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Press release – Tracr, the end-to-end diamond industry blockchain traceability platform being developed by De Beers Group in collaboration with industry stakeholders, is pleased to announce that Alrosa has joined the platform’s pilot programme.
Talk about an odd couple: Richemont, the owner of Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, is forming a strategic partnership with Alibaba, the Chinese mega marketplace sometimes criticized for hosting counterfeits and dodgy listings.
Press release – GIA (Gemological Institute of America) announced today that Alrosa, the world’s largest producer of rough diamonds, is piloting in the Institute’s M2M program.
The NPD Group polled a group of consumers to gauge their holiday 2018 shopping plans, and participants indicated more interest in brick-and-mortar shopping than last year.
From greater personalization to “social shopping,” retailers are finding technologically driven ways to meet shoppers’ needs, says “The Trends Shaping 2019,” a new report from credit card company Alliance Data.
An independent diamond industry analyst and consultant said although exceptional and ‘one-off’ diamonds are hard to assign a value to them, the Pink Legacy will likely fetch $2.64 million per carat when it goes under the hammer next month in Geneva.
Israeli diamonds will now be offered for sale directly to Chinese consumers on Alibaba’s luxury platform, Ali Auction (paimai.taobao.com).
It is a 24-carat yellow diamond with an intriguing back story, and it’s going back up on the auction block this fall.
Even if one’s not overly interested in the British royal family (guilty as charged), it’s always worthwhile to see the jewels that its millennial members choose to sport at their royal weddings.
At the conclusion of last week’s 2018 GIA Symposium, I looked at my laptop and realized I’d taken 23 pages of single-spaced notes starting the moment the three-day event kicked off on Oct. 7.
Press release – Long before there was life on Earth, there were diamonds. Most were created one to three billion years ago.
De Beers’ first announcement of its lab-grown diamond line set the jewelry world on fire. But the week of the 24th September Lightbox Jewelry debuted, and the world still seems mostly the same.
