed the position on 14 January, having left LEGJ in December last year.
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17/01/2019
• Coleby Nicholson • Managing Editor
Michael Hill’s New Zealand operating company has been fined $NZ169,000 ($AU160,000) after it breached warranty disclosure laws and misled customers into paying for warranties they did not agree to.
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17/01/2019
• Coleby Nicholson • Managing Editor
Arrested members of a South American crime syndicate are facing multiple criminal charges after allegedly stealing more than $1 million in jewellery and other luxury items throughout Australia.
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17/01/2019
• Coleby Nicholson • Managing Editor
Pandora has named Phil McNutt as the new managing director for Australia and New Zealand, coinciding with the recommendation of two new candidates for the company’s upcoming board elections in March.
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17/01/2019
• Coleby Nicholson • Managing Editor
Australia’s largest jewellery group, Nationwide Jewellers, has experienced an overwhelming uptake in its free diamond training program since its launch last year.
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17/01/2019
• Coleby Nicholson • Managing Editor
Around $52,000 worth of diamond jewellery, pearls and gemstones mistakenly ended up in a bag of second-hand clothes that was donated to charity.
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11/01/2019
• Coleby Nicholson • Managing Editor
The JAA’s new audit firm has called its 2018 Financial Statements into question and also identified a significant error in last year’s financial report to members.
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07/12/2018
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.
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06/12/2018
• Abe Sherman
ABE SHERMAN says bogus claims and overpriced products from synthetic manufacturers probably ‘forced’ De Beer’s into the lab-grown market.
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06/12/2018
• Chaim Even- Zohar and Pranay Narvekar
What is really behind the jewellery industry’s greatest U-turn? CHAIM EVEN-ZOHAR with PRANAY NARVEKAR analyse De Beers’ real motives.
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06/12/2018
• Paul Zimnisky
The global jewellery industry is estimated to be worth US$270 billion. PAUL ZIMNISKY reports on the staggering potential of the ‘new diamond’ economy.
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06/12/2018
• Garry Holloway
There is more than meets the eye behind De Beer’s move into lab-grown diamonds says GARRY HOLLOWAY. Indeed some of the early ramifications have been ‘unintended’, or were they?
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