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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Nov- 2024 -28 NovemberRetailers
Missoma opens largest store to date on Carnaby Street
Missoma has opened its largest store to date on London’s Carnaby Street. The new 1,000 sq ft, split-level store will deliver the brand’s 100% certified recycled gold and silver products, spotlighting Missoma’s collaborations with the likes of Lucy Williams, Harris Reed, and Savi. The new store will be fitted out…
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20 NovemberRetailers
Goldsmiths relocates centre:mk showroom
Goldsmiths has announced the relocation, upsizing and opening of its new showroom in centre:mk, Milton Keynes. The new showroom features dedicated branded areas for watchmakers including TUDOR, Breitling, TAG Heuer, and Longines. Furthermore FOPE and Roberto Coin are two of the jewellery partners that feature prominently in the showroom. Craig…
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19 NovemberRetailers
Fabergé opens new London St James’s boutique
Fabergé has announced the opening of its new boutique in London’s St James’s, at 14 Piccadilly Arcade. The new retail space offers clients an opportunity to view its core jewellery and watch collections, as well as selected high jewellery and egg objets. The first Fabergé London boutique opened in 1906…
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12 NovemberRetailers
Beaverbrooks opens first Tudor watch boutique in Kent
Family-owned national diamond, jewellery and watch retailer, Beaverbrooks, has partnered with luxury Swiss watch brand Tudor to open the only Tudor boutique in Kent’s Bluewater Shopping Centre. The brand-new Tudor watch boutique, which adjoins the existing Beaverbrooks store, officially opened its doors on Friday 8 November. It is the retailer’s…
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5 NovemberRetailers
Baker Brothers opens new boutique on St Peter’s Street
Bedford-based 185 year old jewellery brand Baker Brothers has announced the opening of its new boutique at 21 St Peter’s Street, just a few doors down from its original location. The new two-floor boutique features an expansive selection of “exquisite” jewellery, “luxury” watches, and “unique” accessories. According to Baker Brother,…
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4 NovemberRetailers
Monica Vinader unveils new Edinburgh boutique
Demi-fine jewellery brand Monica Vinader is set to open its first Scottish boutique, a flagship store in Edinburgh. This location marks the brand’s 25th directly operated store and concession across the UK, US, Hong Kong and Singapore. The Edinburgh boutique, located on George Street, will welcome its first customers on…
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Oct- 2024 -25 OctoberRetailers
Atelier VM to open first UK flagship store
Atelier VM has announced that it is set to open its first UK flagship store in London’s Burlington Arcade. The new store covers a total area of 401 sq ft, and will be located at House 5 of the Burlington Arcade hall. The brand launched in the UK in 2018…
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22 OctoberRetailers
Astella opens new boutique in Birmingham
Astella has announced the opening of its second boutique store in Birmingham’s renowned Jewellery Quarter. The new site is located in the historic former Barclays Bank building on Frederick Street. This building has been restored following a £100,000 refurbishment to create a sophisticated, modern space. Astella’s founder and director, Sunny…
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Sep- 2024 -30 SeptemberRetailers
Jamieson and Carry unveils new showroom
Jamieson and Carry has announced the opening of its new showroom on Union Street in Aberdeen. The new store, which has more than doubled in size, includes a brand-new Rolex showroom, an expanded new Patek Philippe area and the first TudorWatch ‘shop in shop’ in Aberdeen It also comes with…
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25 SeptemberRetailers
Beaverbrooks sees profits fall despite ‘record’ turnover
Family-owned diamond, jewellery and watch retailer Beaverbrooks has announced record turnover of £228.6m from £225m despite seeing a drop in operating profits to £10.5m from £25.7m for the period between March 2023 to February 2024. The group attributed the £3m increase in turnover to growing market share in a difficult…
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