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Jewelry Wholesalers Worldwide are United With GemFind's Unique Professional Services and Online Tools
GemFind.net, an online portal built for jewelry wholesalers and diamond dealers, now offers several professional services and web-based tools that are uniting the entire jewelry industry and allowing its worldwide membership to compete on a global scale. GemFind initially launched its portal in 1999 with the goal of becoming the premier Internet destination for the web-driven jewelry industry and evolving the B2B wholesale gemstone marketplace. One of the main draws for its members, who consist of registered and verified industry-only diamond sellers and buyers, is the ability to add their current inventory into a vast diamond database that is accessible to all other members in the GemFind network.>>>
If you are interested to learn more, please contact us at 800-373-4373 ext 111.
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| The fight club
By Victoria Gomelsky National Jeweler July 23, 2010
 If whatever doesn't kill you truly makes you stronger, then this year's Eight-Figure Independents, an elite club of independent American jewelers bringing in $10 million or more in annual sales in a single store, have emerged from the Great Recession in fighting form, leaner, meaner and remarkably more resilient than anyone could have predicted two years ago.>>>
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Role of the RJC
Professional Jeweller July 22, 2010
 The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) is an international not-for-profit organisation bringing together over 230 member companies across the jewellery supply chain. It was founded in 2005 by a group of fourteen organisations: ABN AMRO,
BHP Billiton Diamonds, Cartier (part of Richemont), World Jewellery Confederation, Diamond Trading Company (part of De Beers), Diarough, Jewelers of America, National Association of Goldsmiths (UK), Newmont Mining, Rio Tinto, Rosy Blue, Signet Group, Tiffany & Co., and Zale Corporation.>>>
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Increase sales in 2010
Sell More Through Virtual Inventory
1. Manufacturers and Diamond Dealers upload their merchandise to GemFind.net
2. Retail Jewelers will select from the Manufacturer's or Diamond Dealer's inventory and markup the merchandise...
3. Retail Jewelers will link to GemFind's search engine and showcase their selected Virtual Inventory on their own websites...
4. Consumers visit websites and purchase the Retail Jeweler's Virtual Inventory.
Virtual Inventory gives:
1. Manufacturers and Diamond Dealers the opportunity to sell more to Retailers....
2. Retail Jewelers the ability to sell something they don't have in their stores...
3. Consumers the ability to view the merchandise at a local jeweler or to buy online...
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By Rob Bates JCK July 22,2010
The upcoming departure of Gareth Penny from De Beers marks the end of an era in the diamond industry. Let's call it the "post-cartel era." Penny announced he was resigning on Friday, on what seems to be his own accord. De Beers spokespeople noted that he had said from the start that he wanted to serve five years as CEO the title was formerly called managing director), and that runs out this year. >>>
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| Platinum and gold manufacturers test drive silver
National Jeweler July 23, 2010
 New York--With the price of gold continuing to be a hurdle at the sales counter, more jewelry manufacturers that once worked solely in gold and platinum have been moving into the silver market, expanding their jewelry offerings with new silver collections while working hard to remain true to their brand heritages. >>>
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Why jewelers can learn from shoe e-tailer Zappos
By Ellen Fruchtman National Jeweler July 26, 2010
 love shoes. Maybe not to the point where I consider Imelda Marcos to be my hero, but pretty close. Shopping for shoes, for people like me, is actually a form of therapy: I love glancing at a row of shoes; I love the displays; I love picking them up and feeling the fabric; and I love examining the craftsmanship. >>>
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| Really, just how big is the diamond on that ring?
By Paul Demery internet retailer. July 22, 2010
 Ice.com, No. 195 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, faces a challenge common to many online retailers of jewelry: Images of diamonds, pearls and other items may not always show their true sizes, resulting in doubtful shoppers abandoning product pages-or paying customers returning items that seemed to lose their online glitter once in hand. >>>
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| Jeweler finds the upside of the downturn By James Alperin National Jeweler July 22, 2010
 It's not news, especially for those of us in the jewelry industry, that business has been pretty tough these past few years. Talk to your friends and customers, and you'll hear that jewelers are not the only ones struggling.That familiar, age-related expression "40 is the new 30" has been reworked into a snappy summation for the business world: "Flat is the new up." Yet for those of us in business, it's hard to accept these new parameters as the norm. We are used to growth, and we expect it from ourselves and our companies.>>>
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Zimbabwe Gets Green Light to Auction Diamonds
By Roe Kalb The Israeli Diamond Industry Blog July 15, 2010
 I think now it's time to get your suitcase packed, fasten your seatbelt and get ready for a trip to Zimbabwe. Thanks to a thumbs-up from the Kimberley Process, which had previously banned Zimbabwe from trading diamonds mined in the Marange fields due to concerns over reported human rights violations and smuggling, the country will soon put a stock of diamonds worth at least $1.7 billion up for sale. >>>
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| Ready for the Gen Y tsunami, jewelers?
By Jan Brassem National Jeweler July 21, 2010
 Prepare yourself, jewelers. Here comes Generation Y (aka Gen Y), 74 million big-spending consumers, born between 1978 and 1995, who inspired a recent Gen Y Forum purported to be "the largest gathering of prestige marketers in North America." The foru
m's official goal was to discuss the "characteristics, influence and brand affinities of tomorrow's affluent consumers." .>>>
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Jewellery manufacturers urged to adopt new approach to diamond financing
By Jonathan Faurie Mining Weekly.com July23, 2010
 International Diamond Manu-facturers Association (IDMA) president Moti Ganz has called on members of the international diamond manufacturing community to rewrite the rules of diamond financing and to ensure a decent return on capital invested.
Addressing the opening of the thirty-fourth World Diamond Congress (WDC), which took place last week, in Moscow, Russia >>>
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