ABN Amro tightens diamond lending terms
ABN Amro will implement changes to its guidelines for lending to the diamond industry in 2020, reasoning that the trade has become more efficient and now requires less credit.
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ALROSA unearths large 191ct rough diamond at the end of the year
Press release – ALROSA unearthed this crystal in the early hours of December 25 at the Botuobinskaya kimberlite pipe in Yakutia. According to estimations made by ALROSA’s experts on site, a rough diamond weighing 190.77 carats has high quality characteristics.
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.
Everledger and Alrosa launch WeChat ecom pilot
Technology company Everledger and Alrosa have launched a WeChat e-commerce pilot that will give Chinese consumers a more transparent and secure mobile diamond buying experience.
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.
De Beers rough diamond sales for cycle 10, 2019
US$425 million (provisional)
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.
The natural and lab-grown diamond sectors need to stop fighting
At the recent Dubai Diamond Conference panel on lab-grown diamonds, William Shor, managing partner of Caspian VC, one of the companies backing Diamond Foundry, made a startling suggestion.
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.
Thanksgiving deals draw record number of shoppers, says NRF
Washington—A record number of shoppers flocked to sales from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday this year and spent more than last year, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics.
ALROSA November sales of rough and polished diamonds reached $288 million
ALROSA Group announces diamond sales results for November and eleven months of 2019.
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.
