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HRD Antwerp opens flagship Paris store
European grading and diamond certification authority HRD Antwerp announced that it has opened its first flagship store, in Paris, to help promote consumer confidence.
Why the biggest rough diamond in a century failed to sell
Even after a lot of publicity and excitement around Lucara’s 1,109-carat Lesedi la Rona rough diamond, the tennis-ball sized stone failed to sell at auction Wednesday.
Marketing to Boomers: why you need the “Me” generation
Your biggest marketing flub? Mistaking these hardworking multitaskers for a bunch of Facebook-fearing Luddites.
What Brexit may mean to the jewelry business
It could affect gold and watch prices, even Signet and Tiffany.
Marketing to Millennials: or Gen Y, as they’re also known
Millennial. Perhaps you’ve heard the word so many times you never want to hear it again or, worse yet, it’s lost its meaning.
Antwerp diamond industry debuts new campaign
The international campaign slogan is “Diamonds and Antwerp, it’s in our DnA”.
Graff reveals 105ct. flawless diamond in Paris
Graff Diamonds unveiled a pear, 105.07-carat, D, flawless diamond which was cut and polished by the jeweler’s own gemologists from a rough stone discovered in Lesotho last year.
7 questions on diamond marketing, demand
Earlier this month at an event in Las Vegas, the Diamond Producers Association revealed the slogan that will be at the core of a new millennial- and U.S.-focused generic diamond advertising campaign: “Real is rare. Real is a diamond.”
Antwerp’s pain, Dubai’s gain
Davy Blommaert, head of diamond lending at Dubai-based National Bank of Fujairah (NBF) and a former executive of Antwerp Diamond Bank (ADB), took time out recently to speak to Rapaport News.
Why Standard Chartered shut down its diamond unit
Standard Chartered Plc no longer will finance diamond traders and polishers after reevaluating its portfolio and determining there is too much risk for too little return in the sector.
Cullinan Dream sells for $25.4 million
It is the most expensive fancy intense blue diamond ever sold at auction. The 24.18 ct. Cullinan Dream sold for $25.4 million at the Christie’s June 9 auction in New York.