Carat* Jewellery: How it’s made

Inspiration   The first step in designing a piece of jewellery is finding inspiration. This starts by looking at the market and analysing our customers’ needs and preferences. Inspiration also comes from travelling and seeing new places, visiting museums and taking pictures, as well as looking at fashion shows or…

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Retail sector ‘to face £186.45m business rates increase next April’

Retail firms will see business rates increase by £186.45 next April for the year 2019/20, according to real estate advisor Altus Group. September’s Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation, announced on 17 October at 2.4% will determine business rate rises in England for the next year. It is its…

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Stuart Robinson Jewellers – £95,000

A unique opportunity to acquire a fantastic profitable retail jewellery business established in Norwich in 1998. Excellent city centre location in the ‘Lanes of Norwich’ Specialising in new, secondhand and antique jewellery Monitored alarm, CCTV, Safe and Electronic door lock. Strong turnover in excess of 300k, with high profit margins…

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Timepiece dedicated to historic Polish watchmaker up for auction

A timepiece dedicated to watchmaker Franciszek Czapek is up for auction at Fellows Auctioneers in Birmingham on Tuesday 30 October for £4,500 – £5,500. The watch brand is named Warszawianka due to it being a patriotic song in Poland, and there is an inscription on the dial which includes lyrics.…

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Design Walkthrough – Anaïs Paris

Following a soft launch to the jewellery trade at this year’s Jewellery & Watch Show in Birmingham, HD Group will announce the release of its third, and possibly final, brand later this year. The brand, Anaïs Paris, is inspired by the ‘floating locket’ concept which according to Adryan Cresswell, head…

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Bonhams appoints Brett O’Connor as senior international jewellery director

The international auction house Bonhams has announced the appointment of Brett O’Connor as senior international jewellery director and senior VP US. O’Connor will also join the US executive team. US-born O’Connor takes up his new position at the start of November based in Bonhams New York office. O’Connor is an…

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Voice on the Highstreet: Petra Jewellery

NAME: Mitch Lloyd, Petra Jewellery LOCATION: Hampshire YEARS ESTABLISHED: 35 NUMBER OF STAFF: Six WEBSITE: www.petrajewellery.com Tell us about Petra Jewellery? My mother set up the business in 1979 at the Viables Craft Centre in Basingstoke with just her apprenticeship pieces and a £500 loan from her own mother to…

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Selling advice: Do you talk too much?

Talking too much means repeating the same thoughts again and again which all over-talkers do.  In my sales seminars I tell salespeople that when they keep on blabbing, a customer’s desire to buy drops dramatically. The result  is that the salesperson ends up with the jewellery instead of the customer.…

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Farado Design launches ‘Knot an Engagement Ring’

Farado Design has launched the ‘Knot an Engagement Ring’ – a knot proposal ring for partners who wish to propose without a ring, and have their other half involved in the choosing process. ‘Knot an Engagement Ring’ is designed to be purchased to propose with and then kept as a…

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Hallmarking drops 11% as silver and platinum struggle

Hallmarking fell by an average of 11.7% in September 2018 compared with the same period the previous year, according to figures compiled by the Birmingham Assay Office. The number of silver and platinum pieces hallmarked decreased by 22.2% and 7% respectively. However, gold did increase 1.5% up from 364,440 to…

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