De Beers issues synthetics guidelines
De Beers has provided its rough-diamond clients and Forevermark partners with guidelines on how to operate in the lab-grown market if they wish to continue tapping into its branding.
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How to sell to female self-purchasers
Women who buy their own jewelry are a rapidly growing market, but retailers need to retool their approach if they want to attract these customers.
The diamond market will recover, though not yet, report says
The diamond market will likely overcome its current challenges by 2021, but until then it will weather another bumpy year or two, according to the annual report on the diamond industry prepared by Bain & Co. and Antwerp World Diamond Centre.
Sotheby’s reflects on 10 years of records
The past decade might be known for superheroes, Netflix and memes, but for Sotheby’s it was all about record-breaking jewels, as worldwide sales for the division totaled more than $4.7 billion.
The next diamond decade – The roaring ’20s
It wasn’t that long ago that De Beers declared the 2010s “The Diamond Decade.” Growth in China and India was projected to drive demand, while the US would take small steps out of recession. This is what Varda Shine, then-head of De Beers’ supply arm, the Diamond Trading Company (DTC), predicted in a 2010 interview […]
Alrosa’s Angola mine to start production in 2020
After six years of development, production is due to begin at Alrosa’s Luaxe diamond deposit in Angola next year, the nation’s government said.
ABN Amro tightens diamond lending terms
ABN Amro will implement changes to its guidelines for lending to the diamond industry in 2020, reasoning that the trade has become more efficient and now requires less credit.
ALROSA unearths large 191ct rough diamond at the end of the year
Press release – ALROSA unearthed this crystal in the early hours of December 25 at the Botuobinskaya kimberlite pipe in Yakutia. According to estimations made by ALROSA’s experts on site, a rough diamond weighing 190.77 carats has high quality characteristics.
Research: more people want gold jewelry than actually buy it
Many more U.S. consumers are interested in buying gold jewelry than actually do, according to new research from the World Gold Council.
Everledger and Alrosa launch WeChat ecom pilot
Technology company Everledger and Alrosa have launched a WeChat e-commerce pilot that will give Chinese consumers a more transparent and secure mobile diamond buying experience.
Chow Tai Fook Launches Jewelry Academy Partnership
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited, in partnership with French jewelry school Haute Ecole de Joaillerie (HEJ), has launched the Loupe Jewellery Academy.
De Beers rough diamond sales for cycle 10, 2019
US$425 million (provisional)