The R&M “Lettre”

LVMH reported double-digit revenue growth in its third-quarter results, buoyed by a strong performance across all segments from watches and jewelry to wines and spirits.

Press release – Evgeny Agureev, who has been a director of the United Selling Organization of ALROSA (USO) since 2017, was appointed as Deputy CEO of ALROSA. He will continue to lead the USO and oversee the sales unit.

Six lab-grown diamond companies and retailers have signed up for a pilot program that will audit their environmental, social, and governance performance against preset criteria.

Press release – ALROSA Group announces diamond sales results for September and nine months of 2019.

Press release – WDC focuses on strengthening the scope of Kimberley Process during 2019 Annual General Meeting in Antwerp.

Rio Tinto has unveiled a necklace-and-ring set worth $1.1 million, created from 673 diamonds recovered from its Argyle mine in Australia. 

Press release – The new campaign from the DPA’s Real is Rare, Real is a Diamond platform tells the epic journey of a natural diamond, 3 billion years in the making.

Petra Diamonds will hold a special tender of the 20.08-carat blue diamond. The stone, a gem-quality Type llb diamond, was recovered from the Cullinan mine in South Africa last month.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has blocked the import of rough diamonds mined from the Marange fields in Zimbabwe, claiming they were produced using forced labor. 

The National Retail Federation said Thursday it expects holiday retail sales to increase between 3.8 percent and 4.2 percent compared with last year.

Press release – RJC enters into a partnership with the United Nations Global Compact to advance impact and innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Press release – Us$295 million (provisional).