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TOP STORIESBHP Billiton Wins U.S. Approval for Rio Offer Wal-Mart Tops STORES Top 100 Retailers  Blancpain Acquires Vincent Calabrese GIA Scholarship Opportunities for 2009 San Diego Jeweler Participates in Fundraiser From Our BlogsCutting Remarks by Rob Bates Remembering Sylvain Ringer I want to say a few words about Sylvain Ringer, the secretary of the Diamond Dealers Club who died recently... Read On » Style 360 by Jennifer Heebner Live from Israel, the Jovella Jewelry Show, Day Three (Israeli Retail) On Tuesday morning, our Israeli hosts took the journalists to two local shopping districts—Sheinken Street and the Nachlat Binyamin Market. Our guide for this morning was Sigal Admony, deputy director, North American Department, Foreign Trade Administration, in the State of Israel Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor... Read On » Cutting Remarks by Rob Bates LVMH Deals Serious Blow To Ebay I've long been fascinated by ebay, but the recent French court judgment against it for hosting fake LVMH products -- at the same time it's dealing with a similar legal challenge from Tiffany -- gives it one of the biggest challenges in its history... Read On » Jewels on Jewels by Cynthia Sliwa Customer Watch: Face Shapes Part 2 – Curved versus Angular Last week, I wrote about the difficulty of evaluating face shapes and how there is a lack of consensus even among image consultants as to how many different face shapes exist. Today I’ll discuss one consideration that is useful in assessing what may look best on your customers – the dichotomy between curved and angular faces... Read On » MORE INDUSTRY NEWSPaula Leed Receives Business Award Charles & Colvard Launches New Web Site Barkley Named Luxury Business VP for Timex MJSA’s ‘At the Bench Live’ at JCK Toronto GIA New York Career Fair Agenda Dalumi Develops Online Inventory WGI Survey: Consumers and Grading Reports |
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BHP Billiton said Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have granted early termination of the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period for BHP Billiton’s proposed acquisition of Rio Tinto. The mining giant also said that the Antitrust Division of the DoJ has concluded its review without further action. 
The Gemological Institute of America is offering more than 65 scholarships valued at over $372,308. This includes $227,778 allotted to the scholarship fund by the GIA’s Board of Governors from interest earned through GIA’s permanently invested endowment fund. 
Harold Steven's Jewelers of downtown San Diego recently participated in a fundraiser for the Palomar Pomerado Health Foundation. 
Paula Leed, co-president of Royal Jewelers in Andover, was awarded the “Women in Business Award” by the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce this past June. 
Charles & Colvard created Moissanite unveiled a new interactive Web site Tuesday, WhatisMoissanite.com, aimed to help consumers understand the unique jewel known as moissanite. 
Timex Group B.V. named Larry Barkley vice president of Luxury Business. He will report directly into Vertime Business Unit President, Paolo Marai. 
The Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America will present several of its popular ‘At the Bench Live’ seminars at the 2008 JCK Toronto show, Aug. 11-12 in the North Building at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. 
The Gemological Institute of America has announced the agenda for the 18th GIA Jewelry Career Fair being held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City on July 25. 
The Dalumi Group has developed an online inventory, allowing its customers to access the company’s latest stock anywhere and at anytime. 
Consumers are willing to accept grading reports from unfamiliar labs, according to a World Gemological Institute study. 
