E-Commerce
E-commerce has become a vital channel for the UK jewellery trade, transforming how jewellers, designers, and suppliers reach customers and grow their businesses. From website optimisation and digital marketing to logistics and customer experience, the online marketplace presents both opportunities and challenges. Jewellery Focus provides expert coverage on e-commerce trends, technology innovations, consumer behaviour insights, and strategies to help jewellery professionals succeed in an increasingly digital retail landscape.
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May- 2025 -21 MayRetailers
Bohomoon makes two senior appointments
British jewellery brand Bohomoon has announced the appointments of Annie Kacperek and Wesley Strange as its new chief marketing officer and head of Ecommerce respectively. Kacperek is an “award-winning” marketeer, who has previously been “instrumental” in the growth of multiple fast paced e-commerce brands. She served as a market executive…
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Sep- 2024 -13 SeptemberRetailers
Lily Gabriella partners with Farfetch
London-based jewellery designer Lily Gabriella has entered an e-commerce partnership with luxury online retailer Farfetch, to bring an edit of its fine jewellery collections to the etailers’ global audience in over 190 countries. The partnership will see a selection of Lily Gabriella’s rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces and pendants from the…
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Apr- 2024 -24 AprilDesigners
Giovanni Raspini to launch in China
Giovanni Raspini has announced that it is set to launch in China on Tmall, Alibaba Group’s e-commerce platform. This new partnership will allow Goivanni Raspini to bring its products directly to consumers in China. The Tmall platform will host some of the brand’s most popular collections, allowing the brand to…
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8 AprilRetailers
Hatton Jewellers unveils new flagship Chelmsford store
English luxury jewellery brand Hatton Jewellers has opened a new flagship store in the centre of Chelmsford. Starting as a small, family-run workshop in 1977, Hatton Jewellers first opened in the jewellery district of Hatton Gardens. The jewellery brand manufactures and sells men’s and women’s fine jewellery, including heavy gold…
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Mar- 2024 -22 MarchAppointments
Pandora appoints new GM for British Isles and new CCO
Pandora has announced the appointment of Sonia Lopez Delgado as new general manager of British Isles (BRIS) from 1 July, the company’s second largest cluster. She currently holds the position as general manager of the Northern Europe cluster (NOEU). She joined Pandora in 2018 and has extensive experience within sales,…
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Feb- 2024 -9 FebruaryRetailers
Diamonds Factory opens its first Glasgow store
UK-based jewellery brand Diamonds Factory has launched its first Glasgow store. The store, which officially opened on 1 December 2023, is located at 52 Argyll Arcade, Glasgow, G2 8BA and is open 10am-5pm on weekdays and Saturdays and 11:30am-5pm on Sundays. Diamonds Factory said that the new store joins its…
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Jan- 2024 -16 JanuaryRetailers
Beaverbrooks’ luxury brand Loupe opens second store
Beaverbrooks’ fine jewellery and watch brand Loupe has launched its second boutique in Croydon London, which opened on Friday 12 January 2024. Loupe is a thoughtfully curated concept by Beaverbrooks, the 105-year-old family-owned jewellers with 87 stores nationwide. A project over five years in the making, with a total investment…
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2 JanuaryRetailers
Laings turnover hits £63m amid retail and workshop investment
Laings’ has a reported a 5% increase in turnover to £63.3m for the year ended 31 May 2023. Furthermore, the retailer posted a profit before tax of £3.7m for the period which it stated will be reinvested back into the business. The positive financials come following a programme of investment…
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Dec- 2023 -4 DecemberRetailers
Jessica Flinn launches new Christmas Chocolate collection
Sheffield-based fine jewellery brand Jessica Flinn has launched its new Christmas Chocolate collection inspired by Yorkshire chocolate company Quality Street. Katie Hurst, a Jessica Flinn team member, once lived on a street in Sheffield where residents annually decorate their houses to resemble Quality Street chocolates for charity during Christmas. Quality…
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Nov- 2023 -7 NovemberRetailers
Hannah Martin London launches new A Vanitas collection
Eponymous jewellery brand founder Hannah Martin has launched her new A Vanitas collection in collaboration with Guy Berryman, founder of Applied Art Forms. A Vanitas is a collection of unisex, “heirloom-quality” jewellery inspired by the 17th-Century Dutch tradition of Vanitas paintings that “evoked the fleeting nature of life”. In a…
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