JCK Online - March 1, 2006

Visit the Kay Jewelers Web site, and you’ll see something nontraditional for a mall-based mass-market jewelry chain. Sure, there’s a box touting an “inventory clearance,” but there’s also a prominent banner boasting that every Kay store now has a “diamontologist,” with degrees from the Diamond Council of America.

• Cover Story
• The Dark Side of Consolidation
• Kay Jewelers Goes Gotham

• Features
• The Mobile Marketplace
• From Timepiece Fashion Accessory
• Brazil's Bold Steps

• Jeweler's Notebook
• Ask the Gemologist
• Color Change vs. Alexandrite-Like
• Gem Pricing
• Gem Pricing
• In the Industry
• JBT Announces Collections Help
• Tad Smith Named CEO of Reed Business Information
• AnchorCert Services Develops Tarnish Tests
• JCK Donates Rare Books to GIA
• IADC Goes Global
• ORT's Jewelry Industry Chapter Raises Funds for Students
• JA Publishes Annual Cost of Doing Business Survey
• LJG Makes Gift to JFC in Memory of Steve Stone
• From Ancient to Hi-Tech at Revere's Masters Symposium
• AGS Laboratories Officially Launches India Operation
• Appointments
• GIA School of Business Launches Bachelor’s Program
• AGTA Selects JCOC.net as Research Partner
• AJDC Elects Revere as President
• DCIT Introduces New Services
• Aaura Creates New Web Site
• AGS Labs Offers Diamond Consultation With Cut Grade Option
• WJA Metropolitan Chapter Has a Holiday Party
• IGI India Launches Design Course in Mumbai
• Leveraging Your People
• How Bad Negotiating Can Kill Your Brand
• Meeting Expectations
• Don't let bad, boring meetings waste your time and ruin your day.
• The Retail Advantage
• 13 Questions to Equip Your Marketing Toolbox
• Untangling the Web
• E-Mail Campaigns: 8 Ways to Reach Customers Without Annoying Them

• Opinion
• Counterpoint
• Grading Reports: A New Opportunity
• Editor's Page
• Making Margins
• Our World
• GIA's Problems

• UpFront
• Diamonds
• Argyle: Small-Diamond Supply Will Continue, but Prices Will Rise
• Bigger Than Three-Stone?
• Meeus Resigns From HRD
• GIA Scandal Not Known to Consumers, Survey Finds
• Fashion
• A JEWEL of a Project Helps Reduce HIV Risk
• Schwarzschild Celebrates Style
• Brazilian Jewelry Bares Its Soul
• Gems
• The Rising Cost of Colombian Emeralds
• Once Upon a Tomb
• Genuine Aussie Can'ardlies
• The Colombian Peso Syndrome
• Crevoshay in Smithsonian
• Pulisher's Letter
• Customer Service
• Spotlight
• Whitehall Agrees to Buyout Offer
• Sterling Makes Changes at the Top
• FinCEN: Don't Sweat PATRIOT Act
• Correction
• Clarification
• Holiday: Mixed Month for Majors
• Online Retailers Celebrate Happy Holidays
• Newswire
• FBI Forms Jewelry Task Force
• Obituary
• Watches
• Newswire
• Omega Buys JFK Inauguration Watch for $350,000
• New Watch Technician Training Is AWCI's 'Future'