How virtual inventories can boost your business

Dropshipping is relevant for all types of retailers looking to offer an expanded assortment and a reliable logistical infrastructure, but for independent jewellers expanding online, drop shipping could be the answer they need to boost their bottom line. What is drop shipping? Drop shipping is a supply chain relationship between…

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‘Landmark year’ of jewellery sales for Sotheby’s

Auctioneers Sotheby’s recorded a ‘landmark year’ for jewellery sales in 2018, with worldwide sales totaling $414m (£328m) for the year. Worldwide watch sales totalled $88.5m (£70.2m), up 60% on 2017 ($55.4m), with 55% of the bids for watches being placed online (42% for jewellery sales). The number of jewels sold…

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Voice on the High Street – Rachel Jeffrey Contemporary Jewellery

Tell us a bit about your company From the age of 16 I enjoyed making jewellery as an evening class, and then I went through my art education which leaned heavily towards working with metal. I did my degree in jewellery and silversmithing, and after I graduated in 1992 I…

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Selling tips: Where is the manager?

So, where are they? Where they usually are, in the back. This is one of the  problems that aggravates jewellers the most. One jeweller I have met was so perplexed he even found some humor in it by saying: “Leonard, if my store was a ship it would capsize.” Owners…

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Boxing Day footfall falls for third consecutive year

Footfall declined by 3.1% on Boxing Day, the third consecutive year in which footfall on Boxing Day has been lower than in the year before according to the latest figures from Springboard. Springboard said the fall “indicates the lessening in importance of Boxing Day as a trading day”. Over the…

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Brand Profile: Simon Harrison

Do you think that fashion has a significant role to play in jewellery? Yes, absolutely. Fashion can liberate us from the daily routine of our lives; lift our spirits and make us smile. My personal view is that jewellery is a part of fashion, not something different or separate from…

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Voice on the High Street: E.C One

Name: E.C.One Location: Clerkenwell, London Established: 1997 Number of staff: 10 Website: www.econe.co.uk Tell me about the history of EC One? E.C.One is celebrating its 21st birthday this month. We started in an old butchers shop in a rundown street in Clerkenwell. Over the past two decades, Alison and I…

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Raw Pearls to launch pearl training videos for sales teams

Award-winning pearl jewellery supplier, Raw Pearls is to launch a series of pearl training videos for retail sales teams. Raw Pearls has curated seminars with what was Holts Academy in London and has also given in-store team training by appointment with their retailers. Raw Pearls said the release of the…

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Global diamond jewellery sales rise 4%, Alrosa finds

Worldwide diamond jewellery sales grew by 4% in Q3 2018 according to Alrosa’s global luxury and jewellery market research. North America, the largest diamond jewelry market, was found to have experience a 4% sales increase in Q3 compared to the same period last year. According to key retailers, stable growth…

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Chisholm Hunter expands its retail portfolio

Jeweller and diamond retailer Chisholm Hunter has further expanded its retail portfolio with the opening of a Glasgow flagship watch boutique as well as a new store in Bluewater shopping centre. Chisholm Hunter invested £1.5m investment into the new Bluewater store which has seen the jeweller double its space within…

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