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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.

  • Sep- 2015 -
    28 September
    Watch FocusLaing Edinburgh to stock IWC Schaffhausen

    Laing Edinburgh to stock IWC Schaffhausen

    Independent jeweller Laing Edinburgh has announced that it set to stock luxury watch brand IWC Schaffhausen. The store announced that it has introduced the brand’s new 2015 Portugieser collection to its offering, which comes with a host of technological and design modifications as well as new features. The watch’s newly…

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  • Aug- 2015 -
    26 August
    RetailersFolli Follie and Links of London launch in Boutique Goldsmiths

    Folli Follie and Links of London launch in Boutique Goldsmiths

    Boutique Goldsmiths, a concept store for fashion jewellery and watches from jewellery chain Goldsmiths, has announced it is to stock Links of London and Folli Follie. The launch of the two brands today (Wednesday, August 26) comes on the first day of the opening of the retailer’s first stand alone…

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  • 19 August
    RetailersLaing Edinburgh celebrates 175th anniversary with £175,000 diamond necklace

    Laing Edinburgh celebrates 175th anniversary with £175,000 diamond necklace

    Independent jeweller Laing Edinburgh has marked its 175th anniversary with the creation of a one-off diamond necklace valued at £175,000.  The necklace, named ‘175’, features 447 brilliant-cut and pave diamonds set in platinum with a double diamond drop. The piece is described as “timelessly elegant with a contemporary twist”. Taking…

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  • 17 August
    Q&A Sessions
    INTERVIEW: Scott Thompson, Carat*

    INTERVIEW: Scott Thompson, Carat*

    Luxury fashion jewellery brand Carat* spent the latter half of 2014 expanding its footprint both in the UK and overseas. MICHAEL NORTHCOTT caught up with founder and CEO, Scott Thompson. Give us a 60-second roundup of what’s been going on in the last 12 months We’ve expanded our footprint in Hong…

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  • 11 August
    Watch FocusBackes & Strauss opens Mayfair boutique

    Backes & Strauss opens Mayfair boutique

    Backes & Strauss, which specialises in diamond watches, has announced the opening of a new boutique store in London’s Mayfair. The store, which is located on Grosvenor Street, will showcase timepieces from the brand’s Duchess, Renaissance, Royal Jester and Victoria collections. Alongside the timepieces, the store will also house historical…

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  • Jul- 2015 -
    22 July
    RetailersWatchfinder & Co to open flagship store in Leeds

    Watchfinder & Co to open flagship store in Leeds

    Watchfinder is to open a two-storey retail premises in Leeds, its third bricks and mortar boutique in the UK. The boutique will be situated in the historic Grade II* listed Victoria Quarter arcade and is due to open in late September 2015. With two stores in the South East already, Watchfinder’s…

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  • 21 July
    Crime£2,000 of jewellery stolen from Harrogate Home & Gift show

    £2,000 of jewellery stolen from Harrogate Home & Gift show

    Jewellery worth more than £2,000 has been stolen from the Harrogate Home & Gift Show.  Two stands reported the incident to the police, which is believed to have taken place at some point between the traders setting up on Saturday and the opening of the show on Sunday. The theft…

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  • 15 July
    DesignersVashi seeks funding for retail expansion

    Vashi seeks funding for retail expansion

    Diamond e-tailer Vashi has launched an £850,000 fundraise on equity crowdfunding platform VentureFounders to raise capital for a high street presence.  With the bulk of the firm’s sales predominantly made online, Vashi is seeking to raise £850,000 in this Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) eligible round, at a pre-money valuation of…

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  • 8 July
    Current AffairsSummer Budget 2015: Sunday trading could be extended

    Summer Budget 2015: Sunday trading could be extended

    Sunday trading hours could be extended to give businesses greater flexibility over their weekend opening hours, the Chancellor George Osborne has announced.  Speaking at the Summer Budget 2015, the first all-Conservative budget speech since 1996, Osborne said that elected mayors and councils could be given powers to relax local laws…

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  • 3 July
    RetailersLaing Edinburgh secures £1.3m relocation

    Laing Edinburgh secures £1.3m relocation

    Independent jeweller Laing Edinburgh is set for a £1.3m relocation to Edinburgh’s exclusive George Street – fulfilling a lifelong dream for chairman Michael Laing.  The jewellers, which is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year, has agreed terms to move into 72 George Street, formerly occupied by Barclays Bank, and is…

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