This week: What analysts say about Signet. Could lab-grown have been beaten with the Coca-Cola playbook? And get a diamond with your lobster dinner. All below.

 

Mastercard forecasts 3% holiday sales gain

– Retail holiday hiring set to fall

– Retail sales showing upturn

 

56% of jewelers posted gains in August

-Peter Smith: Has jewelry market peaked?

 

Jewelers warned of wave of “Ocean’s Eleven” burglaries

 

Tourneau | Bucherer president and CEO Ira Melnitsky leaves company

 

Sally Morrison to lead De Beers’ U.S. diamond marketing

– Diamond sector facing “severe crisis” in India

– Crisis hurting Botswana, too

– Richard Chetwode: How the natural industry could have fought lab-grown

 

Firm prices at De Beers, Alrosa “here to stay”

 

How lab-grown e-tailer Clean Origin came to its end

 

Pandora puts up web page for engagement rings

 

Lucara Diamond finds another jumbo gem

 

What analysts are saying about Signet-

– Joshua Freedman breaks down the results (video)

– Forbes interviews Signet CEO Gina Drosos (video)

– Drosos hailed by Jim Cramer

 

Richemont’s “relentless march into retail”

– Richemont clan bears heavy losses from diamond mines (subscription)

 

Indian jewelers “brace for a boom”

– FATF finds Indian market “vulnerable to money laundering”

 

“Obsession with China” hurting watch market

 

AI startup turns shoppers into jewelry designers (subscription)

 

Retail jewelers talk about first-time experiences

 

Ring Concierge opening stores in Los Angeles and Houston (subscription)

 

Vlora adds Madison Clayborn, Kelly Good

 

Jewelers Vigilance Committee hires new assistant counsel

 

Daniel Kahn joins consulting firm Lexa International

 

Buccellati exec to head board of new Richemont jewelry acquisition

 

Metalsmith artist and teacher Fred Fenster dies

 

Oregon jeweler sentenced to 20 years for stealing from customers

 

Diavik diamond mine fined $143,000 for “preventable” worker accident

 

Andra sues Nordstrom, Mejuri over tech patents

 

Amazon hit with job bias lawsuit over religious jewelry

 

Children’s jewelry recalled due to lead and cadmium poisoning

 

Bernard Arnault forbids managers from talking to certain media

 

2024 Emmys jewelry: the affair of the earrings

– The “secret history” of Maya Rudolph’s Bulgari jewelry

 

Inside Princess Grace’s jewelry vault

 

A review of David and Sybil Yurman’s new book

 

Where founder of Tabayer brand shops for vintage Cartier

 

Boston restaurant offers lobster with diamonds

 

Bride-to-be “pranked” with fake jewelry box

 

Media Watch

CNN Style on jet, “forgotten gemstone” (by former JCK-er Emili Vesilind)

 

From the Blog

How Lab-Grown E-tailer Clean Origin Came to Its End

 

From the Podcast   

​The Jewelry District, Episode 130: Montana Sapphires, Grown Brilliance

 

 

 

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