JCK Online - May 1, 2008

We're in a new, more expensive era for businesses and consumers. Commodities like oil, flour, platinum, and even mushrooms are at record price levels and likely to stay there for the foreseeable future, say experts. Gold is no exception. Its highest-ever per-troy-ounce prices are affecting the jewelry business worldwide, and inventories of last year's less-expensive gold jewelry are running out.

• Features
• Managing Electronic Discovery
• U.S. Watch Industry Recruits Veterans
• Christie's Rides the Wave
• An Inconvenient Tooth
• Tapping Into the Power of Positive Thinking
• Software for Hard Numbers
• What Your Customers Care About: Me, Myself, and Mine
• 10 Best Practices for Selecting Retail Management Software

• Jeweler's Notebook
• Taking It to the Maks
• Five Questions
• Village Jewelers
• Gem Pricing Report
• Gem Pricing Report
• Golden Opportunities
• In-Store Marketing and Promotion
• In the Industry
• Obituary
• Russell Simmons to Keynote JCK ~ Las Vegas
• LUXURY & PREMIERE Offer Amenities at the Palazzo
• Management Matters
• Reference Checking: How to Avoid Liability
• Strategies for Selling
• Step It Up or You May Have to Step Aside!
• The Retail Advantage
• Out With the Old, In With the New

• Opinion
• Counterpoint
• Manufacturing and Retail Myopia
• Editor's Page
• Reframing
• Our World
• Tough Love

• UpFront
• Diamonds
• Rapaport Defends Changes to List
• DTC Opens Up Botswana Sorting Facility
• Julius Klein Opens Namibia Factory
• Be Careful With New Customers, JBT Warns
• DMIA Calls for GIA Investigation
• Did Canadian Company Find Purple Micro-Stones?
• Fashion
• At Tina Tang, Every Purchase Plants a Tree
• Get to Know ...Donna Distefano Thomas
• Sarah Graham Metalsmithing's Eco Effort
• From the Publisher
• A Busy Month
• Gems
• Andesine Aggravation
• AGTA/JVC's Essential Guide for Irradiated Gems
• Barbara H. Chatham
• Spotlight
• PhotoScribe Prevails in Lawsuit
• Helzberg Cuts 21 Jobs
• JSA Warns About Fraudulent Telephone Orders
• Reed Business Information, JCK Owner, to Be Sold
• Chain to Liquidate
• ABN AMRO's Jewelry Business Goes to Fortis
• Former Friedman's CEO Convicted of Fraud
• New Alternative Metal Patented
• New Fortunoff CEO: 'We'll Build on Our Strengths'
• Watches
• Swiss Watch Exports Set 18-Year Record
• Fake Watches Seized in Mexico City Raid
• Movado Group Launches Unified Brand Strategy
• LVMH Watches & Jewelry Up 13%