Bespoke
Bespoke jewellery continues to grow in demand, offering consumers personalised, one-of-a-kind pieces while providing jewellers and designers with lucrative opportunities. For UK trade professionals, the bespoke market requires insight into customer trends, craftsmanship innovations, and marketing strategies to deliver tailored experiences. Jewellery Focus covers the bespoke sector in depth, including design processes, technology such as CAD and 3D printing, business case studies, and insights into scaling bespoke services within retail operations.
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Jan- 2019 -7 JanuaryBusinesses For Sale
Businesses for sale: Attractive business opportunity in picturesque Cornish fishing village
This is an amazing opportunity to acquire an existing, successful jewellery business with separate workshop included. Porthleven is a picturesque fishing village on the south coast of Cornwall, set between Land’s End and The Lizard with great local support and year round seasonal trade. The shop and the workshop [pictured]…
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3 JanuaryVoice On The Highstreet
Voice on the High Street – Rachel Jeffrey Contemporary Jewellery
Tell us a bit about your company From the age of 16 I enjoyed making jewellery as an evening class, and then I went through my art education which leaned heavily towards working with metal. I did my degree in jewellery and silversmithing, and after I graduated in 1992 I…
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2 JanuaryVoice On The Highstreet
Voice on the High Street: E.C One
Name: E.C.One Location: Clerkenwell, London Established: 1997 Number of staff: 10 Website: www.econe.co.uk Tell me about the history of EC One? E.C.One is celebrating its 21st birthday this month. We started in an old butchers shop in a rundown street in Clerkenwell. Over the past two decades, Alison and I…
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Dec- 2018 -11 DecemberFeatures
Voice on the High Street – Dower & Hall
Tell me about the history of Dower & Hall? My wife, Diane Hall, and I established Dower & Hall in 1990. After meeting at Middlesex University while studying jewellery design, I opened my studio in 1987 and Diane joined me after working as an in-house jewellery designer at various labels.…
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10 DecemberFeatures
Lowe & Sons reopening – A grand return
“It’s part of the local heritage, and when we closed down I was getting phone calls from Australia, America and France, from clients whose families have been dealing with us for over 100 years,” says Kevin Parry, the newly reinstated part-time manager of the recently reopened Lowe & Sons jewellery…
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5 DecemberFeatures
Voice on the High Street: Garnier Jewellers
Please tell us about Garnier Jewellers Garnier Jewellers was originally set up in 1962 by Paul Garnier and his wife in a small shop in Hoddesdon, a secondary position in a side street. They very quickly began to run out of space and decided to move to a new development…
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5 DecemberRetailers
Sproules Jewellers completes £500,000 refurbishment
Sproules Jewellers in Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland, has unveiled its newly refurbished premises following a significant investment with support from First Trust Bank. The new 2,500 sq ft extension has seen the creation of a new ‘Diamond Room’ with two champagne bars overlooking the city where customers can browse and select…
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4 DecemberRetailers
Master jewellers Steven Stone opens its new showroom in Manchester’s Spinningfields
Steven Stone, the bespoke jeweller specialising in diamond and gem set jewellery, is opening a new showroom in Manchester’s Spinningfields area, over 80 years since the company was originally founded in Manchester. It will join their two other showrooms – located in Marylebone, London and Hale, Greater Manchester – and…
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Nov- 2018 -28 NovemberVoice On The Highstreet
Voice on the High Street – Trustcott Jewellers
Tell us a little about Truscott Jewellers We’re a proudly traditional family-owned jewellers based in the heart of historic Gloucester. We’re located on an old cobbled street a stone’s throw from our celebrated cathedral and a few doors along from the house of Beatrix Potter’s Tailor of Gloucester. The business…
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27 NovemberFeatures
Focus On: Wedding and engagement rings
Whilst traditions remain strong – at least in the UK – more often than not the groom will choose the engagement ring for the bride. Stolen £20k gorilla returned to Karma Sanctum hotel But new research, conducted on behalf of Diamonds Factory by OnePoll and reported on JewelleryFocus.co.uk, showed that…
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