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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Jun- 2015 -29 JuneEvents
Endless launches in 23rd market: Asia
Composable jewellery brand Endless Jewelry has hosted a colourful launch into Asia – its 23rd market worldwide – just two years since launching. In front of 300 VIP guests, celebrities, and more than 100 media representatives from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, Endless Jewelry hosted the grand opening of…
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25 JuneRetailers
Watches of Switzerland opens Canary Wharf store
Watches of Switzerland has announced the opening of a new store in London’s financial district, Canary Wharf. The retailer’s new 976 sq ft boutique, located at 22 Canada Place, will offer a mix of luxury watch brands including Audemars Piguet, Blancpain, Bell & Ross, Parmigiani, Baume & Mercier, Bremont, Hublot…
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19 JuneCelebrities
David Hasselhoff launches new Tresor shop in Hatton Garden
Tresor Paris has opened a dedicated retail premises on Hatton Garden, London’s famous jewellery quarter. Former Baywatch star and Hollywood stalwart David Hasselhoff officially opened the new store, in the company of a coterie of other celebrity faces including Hayley Roberts, Lady Victoria Hervey, Made in Chelsea star Tiff Watts, Big…
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16 JuneInternational
Endless opens first own-brand store
Endless Jewelry has revealed its first fully own-brand retail premises with a store opening event in Estonia, its 23rd market. The opening of the ‘Monobrand Store’ was attended by a range of national media, who had the chance to quiz the firm’s founder founder, Jesper Nielsen. Nielsen said: “We have been active less…
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15 JuneBrand Profiles
Q&A: Connoisseurs jewellery cleaning products
Connoisseurs, the jewellery cleaning product range, is soon to take the UK jewellery industry by storm thanks to the hard work by the UK team led by Philip Goodman. We caught up with him to find out about the brand’s progress. Can you give us a brief summary of the…
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15 JuneRetailers
Mococo relocates and expands its Chester store
Jewellery retailer Mococo has relocated its Chester store and more than doubled its size in bid to improve its presence in the city. The store has been relocated from the Grosvenor Shopping Centre on St Michael’s Row to the corner of Foregate Street, a “more prominent location in the city…
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May- 2015 -21 MayDesigners
Endless doubles manufacturing capacity to meet global demand
Fast growing composable jewellery brand Endless Jewelry has announced plans to upscale its production in an order to meet an increase in global demand. The firm said that it will make improvements to its production chain, and upgrade and double its manufacturing capacity for its bracelet and charm-concept jewellery.…
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Apr- 2015 -20 AprilWatch Focus
John Travolta signs for Breitling campaign
Global star and seasoned pilot and aviation aficionado, John Travolta, has signed with Swiss watch brand Breitling for their 2015 advertising campaign. Breitling depicts him alongside another flying legend, the North American X-15 aircraft, loaned by the Air Force Flight Test Museum from its base at Edwards, California. During the 1960s,…
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9 AprilEvents
Drakes Jewellers shortlisted for business award
Drakes Jewellers in Plymouth has been shortlisted for the Medium-Sized Business of the Year Award in the 2015 Herald Business Awards. Drakes, which was last year awarded the Business of the Year award at Plymouth’s City and Waterfront Awards 2014, was added to the shortlist by an experienced judging panel.…
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8 AprilEconomy
Shop vacancy rates fall back to 2010 levels
Shop vacancy rates in Britain have fallen back to levels not seen since 2010, according to new figures from the Local Data Company (LDC). Shop vacancy rates fell to 13% in March from 13.1% in February, while the overall retail and leisure vacancy rate also dropped in March to 11.6%,…
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