Q&A: Connoisseurs jewellery cleaning products

Connoisseurs, the jewellery cleaning product range, is soon to take the UK jewellery industry by storm thanks to the hard work by the UK team led by Philip Goodman. We caught up with him to find out about the brand’s progress. Can you give us a brief summary of the…

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Do auctions reflect trends, or do they set them?

Auctions certainly re-invent trends, resurrecting past styles to the forefront of current taste, with a new inventive take on the past. Collectors have been fascinated with great auction sales since the disposal of the great art collection of Charles I by the Parliamentarians. The 18th Century saw a wave of…

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Mococo relocates and expands its Chester store

Jewellery retailer Mococo has relocated its Chester store and more than doubled its size in bid to improve its presence in the city.  The store has been relocated from the Grosvenor Shopping Centre on St Michael’s Row to the corner of Foregate Street, a “more prominent location in the city…

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Footfall down 1% in May as high street slumps

Retail footfall in the UK fell for the second month in a row, according to British Retail Consortium figures.  The BRC and Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor reported a 1% decline in footfall in May, down from 0.8% fall in May and below the three-month average of 0.5%. Both high…

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Harriet Kelsall named as finalist for Responsible Business Award

Harriet Kelsall Bespoke Jewellery has made the final stage of the 2015 Responsible Business Awards, run by the Business in the Community, the Prince’s Responsible Business Network.  Hertfordshire-based Harriet Kelsall is one of just three companies to be named a finalist in the responsible small business category, which champions business…

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Birmingham Assay Office launches historical Assay Archives online

The Birmingham Assay Office has launched its Assay Archives online, showcasing its historical silver, coin and library collections to the wider public.  After receiving a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund – which enabled the assay office to transfer paper records of its museum collection online – the public can…

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Hallmarking up 3.1% in May

The total number of hallmarked articles in May grew by 3.1% compared with the same time last year, according to new figures released from all four of the UK’s assay offices.  According to the data, which was compiled by the Birmingham Assay Office, there was a total of 770,075 articles…

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Armed robbers take “hugely valuable haul” from Altrincham jewellers

Police are appealing for witnesses after four men – armed with metal bars and bats – raided a jewellery shop in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, making off with a “hugely valuable haul”.  The raid, which took place on Wednesday, June 10, at 12:20pm, occurred at David M Robinson jewellers on Railway…

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Gem-A members call for emergency EGM

Members of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain (Gem-A) are calling for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to question the board.  The online petition says that there has been concerns raised that the charity trustees are not fulfilling the charity’s “aims and objectives”, and that the charity is not being…

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Queen’s Club sponsor Rado releases tennis-inspired timepiece

Watch brand Rado has announced the release of a new limited edition watch – the HyperChrome Match Point.  The release follows Rado’s announcement that it is returning to Queen’s Club for the fourth consecutive year as the official timekeeper of the Aegon Championship – one of the world’s most prestigious…

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