Christmas
Christmas is the most crucial trading period for the UK jewellery industry, driving significant sales across retail, wholesale, and e-commerce. For jewellers, manufacturers, and suppliers, understanding seasonal trends, consumer behaviour, and effective marketing strategies is essential to maximising opportunities during the festive period. Jewellery Focus provides extensive coverage on Christmas trading, including sales performance analysis, product trends, promotional campaigns, and insights into supply chain readiness. Our reporting helps trade professionals prepare for and capitalise on the busiest season of the year.
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Jan- 2016 -29 JanuaryEconomy
Unseasonable weather damages independent retail sales in Q4
A “dramatic reversal of fortunes” in the last three months of 2015 has brought an end to an 18 month run of turnover growth for independent retailers. The British Independent Retailers Association’s (BIRA) Sales Monitor for the fourth quarter of 2015 found unseasonably warm and wet weather, falling footfall, falling…
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26 JanuaryDesigners
Hot Diamonds makes two key appointments to drive retail growth
Jewellery brand Hot Diamonds has announced the promotion of two employees in an effort to drive retail growth in its independent channel. Andrew Mills has been promoted from brand manager to head of independent sales, while Makala McAuley has been promoted from customer services to brand ambassador administrator. Mills has…
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25 JanuaryE-Commerce
Online sales ‘nearly double’ for jewellery on ‘Cyber Weekend’
Online sales of jewellery over Cyber Weekend – the weekend following Black Friday – nearly doubled, according to the Edinburgh Assay Office. Figures from the office’s Hallmarking and Fulfillment Service, which provides online jewellery retailers with integrated hallmarking and direct final mile delivery to consumers, increased “significantly” in 2015 compared…
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20 JanuaryDesigners
Tiffany & Co sales rise in the UK despite disappointing festive period
Tiffany & Co has reported an increase in sales in the UK despite a Christmas holiday period many found disappointing. For the two month period ending 31 December, Tiffany said on a constant exchange rate basis worldwide net sales declined by 3%, while same-store sales declined by 5%. Declines in…
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18 JanuaryCurrent Affairs
2015 full-year hallmarking edges upwards
The total number of hallmarked items fell by 1% in December suggesting a flat Christmas, but the annual figures for full-year 2015 edged up by 1% compared with the previous year. Data from all four assay offices in the UK – compiled by the Birmingham Assay Office – showed the…
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18 JanuaryEconomy
Footfall across the UK down 2.2% in December
Footfall in December was down 2.2% on the same time last year as consumers turned to e-commerce for their Christmas shopping. That’s according to the latest British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor, which found the 2.2% decline was marginally lower than the 2.1% decline in November,…
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12 JanuaryEconomy
UK retail sales remain subdued as e-commerce sales surge
The growth of retail sales continued to slow down in December as e-commerce sales jumped compared with the same month last year. That’s according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, which found like-for-like retail sales in the UK rose by just 0.1% in December compared…
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12 JanuaryCurrent Affairs
Camden Council to develop new jewellery workshops
Camden Council has announced its support of jewellery businesses in Hatton Garden through the development of new “affordable” work spaces. Camden, which said it hopes to help up-and-coming businesses who want to work in the area, has agreed to provide funding to business space operator Centa Business Services to refurbish…
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8 JanuaryRetailers
EXCLUSIVE: Winsor Bishop on track for ‘record’ sales growth
Norwich-based independent jeweller Winsor Bishop is on target to achieve the highest sales growth in its 185-year history, Jewellery Focus can reveal. In the financial year to date (from 1 April to 31 December), the jeweller – which was victim of an armed robbery earlier this year – reported a…
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7 JanuaryRetailers
Signet Jewelers reports Christmas sales growth of 5%
Jewellery retail giant Signet Jewelers has reported a 5% increase in total sales over the Christmas period when compared with the previous year. The US-based group, which is the parent company of UK retail brands H Samuel and Ernest Jones, also reported a growth in same-store sales of 4.9% during…
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