Digital Transformation
This coverage examines digital transformation across the UK jewellery industry, focusing on how technology is reshaping retail, manufacturing, and customer engagement. Jewellery Focus reports on e-commerce innovation, digital marketing, supply chain management, and the adoption of tools such as AI, 3D design, and virtual try-on technology. Coverage also explores how jewellers, suppliers, and manufacturers are leveraging data and automation to enhance efficiency and competitiveness. The content provides trade professionals with insights into how digital evolution is redefining business operations within the jewellery sector.
-
Dec- 2025 -4 DecemberManufacturers
Tracr chief executive to step down in February 2026
De Beers has announced that Wesley Tucker will step down as chief executive of Tracr and leave the business at the end of February 2026. Tucker joined De Beers Group in 2021 as head of digital transformation before becoming chief executive of Tracr, the group’s blockchain-based diamond traceability platform. During…
Read More » -
Nov- 2025 -4 NovemberTrade Organisations
Goldsmiths’ Company appoints four new members to its Court of Assistants
The Goldsmiths’ Company has appointed four new members to its Court of Assistants, the organisation’s non-executive board equivalent. Silversmith Brett Payne, lawyer and university registrar Rachel Sandby-Thomas, former Deloitte partner Sir William Touche and technologist Doug Twining have joined the 25-member Court, following an open call for applications and a…
Read More » -
Aug- 2024 -8 AugustAppointments
Bonhams appoints Chabi Nouri as global CEO
Bonhams has appointed Chabi Nouri as global CEO of the international auction house. Nouri, who will be based in Bonhams’ headquarters in New Bond Street, London, will take up the position in October 2024 at the 14-saleroom auction house. Swiss-born Nouri has deep knowledge and experience in international luxury and…
Read More » -
Feb- 2024 -23 FebruaryRetailers
Annoushka appoints new chief executive
British fine jewellery brand Annoushka has appointed Zia Zareem-Slade, formerly chief creative officer of Hauser and Wirth, as its new CEO starting February 2024. The news comes after Tim Hort, managing director who has worked with Annoushka and John Ayton, chairman, for over 25 years, will step down from his…
Read More » -
Jul- 2023 -26 JulyNews
RJC officially launches first ESG toolkit
Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) has officially launched its first ever ESG toolkit to members after it was exclusively launched on 23 June 2023 at Harvard University. The “State of the Art Jewellery” summit hosted by RJC, the Gemmological Institute of America (GIA) and the Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard…
Read More » -
Mar- 2023 -13 MarchAppointments
Opsydia appoints new sales and marketing director
Diamond and gemstone security specialist, Opsydia, has appointed Jimmy Gove to the position of sales and marketing director, effective immediately. Opsydia is recognised for its technology that places unique identifiers on and beneath the surface of gemstones to secure their identity. Gove brings to Opsydia more than a decade of…
Read More » -
Jan- 2021 -11 JanuaryE-Commerce
Gembridge to protect customers with launch of new escrow account
Gembridge has announced it has opened a U.S. dollar-based escrow account with a Singaporean banking group to provide safe transactions for global buyers and sellers. Gembridge is a regulated marketplace for certified gemstones, pearls and jewellery for a verified community of buyers, sellers and consignees. The company said it will…
Read More » -
Jul- 2020 -6 JulyFeatures
Three ways that Covid-19 will change retail forever
In the midst of a global pandemic the UK high street is suffering more than ever before with many ailing big names, from fashion retailer French Connection warning it will run out of cash within the next few months unless it secures a cash injection, to the ongoing struggles of…
Read More » -
Jan- 2020 -9 JanuaryAnalysis
Who would have thought skinny jeans could be anyone’s undoing?
It’s not often that the business pages give you a good belly laugh. But today we have the spectacle of Marks & Spencer blaming its poor Christmas trading results partly on an oversupply of skinny jeans for men. Apparently customer surveys revealed that the high street bellwether’s ranges were “too…
Read More » -
Jul- 2018 -3 JulyFeatures
Blockchain – The technology pulling the jewellery industry into the future
“In two to five years we won’t be talking about Blockchain, it will just be one of those things that is a given,” says Leanne Kemp. She is CEO of Everledger, a global startup that uses the best of emerging technology including Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Machine Vision to assist…
Read More »
- 1
- 2