The Jewelers Vigilance Committee is hosting a 45-minute webinar next month that will explain the Dodd-Frank Act and steps suppliers must take to assure customers that minerals are conflict-free.
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Former Romano’s Jewelers owner Ramil Abalkhad was sentenced last week after pleading guilty to identify theft and fraud in November.
The shrinking middle class and our more casual society were among the topics covered at Tom LaForge’s keynote speech at the Atlanta Jewelry Show.
They identify key challenges for a jeweler and then partners the retailer with business advisers who are experts in those particular areas.

Smyth Jewelers’ “New Rules of Engagement” advertising campaign recognizes the way this generation has redefined relationships.

While engagement rings will be designed online, consumers will have to take them into jewelers’ stores to actually order them, for now.

In addition to being cheaper, the diamond screening machine is also faster and better, De Beers said.
An arbitrator has issued a mixed ruling in the ongoing gender discrimination case against Kay and Jared parent company Sterling Jewelers.
The documents are connected to the ongoing gender discrimination case against Sterling Jewelers and detail a culture where women were objectified, disrespected and scared.
The Jewelers’ Security Alliance has issued another bulletin warning retailers of small bands of distraction thieves who are hitting jewelry stores around the country.
Of those who plan to spend them, the greatest percentage will put that money toward everyday expenses.
The fashion trade journal, which was a daily publication at one point, also laid off eight people.

The jeweler has added three retail veterans to its board while announcing that three current directors won’t be up for re-election in 2017 and 2018.
The proposed “Border Adjustment Tax” imposes a 20 percent tax on goods imported from overseas, be they raw or finished.
Jewelers of America’s retail members now will get an IDEX Premium yearly membership for free.

The diamond miner and marketer said U.S. diamond jewelry demand continued to grow, boosted in part by fourth quarter marketing campaigns.

The 15-second version of the Diamond Producers Association’s “Runaways” is set to come on sometime between 9 and 10:45 p.m. during the Academy Awards.

The news comes one day after the diamond and precious metal miner announced that Chairman John Parker will be stepping down this year.

A ring from the diamond jewelry manufacturer was featured in a surprise Valentine’s Day proposal on the “Today” show this week.

Out in select theaters Friday, “A United Kingdom” tells the story of Botswana’s road to independence.

The Bunder diamond discovery in India is now the property of the government of Madhya Pradesh.

The figure from the Jewelers Board of Trade includes the U.S. and Canada and represents a 64 percent increase over the prior year.
He recognized them from a Jewelers Security Alliance bulletin and called police when they came into his store.

The annual conference on industry developments will be held from May 21 to 24 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

One of Macy’s biggest problems has been its inability to convert Kaufmann’s shoppers, Editor-in-Chief (and Western Pennsylvania native) Michelle Graff writes.














