Pandora
Pandora is one of the world’s largest jewellery brands and a major player in the UK market, known for its charm bracelets, accessible luxury positioning, and innovative marketing strategies. Its scale and influence make Pandora a key focus for jewellery retailers, wholesalers, and suppliers monitoring trends in consumer demand, store rollouts, and sustainability initiatives. Jewellery Focus provides comprehensive coverage of Pandora’s UK operations, including product launches, financial updates, leadership changes, and insights into how the brand’s activities shape opportunities and challenges across the trade.
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May- 2015 -19 MayBrand Profiles
BRAND PROFILE: Chrysalis Jewellery
Having just returned from a successful outing to Baselworld with a string of new accounts, Chrysalis is a jewellery brand that has gained serious traction since its inception back in 2007. MICHAEL NORTHCOTT caught up with director Andy Maine. Consumers love a back story. Everything from a restaurant with a…
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Oct- 2014 -29 OctoberRetailers
Argento offers £15,000 reward for stolen jewellery
Argento owner Peter Boyle is offering a £15,000 reward for anyone who can produce relevant information leading to the recovery of £80,000 worth of stolen Christmas stock. The theft happened overnight between 10pm Saturday October 25 and 7:45am on Sunday October 26, when over £80,000 worth of Christmas Pandora stock…
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Sep- 2014 -8 SeptemberInternational
Q&A with Mads Ziegler, STORY
Can you give us some background on the company? I started the company in 2003 and worked as a sales manager in Denmark. The original brand, along with my business partner, was called Kranz & Ziegler. My business partner left the company after three years because of poor health. By…
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8 SeptemberEvents
Endless Jewelry signs 40 new UK accounts at IJL
Rapidly-growing brand Endless Jewelry has enjoyed a successful show at this year’s International Jewellery London, signing 40 new accounts. This is the first year the brand, owned by former Pandora boss Jesper Nielsen, has exhibited at the show. New stockists include Flitwick Jewellers, Inspired by Brufords, John Moore Jewellers Cork, Bonds…
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Aug- 2014 -19 AugustEditor's Blog
Endless Jewelry’s new investors are a magic bullet…if it were needed
They always say ‘growing too fast’ can be the ruin of a business, and the former Pandora-man, Danish Jesper Nielsen, has obviously heard this too, as it has been announced that Endless Jewelry has raised significant investment capital by selling 23% of the business to some external investors. Realistically, it is…
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15 AugustRetailers
Drakes Group announces plans for expansion
Drakes Group has announced plans to expand its Plymouth store this year, taking over four units in the Drake Circus Shopping Centre. The family-run business has announced the opening of its “all new Drakes Store” on the first floor of the shopping centre, located alongside Next. The shop will occupy…
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13 AugustDesigners
Endless Jewelry sells 23% stake to raise investment capital
Jewellery brand Endless has received financial backing from a group of investors, including co-founder and CEO of Saxo Bank, Lars Seier Christensen. The investors will own 23.55% of the business. Endless was founded in 2013 by Jesper Nielsen, a Danish entrepreneur and former CEO of KasiGroup, a reseller of Pandora…
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Jul- 2014 -8 JulyCurrent Affairs
London borough of Southwark wins Touchstone Award 2014
The British Hallmark Council and the four Assay Offices of the UK have announced the London borough of Southwark is the winner of the Touchstone Award 2014. In its third annual presentation, the Touchstone Award recognises innovative initiatives undertaken in relation to hallmarking legislation. Southwark’s initiative was prompted by a…
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Apr- 2014 -14 AprilManufacturers
INTERVIEW: Jesper Nielsen of Endless Jewellery
[blockquote style=”2″]The founder and former CEO of Pandora gives Michael Northcott a candid interview on his career there, and why he is confident that his new venture, Endless Jewellery, will be bigger and better.[/blockquote] Can you give us a potted history of your career? I started in the jewellery industry…
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Mar- 2014 -10 MarchManufacturers
Pandora chairman Bottoli to stand down
Pandora has announced that its chairman, Marcello Bottoli, will stand down from the role as soon as a successor is found, due to “other professional commitments”. Bottoli said: “It has been a great honour to be a board member, interim CEO, and chairman of Pandora, and part of creating the…
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