What Brexit may mean to the jewelry business
It could affect gold and watch prices, even Signet and Tiffany.
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De Beers launches limited third party rough diamond selling service
De Beers has announced that its Auction Sales business will launch a limited scope pilot service, offering certain diamond businesses an opportunity to sell specific types of rough diamonds on its online auction platform.
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”.
Interview with Andrey Polyakov, the new president of the World Diamond Council
The Alrosa VP speaks about human rights language, marketing, and—of course—synthetics.
Cullinan yields another ‘exceptional’ diamond
Petra Diamonds discovered a 121.26-carat rough diamond at its Cullinan mine in South Africa.
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.
ALROSA discovers 241-Ct. diamond in Yakutia
ALROSA found a 241.21-carat rough diamond at its Nyurbinsky mine in Yakutia, one of the largest recovered in Russia.
ALROSA sums up the results of the visit to the United States
Press release – Moscow – As part of the visit to the United States, ALROSA President Andrey Zharkov held a series of meetings with the major consumers of the Company’s diamonds and top managers of industry associations.
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.