The R&M “Lettre”

Dear Readers, This week our Lettre focuses on jewelry and the retail sector.

Alrosa is to expand its sale of polished fancy color diamonds direct to wealthy individuals.

Press relase – ALROSA reports preliminary rough and polished sales results for 2021.

Sherry Smith, Peter Smith and Edahn Golan join Editor-in-Chief Michelle Graff and try to answer the question, how long will the party last?

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has appointed Anna Martin as senior vice president for institute and industry relations.

Press release – De Beers Group [announced on December 22] the value of rough diamond sales (Global Sightholder Sales and Auctions) for the tenth sales cycle of 2021.

A new year, a new way of doing business. Alrosa introduced changes on 1 January which will, it says, provide buyers with more of what they want, and less of what they don’t.

Halfway through the peak selling period, the trade is optimistic as the US, India and Hong Kong see an upturn. 

De Beers, Alrosa and Rio Tinto have released their schedules for this year’s contract sales, at which the miners offer the majority of their rough supply.

Shops need to upgrade their digital offerings if they want to keep pace with e-commerce.

There were many who powerfully influenced the market in the past year, but one candidate stood out from the rest.

You see what we did with that headline? Yep, anything with those words at the top (plus a bit of De Beers and the GIA) attracted readers in 2021, whether it related to the astonishing rebound in retail sales, the sharp rise in rough prices, or the seemingly growing incidence of traders trying to misrepresent […]