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Jewellery industry news from around the world.
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Jun- 2020 -2 June
DPA rebrands as the Natural Diamond Council
The Diamond Producers Association (DPA) has unveiled its rebranding to ‘Natural Diamond Council’ (NDC) with a new consumer facing identity and digital platform called ‘Only Natural Diamonds.’ As an industry authority, the NDC said it will continue to “invest in advertising globally but will also become the go-to digital publisher…
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May- 2020 -13 May
Alrosa ‘virtually stops’ trade in April
Alrosa Group announced it has “virtually stopped” selling rough and polished diamonds in light of the ongoing pandemic, though it has “remained committed” to its price over volume strategy. The world’s largest diamond miner by volume still sold $15.6m (£12.7m) worth of rough and polished diamonds in the month. Revenue…
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Jan- 2020 -17 January
Signet Jewellers performance ‘falls short’ over Christmas
Signet Jewellers, the parent company of H. Samuel and Ernest Jones, has reported a dip in like-for-like sales over the Christmas period. Its UK division saw like-for-like sales slide by 3.1%, which reflected a “difficult operating environment in the UK”. Whilst e-commerce sales grew by 15.8%, brick and mortar sales…
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Sep- 2019 -13 September
Vicenzaoro show reports increase in foreign visitors
The September 2019 edition of Vicenzaoro saw a 10% increase in foreign trade members, who arrived from 117 nations worldwide. Overall the rise in foreign trade members was led by the Middle East (+23%), North America (+22%), Russia and Ukraine (+19%) and Asia (+18%) with a particular increase by Japan…
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Jul- 2019 -22 July
Alrosa raises $6.5m at Vladivostok rough diamond auction
Diamond mining company Alrosa has summed up the results of the international auction for special size rough diamonds (over 10.8 carats) held in Vladivostok, Russia, this July. The company sold 112 gem-quality diamonds weighing 1,780 carats, and the total revenue from the sale of stones amounted to $6.5m (5.2m). Evgeny…
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Jun- 2019 -19 June
Gemometrics reveals GemPen’s ‘strong performance’ in DPA test
Gemometrics has revealed that recently published results from rigorous testing show that its GemPen diamond tester exhibited “high accuracy” on a mix of synthetic and natural diamonds. Tests conducted as part of the ASSURE-program led by the Diamond Producers Association (DPA), an alliance between ALROSA, De Beers, Rio Tinto, among…
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11 June
Former president of the GIA Glenn Nord dies
Glenn Nord, member of the GIA Board of Governors and past president of the Institute, died on Sunday, 9 June. Throughout his more than 50-year association with GIA, Nord was a student, instructor, president and member of the Institute’s board of governors. Nord, who turned 90 in 2018, earned his…
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5 June
Diamond Producers Association releases online tools for retailers
The Diamond Producers Association (DPA) has launched an expanded offering of educational assets available to the jewellery trade at the international trade show JCK Las Vegas. The association’s new asset package includes a free social media asset library that will be expanded regularly to help retailers feed their digital channels…
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May- 2019 -31 May
GIA adds country of origin reports for coloured diamonds
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has added natural coloured diamonds to its GIA Diamond Origin Report Service. The group said the “innovative” service, announced on March 28, scientifically matches faceted D-to-Z and now natural coloured diamonds to their original rough to confirm the gem’s country of origin. The GIA…
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24 May
RapNet to vote on synthetics service
RapNet, the world’s largest diamond trading network with daily listings of over $7.4bn (£5.8bn), will be voting on whether it should provide diamond listing and pricing services for synthetic diamonds. Voting will be limited to registered RapNet members who log in to RapNet.com and will take place from 26 May…
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