27/11/2012
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
While there might be some conjecture surrounding Australia’s Miss
Universe entrant’s national costume, at least her diamond accessory gift
to the pageant will be raising eyebrows for the right reasons.
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27/11/2012
• Dean Millard • Staff Journalist
While Australia has not gone into recession technically, there is no doubt that certain segments of the economy have fallen on hard times however it's not all doom and gloom.
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27/11/2012
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
Leading UK-based coloured gemstone mining company Gemfields is poised to purchase luxury jewellery brand Fabergé with a view to creating “a globally-recognised coloured gemstone champion”.
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27/11/2012
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
After a “sting” operation, government authorities have warned not only consumers but gold-buying businesses about discrepancies in prices offered for secondhand gold jewellery.
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22/11/2012
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
Organised by the Australian Retailers Association (ARA), the Australian Retail Awards were announced this morning in Sydney by Russell Zimmerman, executive director of the peak industry association.
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21/11/2012
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
In a tale resembling a Hollywood plot, a lesbian love triangle, involving blackmail and fraud, has robbed an Australian jewellery chain of $1.4 million and forced the closure of six of the company’s stores.
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19/11/2012
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
Hollywood blockbuster movie Expendables II can add the name Jacques
Lemans to its list of action heroes while closer to home, the popular
watch brand is “pulling on the boots” for an Australia A-league soccer
club.
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19/11/2012
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
Eric Clapton’s watch sold for a record $3,531,706 at Christie’s recent
Geneva watch auction. But it wasn’t the only timepiece to
“over-achieve”.
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19/11/2012
• Dean Millard • Staff Journalist
South African police have arrested a man they claim swallowed 220
polished diamonds in an attempt to smuggle them on a flight to Dubai.
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19/11/2012
• Dean Millard • Staff Journalist
Jewellery retailer Linneys has continued its use of celebrity
ambassadors by using Belgian Victoria’s Secret model Jessica Van Der
Steen for its 2013 collection, Gardens of Eden.
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19/11/2012
• Dean Millard • Staff Journalist
In another example of the changing face of retailing, international
brand Juicy Couture has created a YouTube video that allows consumers to
click on the jewellery and be directed to its online shop. Watch video.
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19/11/2012
• Coleby Nicholson
Upmarket diamond jeweller Harry Winston has acquired BHP Billiton’s 80
per cent stake in the Canada-based Ekati mine while a Hong Kong retailer
has signed a two-year contract to source rough diamonds directly from
Russian producer Alrosa.
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13/11/2012
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
In what’s believed to be a world first for the industry, a jewellery fair is being held aboard a $40 million, 228-foot luxury mega-yacht and an Australian company is participating in the international event.
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13/11/2012
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
“And what colour would you like your gold, madam? Red? Green perhaps?” A ground-breaking initiative has discovered how to change the colour of the world’s most iconic precious metal.
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13/11/2012
• Jeff Salton • Assistant Editor
Archaeologists have discovered a 2,400-year-old golden hoard in an ancient Greek tomb in Bulgaria. Gold jewellery was among the artifacts including four bracelets and a ring.
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