Ad Watchdog Now Rebukes Natural Diamond Council

The National Advertising Division (NAD), which earlier this month asked Diamond Foundry to modify some of its advertising language to make the origin...

GIA Gets Belgian Court to Rule Against Use of ‘AIG’

A court in Antwerp, Belgium, has ordered the AIG Belgium grading lab to stop using the initials AIG, finding that they infringe on GIA's trademarks,...

New U.S. Sanctions Effectively Ban Burmese Gems

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has placed Myanma Gems Enterprise on its Specially Designated National...

Why an Ad Watchdog Warned Diamond Foundry

Yesterday, I spoke with Laura Brett, vice president of the National Advertising Division (NAD), the ad watchdog that just issued marketing...

Watchdog: Diamond Foundry Ads Could Confuse Consumers

BBB National Programs' National Advertising Division (NAD) has recommended that Diamond Foundry modify some of its advertising, to better communicate...

A Sometime Industry Critic Is Returning to the State Dept.

Jose Fernandez (pictured), who advocated for Kimberley Process (KP) and wider industry reform when he was assistant secretary of state for economic,...

U.S. Reimposes Sanctions On Diamond Trader Gertler

The U.S. government taketh away, and then it giveth, and now it taketh away again. (more…)

Jeweler Pleads Guilty to Lying to Federal Agents

On Tuesday, the manager of a jewelry store in Jersey City, N.J., admitted to lying to federal agents during an investigation into a fraud conspiracy,...

GIA Finds Fake Inscriptions on Diamonds

GIA's grading lab recently detected “a number” of diamonds that had counterfeit GIA inscriptions on their girdles. "This is not the first time...

Suit: Chicago Jeweler Allowed Rolex Sales To Gray Market

On Feb. 11, a former employee of Chicago's C.D. Peacock filed suit against the retailer, alleging that management of the authorized Rolex dealer...