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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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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6 SeptemberRetailers
Lily Arkwright opens new Glasgow showroom
Ethical jeweller Lily Arkwright has announced the opening of its first Scottish showroom in Glasgow. Specialising in sustainable lab-grown stones, the company offers a lab grown, conflict-free and environmentally conscious diamonds. The new Glasgow showroom brings Lily Arkwright’s collection of lab-grown diamonds, moissanite, and ethically sourced coloured gemstones to a…
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3 SeptemberRetailers
Watches of Switzerland on track to deliver FY25 guidance
Watches of Switzerland has stated that trading for the first 18 weeks of the financial year has been in line with its expectations and that the group is on track to deliver its FY25 guidance as it makes progress against its Long Range Plan. Demand for its key luxury brands,…
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Aug- 2024 -28 AugustE-Commerce
Ebay UK expands Authenticity Guarantee to pearl jewellery
Ebay UK has expanded its Authenticity Guarantee service to pearl jewellery in collaboration with GIA, the Gemological Institute of America. The news comes as the marketplace saw a 30% increase in gemstone sales in the first six months of 2024. New and pre-loved pearl pieces sold for £500 and over…
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20 AugustRetailers
Missoma opens first Leeds store
Missoma has opened its first store outside of London in Redical’s Victoria Leeds. The British jewellery brand, which opened its latest store on Friday 16 August, is Missoma’s second-ever permanent store, following the opening of the Covent Garden store in November 2023. Located in Victoria Quarter’s County Arcade with a…
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8 AugustManufacturers
Royal Mint unveils new e-waste gold extracting factory
The Royal Mint has announced the launch of a new factory which will extract gold from electronic waste. Located in south Wales, the 3,700 sqm facility uses chemistry from Canadian clean tech company Excir to extract gold from printed circuit boards (PCBs). The factory has scaled the innovative technology from…
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Jul- 2024 -8 JulyRetailers
Malabar Gold and Diamonds continues UK expansion with new Leicester site
Malabar Gold and Diamonds, the sixth largest jewellery retailer globally with a retail presence of 350 showrooms across 13 countries, has just unveiled its sixth showroom in the UK in Leicester. Located on Belgrave Road’s Golden Mile, the new showroom spans over 2,000 sq. ft. and features a collection of…
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1 JulyRetailers
Laings appoints new operations director
Luxury family-run jewellers Laings has announced the appointment of a new board member in a move designed to further strengthen its overall operations. Kat Barron has been promoted to operations director at Laings and appointed to the board following an exceptional year of investment ensuing eight years of service at…
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Jun- 2024 -24 JuneDesigners
Tasaki unveils Ritz Paris collaboration
Tasaki has unveiled a new high jewellery collection in partnership with the Ritz Paris. Named “Nouvelle Ère”, this is the fourth collection to be released since the partnership was first launched in 2016. The collection comprises four chapters and 13 pieces in total, each taking inspiration from the hotel’s 125-year…
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