Insurance
Insurance is a critical consideration for the UK jewellery trade, covering everything from stock and premises protection to customer policies for high-value purchases. For retailers, manufacturers, and wholesalers, navigating insurance options and understanding risk management is essential to safeguard business operations and maintain consumer trust.
Jewellery Focus delivers comprehensive coverage on insurance matters affecting the industry, including regulatory updates, market trends in jewellery-specific policies, and insights from providers serving the trade. We also report on best practices and innovations helping businesses mitigate risk in a rapidly evolving market.
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Jul- 2017 -11 JulyEvents
TH March ‘Diamond Girls’ beat charity walk target
Some 17 women from jewellery trade specialist insurance brokers, TH March, have smashed their £1,000 charity walk target. They marched at midnight last week to help raise funds for St Luke’s Hospice, Plymouth. Their total currently stands at £1,800 and is expected to rise. They were joined by thousands of other…
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Jun- 2017 -29 JuneEvents
TH March ‘diamond girls’ go on charity Midnight March
Some 17 women from jewellery trade specialist insurance brokers, TH March, will be taking part in a midnight march for charity. The march will take place this Saturday (1 July) to help raise funds for St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth. The ladies have been preparing with healthy lunches, regular walks…
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13 JuneTrade Organisations
TH March warns of Pensions Regulator inspections
Jewellery insurance company has warned businesses to be aware of possible inspections by the pensions regulator. Following a number of inspections in and around Manchester over the past few days, TH March is urging companies to make sure they comply with the Workplace Auto-Enrolment Scheme. Steve Clements, chartered financial planner…
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Mar- 2017 -30 MarchTrade Organisations
T H March and National Association of Jewellers form new club
Jewellery trade insurance firm T H March and the National Association of Jewellers (NAJ) have teamed up to launch a brand new ‘club’. In a continuation of the two companies 111 year relationship, the two establishments unveiled another club which it hopes will offer its members a wide range of…
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21 MarchCrime
Crime gang jailed over £3m jewellery raids
Members of a Romanian crime gang have been jailed for a series of burglaries on jewellers, in which some £3.1m worth of jewellery was stolen. The six men have been jailed for a total of 47 years for conspiring to commit burglaries at jewellers across nine different counties in the…
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8 MarchEconomy
Budget 2017: Government unveils £300m business rate relief fund
The government has helped soften the blow of April’s business rate revaluation with a £300m relief fund for local councils. The announcement was made by chancellor Philip Hammond at today’s Spring Budget, in which he said business rates raise £25bn each year – all of which, by 2020, will be…
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Feb- 2017 -1 FebruaryCurrent Affairs
TH March awarded ‘exceptional three-star’ rating for customer service
Chartered insurance broker TH March has been awarded an “exceptional three-star” rating by independent customer service assessor, Investor in Customers (IIC). IIC, which conducts research and investigates how well companies treat customers and staff, awarded the rating after talking to customers and staff of TH March, which is due to…
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Oct- 2016 -6 OctoberQ&A Sessions
Company Q&A: High-value transportation
We sit down with Security Drivers International to find out more about its secure high-value transportation service [divider style=”solid” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Tell us about the company and how it was set up Security Drivers International, founded in 1995, is a British owned and managed family business. The original founder, John…
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Jul- 2016 -11 JulyCrime
Thieves steal £14,000 from Suffolk pawnbrokers after chiselling through wall
Thieves have made off with jewellery worth around £14,500 from a Suffolk jewellers after reportedly chiselling through a brick wall. Around two or three thieves broke into an area behind a neighbouring pet shop on Bevan Street in Lowestoft, before spending an hour chiselling through a solid brick wall to…
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May- 2016 -19 MayRetailers
Small firms lose four days a month to administration
Over half of smaller business owners (55%) say their company growth is being held back by the amount of time they have to dedicate to administration, new research has found. The survey from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) – answered by 1,685 business owners – found the average small…
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