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What's New?
Ideal Brilliant Joins the GemFind.com
JCK-Jewelers Circular Keystone, 3/12/2008
Ideal Brilliant of New York has joined GemFind.com's network of wholesaler jewelers, making an additional 3,300 certified diamonds available to GemFind.com customers.The GemFind Network now has 45 diamond suppliers and a diamond inventory of over 50,000 certified loose diamonds. Using its diamond database, GemFind.com customers are able to perform detailed searches for the type of diamonds they are looking for online, and then choose to buy the diamonds online or see them first at a local diamond jeweler. >>>
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...Is Launched
The network that lets consumer search for diamonds online and then see it in person at a Local Jewelry Store
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JSA warns suppliers of bogus money orders
National Jeweler, March 14, 2008
The Jewelers' Security Alliance (JSA) is warning jewelry suppliers about a phone scam in which callers posing as new customers are using bogus money orders to order jewelry merchandise in the $1,500 price range. >>>
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BlueOar Raises Gem Diamonds Recommendation to 'Buy'
By Avi Krawitz,03/17/08
RAPAPORT- Investment analysts BlueOar Securities raised its forecast for Gem Diamonds "to reflect stronger pricing" of rough diamonds, particularly in the high end market.
"Gem is well placed to capitalize on current strong pricing for rough diamonds, based on a combination of larger stones at Letseng and rare yellow diamonds at Ellendale," BlueOar analyst Alison Stent wrote in a research note published March 7. >>> |
Know - How
eBay Lawsuit Summary...to the Heart of Core...
Jewelry News at Sunday, March 16, 2008
As posted by Jewelry Blogger on March 16th, Windsor Auctions is suing eBay in a lawsuit by Windsor Auctions alleging that a competitor, within the eBay Live Auctions platform, gained an unfair competitive advantage over other Live Auction jewelry sellers. Going to the core of the matter is one of the many facets of this story. First, let's take a closer look at what eBay core represents. >>>
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New California law gets the lead out of piercing jewelry
By Doug Oakley, 03/14/2008
Hipsters beware: That naval piercing or nose ring may be hazardous to your health.
In rare cases, seizures, organ failure and even death can occur. That's the message from the California Department of Toxic Substance Control, which is enforcing a new state law that regulates lead in jewelry, especially piercing jewelry. That law went into effect March 1.
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Certificate: Upgrading the Jennifer Lopez pink
Tacy,13 March 2008
 The day mega-actress Jennifer Lopez broke her engagement to Ben Affleck might have been a sad one for the unlucky groom-not-to-be, but it may have been a fortunate day for the diamond industry. Lopez returned the 6.10-carat pink diamond back to Affleck, who had bought it in 2002 (for a mere $1.2 million). >>>
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Marketing
Building Online Communities
JCK-Jewelers Circular Keystone, 3/14/2008
"We live in a world that democratized and decentralized," Joel said. "Twenty percent of all searches on Google have never been done before, every month.Forty-eight percent of leisure time is spent online. This is the type of speed that your market is changing." >>>
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GIA Jewelry Career Fair 2008 Dates are Set
JCK-Jewelers Circular Keystone, 3/13/2008 The Gemological Institute of America's Jewelry Career Fair will be held July 25 in New York City at the Jacob Javits Center and on Sept. 12 in Carlsbad, Calif., at the Institute's eadquarters.The GIA Jewelry Career Fair is the industry's largest and most prominent recruiting event.>>> |
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Why Tungsten Carbide Jewelry?
Jewelry News at Sunday, March 16, 2008
What is Tungsten? Tungsten is a metal found in several ores and has robust physical properties. It has the highest melting point of all the non-alloyed metals and is second to carbon of the elements. Tungsten carbide is one of the most durable and scratch resistant jewelry available. What gives Tungsten Carbide it's hard, scratch resistant property?
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Salespeople must know palladium to sell it
National Jeweler, March 11, 2008
Understanding palladium and being able to overcome customer objections to this alternative metal are keys to its sale, according to a seminar conducted on Monday at the JA New York Winter Show. >>>
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Record diamond prices spark fears over speculation
Reuters: March 13,08
Strengthening demand for top quality diamonds has pushed prices to world-record highs, but investments in the gemstones could sour if economic turmoil forces speculators to flood the market. Surging global economic growth and a rapid fall in the dollar have pushed commodity prices, including the rarest polished diamonds, to all-time peaks in recent months. >>>
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Jewelry Producer Prices Surge by 11% in January, a Near-Record
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| IDEX Online Research: Ken Gassman March 13, '08. |
Retailers should prepare for substantial price increases from their suppliers, based on a leap of 11 percent, year-over-year, in the January Jewelry Producer Price Index (JPPI) in the U.S. market. >>>
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Swatch Profit Rises at Slowest Rate in Three Years
Bloomberg.com By Thomas Mulier, March 14, 2008
Swatch Group AG's second-half profit rose at the slowest pace in three years on lower demand for the company's watches in Japan and production bottlenecks.Net income at the world's largest watchmaker climbed 11 percent to 554 million Swiss francs ($549 million) from 499 million francs in the year-earlier period, >>>
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