TK Maxx moves on jewellery market

Clothing retailer TK Maxx has arranged for hundreds of its staff to receive jewellery retail training ahead the launch of its new ‘jewellery counters’ at 15 stores across the UK. The fashion chain’s jewellery buyer, Lisa Hollidge, said: “We wanted to be able to offer our customers high quality, branded…

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CBI on Grimsey Review: ‘High streets have changed forever’

The CBI’s chief policy director, Katja Hall, has claimed that the high street cannot be “reinvented” after so much change as taken place in recent years. In response to the Grimsey Review, she said: “Rapid change in the retail sector means high streets have changed forever, and we can’t reinvent…

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Designer celebrates first anniversary after six-figure investment

An award-winning Worcester jeweller is celebrating the first year in her new premises following a six-figure investment. It is 12 months since jewellery designer Anja Potze, who creates bespoke pieces for a wide spectrum of national customers, ploughed £224,000 into the purchase of her new premises in the city’s Friar…

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Baird & Co opens new Singapore sales office

Bullion manufacturer and jewellery producer Baird & Co has opened a new sales office in Singapore. The office, which opened “for furniture to be wheeled in” today, will comprise around three sales people, and is expected to be an English-speaking operation. The firm says that Singapore has been seen as…

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Trollbeads acquires UK distributor Fable Trading

Trollbeads has acquired a majority stake in its UK distributor, Fable Trading. Fable Trading Ltd was established in 2005 as sole distributor for Trollbeads, the original Danish charm bead jewellery brand, for the UK and Ireland markets. Founding directors of Fable Trading, Sarah and Richard Morfoot, will maintain an interest…

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Jacobs the Jewellers wins Reading’s Independent Retailer of the Year

This year’s winner of Reading’s Independent Retailer of the Year has been announced as Jacobs the jewellers. The award was presented at the Reading Retail Awards gala dinner by a panel of independent judges in front of a packed ballroom at the Hilton Hotel in Reading. The family-run Berkshire jewellers…

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World’s first jewellery comparison website launched

The world’s first totally impartial, independent and free-to-use jewellery comparison website has been launched. Comparejewellery.com aims to make it easier and less risky for shoppers to purchase jewellery online and aims to be the “consumer champion of the jewellery world”, offering users a trusted online destination to search for “great…

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CIBJO and RJC announce Memorandum of Understanding at IJL

CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation and the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) while at the International Jewellery London Show. The MOU will work to further advance responsible business practices among all sectors of the jewellery supply chain and including the use of CSR education programmes…

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