30/07/2013
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
International body HRD Antwerp will launch a Synthetic Diamond Certificate service later this year for lab-grown diamonds.
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30/07/2013
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
For the third time this year, Cannes has featured as the location of a major jewellery robbery, this time to the tune of EUR103 million (A$149m), also making it one of the world’s largest jewellery thefts.
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30/07/2013
• Emily Mobbs • Former Editor
Another online retailer has come under fire for making misleading claims
about the therapeutic benefits of its amber bead necklaces.
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30/07/2013
• Emily Mobbs • Former Editor
The Swatch Group has released its latest financial results for the first
six months of the year as well as plans for its recently acquired Harry
Winston brand.
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30/07/2013
• Emily Mobbs • Former Editor
The owner of a small jewellery business will soon have her design idea
for a silver pendant manufactured and sold by a prominent Australian
jewellery retailer.
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29/07/2013
How are your diamond jewellery sales at the moment and could they do with an uplift? Have your selling methods changed with the times?
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23/07/2013
• Coleby Nicholson
Jewellery valuation certificates continue to cause problems for the industry. COLEBY NICHOLSON was recently contact by a jeweller whose customer complained about his prices being too low!
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23/07/2013
• Emily Mobbs • Former Editor
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23/07/2013
• Emily Mobbs • Former Editor
Rio Tinto has reported a 47 per cent increase in diamond production for the second quarter of 2013, largely due to the rise in the number and grade of diamonds processed at its Australian mine.
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23/07/2013
• Emily Mobbs • Former Editor
In what is said to be a victory for independent watchmakers, the Swatch
Group has been prevented from dramatically cutting distribution of its
watch components to other companies next year.
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23/07/2013
• Emily Mobbs • Former Editor
Organisers have extended the registration deadline for one of the new
categories in this year’s Diamond Guild Australia Jewellery Awards.
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16/07/2013
• Emily Mobbs • Former Editor
The new Miss Universe Australia was announced last week, and while the presentation ceremony was ultimately a celebration of the winner, it also marked the unveiling of an important jewellery item.
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16/07/2013
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
The jewellery industry has been rocked by the fatal stabbing of a much-loved jeweller during a bungled armed robbery at his store.
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16/07/2013
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
A recently-graduated Perth jewellery apprentice has won a silver medal at the international 2013 Worldskills event in Germany, finishing just one point behind the eventual gold medal-winner from Korea.
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16/07/2013
• Emily Mobbs • Former Editor
A new £20 million (A$33m) synthetic diamond facility, which has been billed as the largest and most sophisticated in the world, has opened near Oxford in the UK.
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