The top 10 lots from Christie’s most recent sale
A pear-shaped, D color, VVS1 diamond weighing 89.23 carats sold for more than $11 million at Christie’s Magnificent Jewels sale held last Wednesday in New York.
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2014 Holiday: luxury jewelers continue strong into season – The Centurion
The Centurion 2014 holiday sales success index: luxury jewelers continue strong into season.
Retail words of the year, part II
I am, admittedly, a bit late in coming around to my second word of the year for 2014, as it’s already been done.
Chow Tai Fook considering stakes in diamond mines
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd., the world’s largest publicly traded jeweler, is checking out the purchase of stakes in diamond mines
Positioning Antwerp for growth
Q&A with Marcel Pruwer, President of the Antwerp Diamond Bourse.
IDEX Online Research: Young U.S. shoppers drove jewelry spending in 2013
Millennial American consumers – particularly those between ages 25 and 34 – spent more on jewelry than any other age group in 2013
ISG editorial: The RapNet monopoly
We got rid of the DeBeers monopoly…but traded it for another…
Retail words of the year
On Tuesday, Oxford Dictionaries named its 2014 “Word of the Year,” the orderly amassing of letters that, according to the professional wordsmiths at Oxford, has “attracted a great deal of interest during the year to date.”
Middlemen to be squeezed out of diamond industry
Q&A with Avraham (Bumi) Traub, Honorary President of the Israel Diamond Manufacturers Association and founder of A.B.T. Diamonds Lt.
De Beers is ‘changing with the times’
London – In a lengthy presentation Monday, De Beers executives gave Anglo American PLC investors an overview of its diamond business
Martin Rapaport says put America first
Putting America first and stressing the importance of adding value in the U.S. diamond and jewelry market was the cornerstone of a presentation by Martin Rapaport,
WFDB ends three-day analysis of operations in Antwerp
The World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) Executive Committee (EXCO) on Wednesday completed a three-day program of discussions and meetings