Birmingham
Birmingham has a rich heritage as a centre for jewellery manufacturing and trade, with its historic Jewellery Quarter still home to hundreds of workshops and businesses. For UK jewellers, wholesalers, and suppliers, the city remains a vital hub for production, design, and distribution. Jewellery Focus covers Birmingham’s role in the industry, from updates on local businesses and manufacturing trends to insights into policy developments and events shaping the trade. Our reporting helps professionals understand the city’s continuing influence on the UK jewellery sector.
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Jan- 2013 -28 JanuaryEvents
Jewellery Focus editor among attendees at annual BAO Hallmarking Review
Many of the UK jewellery industry’s luminaries, including Jewellery Focus editor Louise Hoffman, braved the inclement weather to attend the Birmingham Assay Office Annual Hallmarking Review.
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17 JanuaryDesigners
Designs ‘wow’ judges in Weston Beamor student awards
Three female students have been shortlisted in the annual design competition staged by Birmingham-based casting house and rapid prototyping company, Weston Beamor.
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16 JanuaryEvents
White Pine Trading announces diamond sales events schedule
White Pine Trading LLC has announced it is to host four global diamond sales events during the first quarter of 2013.
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11 JanuaryEconomy
Lightweight and fashion jewellery affecting hallmarking figures, says assay master
Shoppers are increasingly looking to lightweight silver articles and fashion jewellery, which do not need hallmarking, according to the chief executive of the Birmingham Assay Office.
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9 JanuaryTrade Organisations
Assay Office lab sponsors fashion section of Gift of the Year Awards
The Birmingham Assay Office laboratory has announced that it is to sponsor the ‘Fashion Jewellery and Accessories’ category at this year’s Gift of the Year Awards.
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4 JanuaryCelebrities
Queen wears BJA brooch at Sandringham
The UK jewellery industry received a much-needed boost on Christmas day, as Her Majesty the Queen wore the winning design from the British Jewellers’ Association’s (BJA) Jubilee brooch competition.
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2 JanuaryTrade Organisations
BJA announces winners of 2013 Jewellery Show Award
Silver jewellery company Lucy Q and fashion jewellery supplier Pautinka have been named as the joint winners of the British Jewellers’ Association’s (BJA) annual design competition.
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Dec- 2012 -21 DecemberTrade Organisations
BJA launches training courses for West Midlands jewellery businesses
The British Jewellers’ Association (BJA) has announced that it is once again holding free business development training courses during January 2013, specifically aimed at West-Midlands-based jewellery companies.
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19 DecemberProduct Launches
Birmingham Assay Office “privileged” to be part of brooch collaboration
Marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year, the Birmingham Assay Office joined with members of the British Jewellers’ Association (BJA) to create a spectacular platinum, gold and diamond brooch, which was given to Her Majesty on 5 December.
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11 DecemberTrade Organisations
Birmingham Assay Office announced as BJA’s ‘Member of the Year’
During the British Jewellery Association’s (BJA) recent 125th Anniversary Awards, the Birmingham Assay Office was announced as the organisation’s ‘Member of the Year’.
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