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The Annual General Meeting of the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI) was held in Ottawa on 27 and 28 April. Élodie Daguzan, the new Goodwill Ambassador for the DDI and Head of Communication at the Parisian diamond company Rubel & Ménasché, had the pleasure of attending this AGM.
India’s diamond industry is working to produce guidelines for banks to reduce their risks when lending to the trade.
Consumers are planning to spend as much as $4.6 billion on jewelry for Mother’s Day this year, according to the National Retail Federation.
There is some anticipation for the coming months at Tiffany & Co. A year after joining the company, its celebrated chief artistic officer Reed Krakoff is readying to launch his first new jewelry collection on the job.
Kering reported buoyant jewelry-and-watch sales in the first quarter, driven by new collections and extensions of certain product lines.
Robust demand for steel watches drove Swiss timepiece exports upward in March, closing off the industry’s strongest quarter of growth in six years.
An ultrarare 3.47 ct. fancy intense blue diamond ring sold for $6.7 million at Sotheby’s latest Magnificent Jewels in New York City on April 19.
By far the most important announcement this week was that of the De Beers Group that it is preparing to pilot a program called GemFair
Yoox Net-a-Porter, the high-end e-tailer, has opened a new section of its site that is dedicated to fine jewelry and watches. It will feature more than 40 brands, including Piaget, Cartier, Pomellato, Tiffany & Co. and Buccellati.
A grading laboratory in China has discovered a synthetic diamond masquerading as a natural stone, complete with a forged inscription and a falsified report.
The diamond industry has for decades, done business with a truly international pipeline — diamonds are mined in some continents
According to Antwerp World Diamond Centre spokeswoman Karen Rentmeesters, the standard hackathon is a “gathering of nerds” who spend three days locked in a room working on computer code, fueled by fast food and energy drinks.