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November 19, 2008
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TOP STORIESJewelry Remains a Popular Holiday Gift GJEPC Calls for a Moratorium of Rough Imports #Ad:2054_v2_Pos2_336x280#
Richemont Sales Up 10% Hong Kong Jewelry Fair Renamed Good Attendance at Centurion South Beach From Our BlogsStyle 360 by Carrie Soucy Doing PR With Santa I get a lot of press releases. I mean, my-inbox-currently-has-6,000+-messages lot of ... Read On » Cutting Remarks by Rob Bates Rap, Rapped ... Again Earlier this year, Martin Rapaport was criticized for raising prices too dramatical... Read On » Jewels on Jewels by Cynthia Sliwa Trend Watch: Disheveled, Bejeweled Hair For the upcoming holiday season, much of the attention is going to be on woman’... Read On » Style 360 by Jennifer Heebner Fine Jewelry For The Cost Of An iPod Turn off the news this weekend and indulge yourself in a pick-me-up present! ... Read On » MORE INDUSTRY NEWSGuard Shot During Attempted Jewelry Store Robbery at Waldorf-Astoria Ultra Stores, Inc., Obtains Refinancing WJA Offering Education Grants GCAL and Motiganz Partner in Botswana Rado Names Top Young Designer JVC Releases Gold and Silver Jewelry Guide |
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About 72 percent of consumers have completed less than 10 percent of their shopping, compared with 2.2 percent of shoppers who say they have completely finished, according to a National Retail Federation survey. 
The Gems & Jewellery Export Promotion Council has asked its members to “cease the imports of rough diamonds for a month,” beginning Nov. 25. 
Compagnie Financière Richemont said that its sales increased 10 percent year-over-year to $3.5 billion during the first six months of the 2008 fiscal year, due to strong growth in the Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. At constant exchange rates, sales growth was 16 percent. 
Hong Kong Jewellery & Watch Fair has been renamed as the Hong Kong Jewellery and Gem Fair to better reflect the wider scope of the fairs, its organizers, CMP Asia, said Tuesday. Both the June and September editions of the fair in 2009 will be using this new name. 
Nearly 60 exhibitors and 80 prestige jewelry retailers participated in the second annual Centurion South Beach show, held concurrently with the debut of the International Watch Conference last month in Miami Beach, Fla. 
A retired New York City Police Department detective was shot and wounded in a daytime robbery attempt at a jewelry store in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel Saturday, according to media reports. 
Ultra Stores, Inc., which bills itself as “America’s leading off]priced retailer of fine jewelry,” said it has refinanced all of its funded debt. 
The Women's Jewelry Association 2009 Member Grant Program applications are being accepted through Jan. 31, 2009, for expenses incurred in the 2009 calendar year. 
Motiganz, a DTC Sightholder, is working with Gem Certification & Assurance Lab to certify diamonds sourced, cut, and polished in Botswana are compliant with the Kimberley Process and with GCAL’s Source Veritas process of positively identifying and tracing polished diamonds through the use of Gemprint from the factory through the market, and beyond. 
Swiss watchmaker Rado has awarded the Rado Young Designer Award to Christien Meindertsma, chosen by an international design jury in recognition of the originality, inventiveness, and remarkably consequent investigation of materials evident in her work, PIG05049. 
