I will be on vacation next week and this feature will not run. Wishing everyone a great end of summer.
This week: Can malls rebrand themselves? How much does Amazon know about you? And how TikTok is helping people find lost jewelry. All below.
How are jewelry sales? Depends on who’s measuring them.
Richemont sells Yoox Net-a-Porter stake to Farfetch
Signet completes acquisition of Blue Nile
– Fitch affirms Signet’s “stable” outlook
Alex and Ani receives $17 million credit facility
Movado sees “weakness” as second-quarter sales decline
U.S. demand pushing Indian lab-grown sales to $8 billion
– “Core groups” buying lab-grown diamonds
Bloomberg: Russian diamonds are “flowing again”
Diamond trends webinar with Martin Rapaport (video)
Brink’s says it shouldn’t match jewelers’ losses in record truck heist
– Jewelers file their own lawsuit, target sleeping driver
Australian publication links Chow Tai Fook with organized crime
Logos deleted from JewelClaim site “without explanation”
Former Tiffany CEO to chair Audemars Piguet
Richemont still doesn’t want ex-Bulgari CEO on board
Rhoda Denaburg Link, Levy’s jewelry matriarch, dies
Jeweler remembered for wanting to end the cycles of gun violence in community
Hodinkee announces five new editorial hires
GIA expands business development team
Interview with Pandora CEO Lasik
Interview with Jacob Arabo and Ben Arabov, co-CEOs of Jacob & Co. (Video)
Interview with Stephen Lagos about his namesake brand
My interview with World Diamond Council president Edward Asscher (Video)
Marc Choyt on the KP, RJC, and Alrosa
Murowa diamond subcontractor fails to pay employees for over five months
Why Angola increased stakeholding in mine
– FT article (subscription required)
Tycoon steps away from Botswana mine (subscription required)
Canadian hockey legend on diamond mine investing (video)
Inside the “great mall rebrand”
Mejuri sets up store in Houston
Amazon’s data about customers keeps increasing
Is Facebook running on fumes?
TikTok trend helps people find lost engagement rings
– TikTok jeweler sells $23,000 collection in under a minute
New book chronicles history of hip-hop jewelry
What “coastal grandmother” trend means for jewelry
Tiffany introduces all-gender bangle collection
Chinese Gen Z customers “feeling pinch,” hurting luxury consumers
Jewelry collection of Dallas billionaire heiress going up for auction
Rosario Dawson becomes the face of Pandora’s lab-grown diamond line
How Miranda Kerr ended up in diamond scandal
Indian jeweler arrested for making threats to Mukesh Ambani
South African man busted with illegal diamonds
Report: Russian spy infiltrated NATO with impersonating jeweler
Australian newspaper recounts famed Argyle gem heist
Shane Co. helps “Kids In Need”
Trove of gold rings found in prehistoric grave in Romania
The world’s most expensive Apple Watch case
McDonald’s turns trash into jewelry
Media Watch
The Independent takes a deep dive into diamonds
From the Podcast
The Jewelry District, Episode 76: Mark Smelzer
Have a great weekend! See you in September.
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