EGL Int’l shutting down as network reorganizes
EGL International, the lab that has become a flash point in the dispute over diamond grading, is shutting down, says Menahem Sevdermish, the EGL network’s new global manager.
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“With Diamonds Do Good, we want to share these positive stories with consumers”
As the Diamonds Do Good website goes online, Rubel & Ménasché wanted to find out about how the project came about and what it’s aims are. We met with Nancy Orem Lyman, the Executive Director of DEF.
Diamond Empowerment Fund launches new website celebrating diamonds
New York, Press release – The Diamond Empowerment Fund (D.E.F) launched today, the first of december, its new consumer-facing global website, diamondsdogood.com.
Chow Tai Fook considering stakes in diamond mines
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd., the world’s largest publicly traded jeweler, is checking out the purchase of stakes in diamond mines
Positioning Antwerp for growth
Q&A with Marcel Pruwer, President of the Antwerp Diamond Bourse.
IDEX Online Research: Young U.S. shoppers drove jewelry spending in 2013
Millennial American consumers – particularly those between ages 25 and 34 – spent more on jewelry than any other age group in 2013
Diamond cycles
Believe it or not, the fourth quarter is traditionally a slow period for the diamond trade. That may be a stark realization for some, especially on the eve of Thanksgiving weekend that signals the start of the Christmas shopping season.
ISG editorial: The RapNet monopoly
We got rid of the DeBeers monopoly…but traded it for another…
Retail words of the year
On Tuesday, Oxford Dictionaries named its 2014 “Word of the Year,” the orderly amassing of letters that, according to the professional wordsmiths at Oxford, has “attracted a great deal of interest during the year to date.”
Ernie Blom: open letter regarding over grading certification
Press Release : Open letter from Ernie Bmlom, President of the WFDB, regarding over grading certification.
OECD: no plans now to issue precious stones due diligence guidelines
OECD Guidelines: A replacement of the Kimberley Process? was the original name given by the organizers for Panel II at the Second Zimbabwe Diamond Conference that took place in Harare in early November.
Fixing the lab-grading mess
The World Federation of Diamond Bourses president Ernie Blom today put out a much-welcome open letter on diamond grading, which makes a firm statement about what constitutes acceptable behavior as far as choosing grading labs: