Features
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Dec- 2020 -10 December
Political jewellery: In a political world
Can you tell me a little about your history in relation to the jewellery industry? You could say I joined ‘the industry’ when I was just a few years old and used to draw incessantly and come up with my own designs. I even remember that sometimes I used to…
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9 December
Q&A with Joshua James Jewellery
Give me a brief description of your business? Joshua James Jewellery has been on the go for 10 years, and we mainly sell branded products, although we’ve started going heavily into our own brands over the last 12 months. Our biggest brands are the usual suspects: Nomination, ChloBo and Swarovski,…
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8 December
The final frontier
The universe is infinite, and so likley are its resources. One of the earliest thinkers of the modern space-mining is John S. Lewis, the current professor emeritus of planetary science at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. He wrote his book, Mining the Sky, as early as 1997.…
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Nov- 2020 -23 November
Sixty-second interview: Fenton & Co
Describe yourself in three words? Passionate, impatient, loyal. How did you get to be where you are today? Drive and willingness to annoy people who are more important than me. Which aspect of your job do you enjoy most, and why? Everything apart from the admin. What is your proudest…
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Oct- 2020 -14 October
Q&A with 247 Diamonds
Tell me about the history of the business? We started the very first UK jewellery presence on the Internet, launching a ‘net based B2B service in the text based black hole that was the Internet before the World Wide Web, we are talking late 1980’s, way too early, we must…
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1 October
The new ‘conscious consumer’ and how brands can impress them
Locking down the world for months was bound to leave a lasting legacy on society. One of the most positive outcomes is the increased awareness of our impact on the environment. Carbon emissions fell drastically, the water in Venice ran clear and wild animals began to roam in locked-down cities[1].…
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Sep- 2020 -11 September
Edge of Ember: Forging a sustainable future
As we enter the age of the unknown following the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, industries are finding themselves at a crossroads and looking for change. While consumers and creators begin to look beyond traditional norms, more and more brands have turned towards diamonds’ much younger cousin: the lab-grown variety. …
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8 September
Getting closer to Colombia’s emeralds
Every emerald should tell its own story, from the day the precious gemstone is mined and held to the light for the first time, to the moment the customer holds a jewel of such beauty in their hand. Colombia’s Chivor, Coscuez and Muzo mines produce the finest emeralds in the…
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3 September
Building platinum jewellery sales in a post-pandemic world
The COVID-19 crisis has profoundly affected the fine jewellery market in 2020, but recovery is already underway. While it is too soon to say when the industry will fully recover, there is no question that consumers are willing to make fine jewellery purchases post pandemic, and fine jewellery buyers tend…
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3 September
HMRC and Covid-19: One hand giveth, the other taketh away
One hand giveth HMRC was responsible for overseeing and implementing the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“CJRS”) and other furlough schemes. Its ensuring that monies were paid under the Government’s various furlough support schemes has been impressive. Although the guidance on who was entitled to monies under the CJRS was…
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