JCK Online - September 1, 2008

Bankruptcies are never pleasant, but Whitehall's creditors got a particularly unpleasant surprise at the company's first bankruptcy hearing. According to witnesses and court documents, company attorneys say they can claim ownership of consignment goods unless the goods' UCC filings are “perfected.

• Cover Story
• State of the Industry: 10 Ways to Revitalize the Jewelry Business

• Features
• The JCK-Harrison Group Consumer Jewelry Study, Part II
• Best in Show 2008 [Part II]
• Thriving in Troubled Times: 'You're Not Just Selling Jewelry' An Interview With Brook Ellis and Mink Stavenga
• 5 Marketing Tips for a Successful Holiday Selling Season

• Notebook
• Attentive Selling Equals Good Security
• Gem Pricing Report
• Gem Pricing Report
• In the Industry
• Watchmaker Severin Wunderman
• Appointments
• Dee Congress
• Retail Advantage
• Watch Out!
• Retail Success Story
• Exclusively Diamonds

• Opinion
• Best of the Blogs
• From the Blogs
• Counterpoint
• The State of the Business
• The State of the Business
• Editor's Page
• Do We Need the Mall Jewelers?
• Our World
• Independents Forever

• Spotlight
• Get to Know
• Anna Ruth Henriques
• Indicators
• Consumer Confidence Holds Steady, Still Low
• Foreclosure Activity Increases in Second Quarter 2008

• UpFront
• From the Publisher
• Time to Enter the JCK Jewelers Choice Awards!
• News + Notes
• Inventor of First Synthetic Diamond Dies
• Zale Appoints New President
• Richard Hughes Leaves AGTA GTC
• FTC Allows 'Cultured'
• Whitehall Liquidates
• Colibri Gets New Financing
• Mervyn's, Boscov's File Chapter 11
• Genender, Skagen File Counter Lawsuits
• Newswire
• Burma Rubies Banned