The R&M “Lettre”

Earlier this year, it would have been hard to believe that anything could top the consolidation of the industry’s two largest players, Zale Corp. and Signet Jewelers Ltd., in terms of news for 2014.

Digitally savvy jewelry brands are improving their web and mobile presences as the gap between them and those that are digitally deficient widens, a recent study by L2 shows.

I’ll start off this blog with a short confessional but not the scary, priest-behind-the-screen, say-10-Hail-Marys-type from my youth.

Our goal is to create a think tank, which will come up with ideas how to reach outside our closed circuit and bring people the message about diamonds, tell why they should buy them.

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.

The Centurion 2014 holiday sales success index: luxury jewelers continue strong into season.

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 Jewellery Group Ltd., the world’s largest publicly traded jeweler, is checking out  the purchase of stakes in diamond mines

Q&A with Marcel Pruwer, President of the Antwerp Diamond Bourse.

Millennial American consumers – particularly those between ages 25 and 34 – spent more on jewelry than any other age group in 2013

We got rid of the DeBeers monopoly…but traded it for another…

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.”