Pranda

Pranda UK has launched a new website at www.Pranda.co.uk. Gold is more affordable and the market is showing signs that jewellers are re-stocking 9ct coloured gem set. Pranda’s online ordering enables you to buy little and often, and the range can be seen without prices visible, so you can show…

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Nicholas Interiors

The retail jewellery industry is rapidly changing with franchise brand names becoming more demanding for their own space and specialised shop fitting requirements. This can be lucrative for the shop outlets and an improved shopping experience for the customer. However the independent jewellers are suffering with some franchises moving out…

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Mancini

Silverfashion.com is a wholesale silver jewellery website. Its range comprises the finest quality silver jewellery manufactured in its Bangkok factory. With over 25 years’ experience in diamond jewellery manufacturing, Silverfashion.com has expanded these skills to the silver market bringing its finest jewellery to the UK. It supplies some of the…

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SELLING: Are you rewarding your over-achievers?

Our sales guru LEONARD ZELL holds forth on why a group commission structure will lose you sales on the long term. Reward sales superstars individually, however, and you’ll be quids in. In the US, salary plus commission is far more prevalent than the UK. For some reason many jewellers in…

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Shop vacancy rate remains at its lowest level since June 2010

Britain’s shop vacancy rate in June remained stable at its lowest level since June 2010, according to the latest figures. Data compiled by the Local Data Company  found the vacancy rate stayed unmoved at 13.4% in June. The picture remained stable across both retail and leisure uses which is reflected…

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Mario Masenza collaboration jewellery to be sold at auction

Jewellery produced in the mid-20th century by artists in collaboration with Italian jeweller Mario Masenza will be sold in a 220-lot sale of fine jewellery at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions.  The wider auction will feature collections from the UK and Europe, spanning across the late 18th Century through Victorian, Edwardian…

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Second car recovered in Hamilton & Inches investigation

Police officers in Edinburgh are issuing a fresh appeal for witness to come forward after another car linked to the Hamilton & Inches raid was recovered.  Enquiries are on-going into the high-value armed robbery which took place on June 6, when three men dressed in dark clothing entered the store…

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Signet Group announces major management re-shuffle

Signet Jewelers today announced that Ronald Ristau resigned from his position as CFO, as did Theo Killion, the president and CEO of the recently acquired Zale division.  Current senior vice president and controller Michele Santana has been promoted to CFO designate, effective immediately, and George Murray, Signet’s current chief integration management…

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Gemstone entrepreneur Ostro awarded OBE

Gemstone industry entrepreneur Maurice Ostro has been appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Ostro, who is  chairman of Ostro Minerals, was awarded the status in recognition of “his role in business, charity and interfaith relations”. The firm has grown into one of the world’s leading producers of blue topaz since its founding in…

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Young Scottish jeweller awarded £10,000 to fund brand

An emerging Scottish jeweller, Moira Warren of Patience Jewellery, has been awarded £10,000 at the EDGE Awards to develop her brand. In a competition dubbed Scotland’s ‘real life Dragons Den’, the young entrepreneurs are put through a tough application process complete with 11-minute pitch in front of a panel of…

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