Alrosa pilots GIA’s M2M program
Press release – GIA (Gemological Institute of America) announced today that Alrosa, the world’s largest producer of rough diamonds, is piloting in the Institute’s M2M program.
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Here’s how consumers plan to shop this holiday season
The NPD Group polled a group of consumers to gauge their holiday 2018 shopping plans, and participants indicated more interest in brick-and-mortar shopping than last year.
The 10 trends that will shape retail in 2019
From greater personalization to “social shopping,” retailers are finding technologically driven ways to meet shoppers’ needs, says “The Trends Shaping 2019,” a new report from credit card company Alliance Data.
Zimnisky talks about pink diamonds, De Beers’ Lightbox
An independent diamond industry analyst and consultant said although exceptional and ‘one-off’ diamonds are hard to assign a value to them, the Pink Legacy will likely fetch $2.64 million per carat when it goes under the hammer next month in Geneva.
IDE expands partnership with Alibaba, launching venture at CIIE in Shanghai
Israeli diamonds will now be offered for sale directly to Chinese consumers on Alibaba’s luxury platform, Ali Auction (paimai.taobao.com).
‘The Moon of Baroda’ is going back up on the block
It is a 24-carat yellow diamond with an intriguing back story, and it’s going back up on the auction block this fall.
Gem diamonds unearths 357-carat brown diamond
Gem Diamonds has recovered a 357-carat light brown rough diamond from its Letšeng mine in Lesotho, which the company says is the highest dollar-per-carat kimberlite diamond mine in the world.
This was the best royal jewelry moment of the decade
Even if one’s not overly interested in the British royal family (guilty as charged), it’s always worthwhile to see the jewels that its millennial members choose to sport at their royal weddings.
De Beers rough diamond sales Cycle 8, 2018
De Beers Group today announced the value of rough diamond sales (Global Sightholder Sales and Auction Sales) for the eighth sales cycle of 2018.
3 predictions for the jewelry business in 2019 and beyond
At the conclusion of last week’s 2018 GIA Symposium, I looked at my laptop and realized I’d taken 23 pages of single-spaced notes starting the moment the three-day event kicked off on Oct. 7.
Five essentials diamond truths
Press release – Long before there was life on Earth, there were diamonds. Most were created one to three billion years ago.
De Beers’ Lightbox brand: early reviews and future plans
De Beers’ first announcement of its lab-grown diamond line set the jewelry world on fire. But the week of the 24th September Lightbox Jewelry debuted, and the world still seems mostly the same.