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Visit GemFind July 27th-July 30, 2008 at JA New York, NY
The National Jeweler Network Online Retailing Forum is an invitation-only event for independent jewelry retail executives. The academically-based forum is geared to foster thought leadership and forward-thinking ideas to help retailers solve current and future business challenges. The event is positioned to address the strategies, processes, and technologies/services surrounding key online transactions for jewelry retailers including distribution, marketing and merchandising. >>>
Visit GemFind at Booth 2287
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Are you missing out on the boomer market?
National Jeweler By Michelle Graff July 07, 2008  Seattle-They number about 78 million and control a vast percentage of the
country's assets. In their younger years, they
marched for civil and women's rights and against the war in Vietnam, and today,
they are not growing old quietly.
"They" are the
baby boomer generation, the segment of the population now between 43 and 62
years old who were born after World War II. >>>
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ICA Dubai Events
Jewelers Circular Keystone
July 07, 2008
 The International Colored Gemstone
Association is hosting the world's first international gem show focused on
the loose colored gemstone industry Oct. 13 - 15 in Dubai.
The ICA International Gem Show Dubai 2008 will be held under the patronage of
the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre a Dubai government initiative. Dubai is
rapidly becoming recognized as the gateway for commodities to the Middle East
with favorable importation duties for exhibitors and buyers. >>>
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Stocks Fall on Worries About Financial Sector
By MADLEN READ AP Business Writer July 07,2008 Stocks lost more ground in extremely volatile trading Monday, as
investors recoiled at a cautious economic outlook from a Federal
Reserve official and the possibility of more financial troubles of
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The market found only slight solace in retreating oil prices.>>> |
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De Beers Polishes Its Image
By VANESSA O'CONNELL, July 7, 2008
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
 When Gareth Penny became De Beers Group's chief executive in 2006, the world's biggest diamond producer was mired in some of the worst crises in its 120-year history. Rapper Kanye West's "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" in 2005 and the movie "Blood Diamond" in 2006 were triggering a wave of negative publicity about buying "conflict diamonds," which were sold in the 1990s by African rebels to help pay for their wars.
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Know - How
Survey: Independents expect 2008 upturn in sales
By Emma Johnson , National Jeweler July 03, 2008
New York-What are your peers up to?
That question can be answered by National Jeweler's first-ever "America's Best Jewelers" benchmarking survey, launched this spring in an effort to suss out industry trends and help independent jewelers establish best practices in their stores. >>>
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Why Attend the GIA Jewelry Career Fair?
CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has announced the agenda for the 18th GIA Jewelry Career Fair being held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City on Friday, July 25, 2008. >>>
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This market keeps glittering
Gem dealers who cater to the rich say times are good
By JENNIFER LATSON Houston Chronicle July 04, 2008
The economy might be slowing, but you wouldn't know it here at Zadok Jewelers near the Galleria. It and other high-end jewelers are prospering even in rocky times.
Many of their customers, largely impervious to the higher cost of gasoline and groceries, are still in the market for multiple carats. In fact, they're buying bigger diamonds and more rare gems than ever before. >>> |
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Gold's rally
probably won't get a summer break
By Myra
P. Saefong, MarketWatch July 02, 2008
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DTC Prices Rise +5% in
July Sight
By Avi Krawitz July 07, 2008
 The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) said prices would rise on average of slightly
more than 5 percent, and up to 15 percent on higher quality goods, at the sixth
sight for the year taking place this week at its London and in
Africa.DTC had previously confirmed the price hike but did not say how
much the increase would be. >>>
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Relationship Marketing
By Dr. Gomathi Viswanathan Ezine@rtcles
In the early 1990s the concept of relationship marketing was formally
introduced into the field of service marketing. And further the concept
was also found applicable in the case of industrial as well as consumer
products. As the concept of relationship marketing has emerged the
focus has been shifted from transaction marketing to relationship
marketing as under:
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Ouch! Could General Motors Go Bankrupt?
By Vinod Kuriyan July 03, 2008
Even as the global gem and jewellery industry, faced with fading American
demand, is feverishly trying to open up new markets all around the world, here
come more alarming signals from the US. Merrill Lynch now says behemoth
automaker General Motors could go bankrupt if it can't raise $15 billion to
shore up its liquidity problems, reports the Financial
Times blog. >>>
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Marketing Tips From The Legends - Coca-Cola And Starbucks Case Studies
By Adrienne Markovic Ezine@rticles
Analysis of the histories of both Coca-Cola and Starbucks offer us
commoners a treasure trove of tips for our own marketing and branding
campaigns. So, you area startup company, mom & pop job, and/or
small business that  cannot yet conceive of Global domination? Here are
12 compiled tips from the legends that took them from obscurity to near
mythical standings. >>>
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