Repairs
Repairs are a vital service within the UK jewellery trade, helping retailers, designers, and manufacturers maintain customer relationships, extend product lifecycles, and generate additional revenue streams. From traditional craftsmanship to modern repair technologies, offering high-quality repairs reinforces trust and brand loyalty. Jewellery Focus provides insights on repair trends, service innovations, and business strategies, supporting trade professionals in optimising this key aspect of their operations.
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May- 2019 -21 MayAdvice
The repair department is in the back
How many times have I heard that in jewellery stores? Too many times. Do jewellers really know how much in lost sales this costs them? Of course not, otherwise they would stop saying that. Some jewellers pass this off by saying: “Oh Betty knows when there is a potential for…
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Apr- 2019 -16 AprilBusinesses For Sale
Businesses for sale: Pattni Jewellers – leasehold £20,000
Location Hatton House, 90 Queensway, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK2 2RU The store itself has been here over 30 years and enjoys a superb location in a busy town centre retail parade in the heart of Bletchley, a bustling suburb of Milton Keynes. The heart of Bletchley is the shopping area…
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Mar- 2019 -27 MarchFeatures
RECRUITMENT: Geo. A. Payne & Son Ltd
Geo. A. Payne & Son Ltd is an independent family owned retail jewellers and pawnbrokers in Bosombe, Bournemouth specialising in both new and quality pre-owned jewellery and silverware. We offer a high quality pawnbroking service, in house valuations, repairs and a bespoke design service. We are seeking an experienced store…
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Jan- 2019 -23 JanuaryFeatures
Selling advice: Adding on
This month’s section on jewellery services such as engraving, resizing, and polishing is very timely before the holidays because it will give you jewellers a big opportunity to increase your sales. I know what some of you will say: “We’re too busy then.” Perhaps you are if you don’t know…
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17 JanuaryVoice On The Highstreet
Voice on the High Street: Zelley Jewellery
Name: Alistair Zelley, Zelley Jewellers Website: www.zelleyjewellers.co.uk Year established: 1886 Number of staff: 7 Location: Norwich How was Zelley Jewellers founded? My great grandfather Fredrick John Zelley started out as a sole trader during the 1890s in Bishop’s Stortford and registered the first FJ Zelley Jewellers in 1910. My grandfather…
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9 JanuaryVoice On The Highstreet
Voice on the High Street – Baileys & Sons
Can you tell us a little about the history of Baileys & Sons? My great-grandfather founded our family jewellery business in London in 1919. My family then moved to Amersham, where Hewitt’s Jewellers was created. In the 1950’s my grandfather joined the business and later on my father Nigel also…
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7 JanuaryBusinesses For Sale
Businesses for sale: Attractive business opportunity in picturesque Cornish fishing village
This is an amazing opportunity to acquire an existing, successful jewellery business with separate workshop included. Porthleven is a picturesque fishing village on the south coast of Cornwall, set between Land’s End and The Lizard with great local support and year round seasonal trade. The shop and the workshop [pictured]…
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3 JanuaryAdvice
Selling tips: Where is the manager?
So, where are they? Where they usually are, in the back. This is one of the problems that aggravates jewellers the most. One jeweller I have met was so perplexed he even found some humor in it by saying: “Leonard, if my store was a ship it would capsize.” Owners…
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Dec- 2018 -17 DecemberBusinesses For Sale
For Sale: Ernest G. Brooks Jewellers – Rent £10,400 Per Annum
Established High Street Jewellers in business for 19 years for sale due to sudden ill health of the current owners. The store is situated at the crossroads of the South Wales town of Ammanford . The town is approximately five minutes from junction 49 of the M4 and around one…
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5 DecemberFeatures
Voice on the High Street: Garnier Jewellers
Please tell us about Garnier Jewellers Garnier Jewellers was originally set up in 1962 by Paul Garnier and his wife in a small shop in Hoddesdon, a secondary position in a side street. They very quickly began to run out of space and decided to move to a new development…
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