Pandemic
The pandemic has had a lasting impact on the UK jewellery trade, reshaping consumer habits, supply chains, and retail strategies. For jewellers, manufacturers, and suppliers, understanding these changes is essential to adapting and building resilience. Jewellery Focus provides in-depth coverage of the pandemic’s effects on the industry, including market analysis, business recovery strategies, e-commerce growth, and insights into shifting demand patterns. Our reporting helps trade professionals navigate the ongoing challenges and opportunities in a post-pandemic landscape.
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May- 2020 -1 MayBusiness Bites
Are we beginning to re-open anyway?
The PM says he will soon announce the reopening plan after weeks of compulsory lockdown for the UKs public and its businesses. Boris Johnson is under pressure to come up with the blueprint for restarting the economy as the list of suffering firms grows larger and more and more redundancies…
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Apr- 2020 -30 AprilCoronavirus
Covid-19: 70% of shopworkers are experiencing anxiety, says Udsaw
Shopworkers trade union Usdaw has released statistics revealing 70% of shop workers are experiencing anxiety and have raised concerns with their employers amid the Covid-19 crisis. The statistics revealed that 39% of the 7,357 members surveyed, primarily essential workers in shops, distribution warehouses, road transport or work as delivery drivers…
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30 AprilBusiness Bites
Coronavirus treatment hopes push stock markets up, and ‘Spoons to reopen in June
Investors are chirpy this morning amid hopes of a new coronavirus treatment that has been described as promising by the USA’s top infectious disease official, Dr Anthony Fauci. The experimental drug, called remdesivir, is produced by an American biopharmaceutical firm called Gilead Sciences, and is reckoned by US regulators to…
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29 AprilCoronavirus
De Beers Group donates $200,000 to women’s support organisations
De Beers Group revealed it has made a $200,000 (£160,000) donation to women’s shelters and support organisations across its four producer partner countries. The donations have been made to the organisations across Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa in response to an increase in gender-based violence resulting from the ongoing…
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28 AprilAdvice
How to clean your jewellery at home
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s now more important than ever to clean your jewellery and make sure that it’s free from germs and debris. Although jewellery stores are not currently open in line with BRC advice, it’s easy enough for you to clean your own jewellery at…
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28 AprilCoronavirus
IJL extends deadline for KickStart applications
The IJL has announced that its deadline for online applications for the IJL KickStart mentorship competition has now been extended to 1 June in light of the ongoing pandemic. Andy Ventris, IJL show director, said: “Extending the deadline is to ensure that we are giving all designers who wish to…
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28 AprilCoronavirus
UK economy not expected to recover until 2023, study suggests
The UK’s economy is not expected to return to normal until 2023 due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report issued by economic forecasting group EY Item Club. The group has warned that it is likely to take three years for the UK economy to return to the…
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28 AprilBusiness Bites
Job support to be wound down, M&S dividend suspended, ventilator production slows, property market halts
Chancellor Rishi Sunack says he will wean the economy off his support schemes in a “gradual” wind-down, to help prevent soaring unemployment on ‘expiration day’. His announcement, made to MPs, came in response to concerns that a definite cut-off date would produce an explosion in redundancies and layoffs. Currently, the…
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27 AprilCoronavirus
Chancellor announces 100% guarantee on small business loans
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced the launch of a new ‘bounce back’ emergency loan scheme for small businesses, which will offer 100% guarantees on emergency loans. Today (27 April) Sunak told the House of Commons that the scheme would begin next week, offering SMEs loans of up to £50,000. The…
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27 AprilCoronavirus
Simone Jewels to debut in HOL’s second virtual trunk show
Celebrated luxury jewellery brands, Yeprem , Maya, Terzihan and Simone Jewels have been announced to make their debut in the House of Luxury’s (HOL) second virtual trunk show going live on today (27 April). Inside a three-dimensional, HD virtual environment, shoppers will be able to explore fine diamond jewellery by…
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