Opening
Openings—whether of new stores, concessions, pop-up spaces, or showrooms—serve as vital signals for growth, retail strategy, and market confidence within the UK jewellery trade. These events reflect investment trends, consumer demand, and brand expansion across high streets, shopping centres, luxury precincts, and online platforms. Jewellery Focus delivers immersive coverage of jewellery-related openings—highlighting launch strategies, merchandising layouts, location selection rationale, promotional activity, footfall outcomes, and post-launch performance. Our trade-centric reporting provides retailers, brand managers, developers, and suppliers with actionable insights into best practices for retail activation, partnership models, inventory planning, and measuring commercial success tied to new entry points in the sector.
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Feb- 2020 -11 FebruaryAnalysis
Yes, the trade barriers are coming
I think both Leavers and Remainers probably expected this in the long run – Michael Gove announced yesterday that businesses should “accept” that frictionless trade with the EU will be impossible whatever agreement is finally reached by the deadline of 31 December this year. This is the cost, he says,…
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10 FebruaryDesigners
Lark and Berry partners with Diamond Foundry
Luxury jewellery brand Lark and Berry has announced a partnership with diamond growing company, Diamond Foundry. The jewellers has now released a sustainable collection with the Silicon Valley-based, zero carbon footprint diamond company. A 64.5ct necklace from the collaborative collection was unveiled on singer, actor and activist Billy Porter at…
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Jan- 2020 -30 JanuaryDesigners
Sacred Gold to open West End store
Sacred Gold will be opening its first stand-alone store and studio in London’s West End, with a new site opening on Berwick Street, Soho this coming March. The two-floor, 700 sq ft store will showcase the brand’s premium jewellery collection on the upper floor, while a basement piercing studio will…
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13 JanuarySponsored
Make sure you don’t miss Vicenzaoro and T-Gold at the Vicenza Expo Centre
For Italian Exhibition Group (IEG), 2020 will open in Vicenza on 17th January under the banner of strategies and actions to promote the gold – jewellery industry. In agenda, two exhibition giants: VOJ – Vicenzaoro January The Jewellery Boutique Show and T-GOLD, the international show for machinery and the most…
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6 JanuaryEvents
Desire Fair comes to London
The Desire Fair has announced that its 2020 show will be held in Chelsea, London, between 28 February and 1 March. Some 90 individual jewellers and contemporary silversmiths, selected for their “superb and innovative craftsmanship”, will be showcasing their work at the jewellery and silversmithing event. Visitors will also be…
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2 JanuaryBusiness Bites
The internet need not be the scourge of every sector – just ask the CEO of Mountain Warehouse
The last decade in business was arguably characterised by one word: disruption. While the internet behemoths had already begun building serious fortunes in the 2000s, most would agree it was after 2010 that things really started motoring. Heralded as the great democratiser of information and services, the effects of a…
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Dec- 2019 -16 DecemberSponsored
The ‘elite’ master watchmakers and experts featuring at Vicenzaoro
Giulio Papi, Sandro Fratini and Stefano Mazzariol: three key players in the history of vintage watches who, from Saturday 18 to Monday 20 January will be appearing at the exclusive VO VINTAGE event, an exceptional format entirely devoted to the collecting sector with some of the most sought-after and unique…
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9 DecemberAppointments
The Incorporation of Goldsmiths appoints Ebba Goring as new director
Ebba Goring has been appointed as the new director of The Incorporation of Goldsmiths, one of Scotland’s most ancient institutions. Goring succeeded Mary Michel, who joined the business in 2002 and became director in 2012, and will continue to promote ethical silversmithing. In her previous role as the Incorporation’s programmes…
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9 DecemberEvents
Vicenzaoro January 2020: Where Jewellery begins
For the gold – jewellery industry, 2020 opens in Vicenza, Italy on 17th January with Vicenzaoro January – The Jewellery Boutique Show, the sector’s international hub of reference and the most exclusive and much-awaited stage for the market’s top brands to exhibit their latest creations. Organized by Italian Exhibition Group…
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Nov- 2019 -12 NovemberManufacturers
Links of London is proof the crazes come and go
Some years ago now, Jewellery Focus was alone among the British jewellery trade press in suggesting that the explosion of ‘affordable brands’ through the indies was, firstly, not going to last, secondly, a bad deal for jewellers, and therefore thirdly, not a cause for unalloyed celebration. Subsequently, many of these brands which…
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