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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Nov- 2017 -27 NovemberWatch Focus
Weird Ape completes first ever watch delivery by drone
Watch company Weird Ape has delivered the first watch by drone on 31 October in West Yorkshire. The watches were delivered 45 minutes after ordering and the customer was notified by text that they had a drone delivery coming. They then laid out a pre-printed landing marker in a safe…
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7 NovemberEvents
TH March are ‘turning it purple’ for pancreatic cancer awareness month
Staff at chartered insurance brokers TH March have joined Pancreatic Cancer Action charity’s ‘Turn it Purple’ campaign to raise funds and awareness for the cause. The team have been led by their work colleague Jean Keast who lost her brother Paul to the disease. November is the month when the…
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Aug- 2017 -18 AugustEconomy
Retail sales increase by 0.3%, says ONS
Retail sales increased by 0.3% in July 2017 compared with the previous month, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). This was due to strong sales in food stores at 1.5%; recovering from a fall of 1.1% in June 2017. The underlying pattern in the quantity bought, measured by…
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3 AugustEvents
TH March COO to take part in 650 mile Rolex Race
Andrew Alcock, chief operating officer at jewellery trade specialist insurance brokers TH March, will be setting sail later this week in the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race as part of a six-man crew on the Grand Soleil 50, Class 2 yacht, ‘Emma Claire’. The 605-nautical mile race starts on Sunday 6…
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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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