Month: June 2017

Joanna Hardy launches first online jewellery school in the world

Global jewellery specialist Joanna Hardy has launched her own online jewellery school at Masterpiece this year. Powered by learningwithexperts.com, the school will be an interactive online classroom, with the opportunity to get personal advice from Hardy. The lectures also include exclusive footage filmed at Masterpiece, at top London jewellers and…

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Veritas Gifts brings out new bespoke cufflinks

Veritas Gifts has added to its jewellery offerings with new bespoke cufflinks for men. With pieces suitable for casual and formal affairs, the gift brand has attempted to market the cufflink as a “functional and fashionable” accessory that can suit all occasions. Veritas Gifts created ‘A Man’s Guide to Cufflinks’…

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Significant rise in business confidence

Overall business confidence has risen significantly since the start of the year, according to Lloyds Bank. The latest Business in Britain report from Lloyds Bank, based on data gathered after the snap election was called, showed that the confidence level had increased by 24%. The confidence index – an average…

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Upcoming jewellers recognised at New Designers Awards

Budding designers were given recognition at the first part of the New Designers Awards on 28 June. At a ceremony presented by British ceramicist Keith Brymer Jones awarded industry newcomers with their accolades. Silversmith Andrew Fleming, from the Glasgow School of Art, was given the New Designers Goldsmiths’ Company Silversmithing…

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Jeweller Elizabeth Gage honoured with MBE

British jeweller Elizabeth Gage has been named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List to receive an MBE. The Master Goldsmith has been creating jewellery for over 50 years and works with 18 and 22-carat gold. Her designs are inspired by different cultures, histories and nature and have become worldwide collectibles.…

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Mappin and Webb at Gleneagles Hotel raided by armed robbers

Armed robbers targeted the Mappin and Webb jewellery boutique at the five-star Gleneagles Hotel this week. Four men, who wore dark clothing and covered their faces, raided the store at 11am on Tuesday (27 June), and were seen by witnesses driving a later abandoned blue Audi. Three of the men…

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TH March ‘diamond girls’ go on charity Midnight March

Some 17 women from jewellery trade specialist insurance brokers, TH March, will be taking part in a midnight march for charity. The march will take place this Saturday (1 July) to help raise funds for St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth. The ladies have been preparing with healthy lunches, regular walks…

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Leatherman releases world-first multi tool bracelet

Leatherman’s multi-tool bracelet, the Tread, has been exclusively released in the UK by distributors Whitby and Co. In what the firm claims is a world-first, the bracelet serves as a wearable multi-tool piece of equipment. In a hope to capitalise on the upcoming wedding season, the Leatherman Tread is being…

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Hatton Garden watch dealer jailed for selling over 100 stolen watches

CLARIFICATION: When this article was first published, the featured image showed the premises of 88-90 Hatton Garden, which may have given the impression that businesses occupying this building were involved in the story. We would like to clarify that no business visible in the original image was involved in the…

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Two arrested after £1m armed robbery at Bristol jewellers

Two men have been arrested in connection to an armed jewellery raid where £1m worth of goods were stolen. Grey-Harris and Co in the Clifton area of Bristol, was hit by a daytime smash-and-grab when four men on two motorcycles used axes and sledgehammers to break the windows of the…

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