How to sell to female self-purchasers
Women who buy their own jewelry are a rapidly growing market, but retailers need to retool their approach if they want to attract these customers.
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Sotheby’s reflects on 10 years of records
The past decade might be known for superheroes, Netflix and memes, but for Sotheby’s it was all about record-breaking jewels, as worldwide sales for the division totaled more than $4.7 billion.
Research: more people want gold jewelry than actually buy it
Many more U.S. consumers are interested in buying gold jewelry than actually do, according to new research from the World Gold Council.
Chow Tai Fook Launches Jewelry Academy Partnership
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited, in partnership with French jewelry school Haute Ecole de Joaillerie (HEJ), has launched the Loupe Jewellery Academy.
What Tiffany’s acquisition means for the jewelry industry
Life as the resident retail reporter at National Jeweler can be a bit of a bummer.
Tiffany sales stall as tourist spending dries up
Sales at Tiffany & Co. were flat at $1.01 billion in the third fiscal quarter as increases in mainland China compensated for weak spending in the US and Hong Kong.
Here’s what diamond shoppers are searching for online, says Stud
Analytics firm GemFind Digital Solutions recently released the latest edition of its semiannual “Diamond Click Trends” research report, which analyzes hundreds of online searches by diamond consumers.
DPA uses Funny or Die to slam lab-grown diamonds
The Diamond Producers Association has released three videos on Funny or Die to promote natural diamonds—and slam its lab-grown competitors.
Bain says luxury secondhand market is opportunity not threat
The secondhand market, which reached 26 billion euros ($28.8 billion) in 2019, is evidence of the evolving mentality of luxury goods buyers. That’s just one finding of the latest Bain & Company Luxury Study.
Sarine returns to profit in third quarter
Sarine Technologies recorded its first quarterly profit this year amid solid demand for its Galaxy diamond-mapping equipment.
The biggest spenders this Holiday season? Generation X
While Generation X may have small numbers compared to baby boomers or millennials, the former “latchkey kids” will likely be the biggest spenders this holiday, according to the 2019 Holiday Purchase Intentions Survey from the NPD Group.
In a new jewelry book, a Cartier delves into her family
New York—Every jewelry lover wants to learn the history behind the industry’s storied houses like Van Cleef, Bulgari and Cartier.
