Retail – JCK

Jocelyn Zimmer Becomes President of Zimmer Brothers

Zimmer Brothers Jewelers has appointed Jocelyn Zimmer president. She is the first female president of the fifth-generation family business, which...

Hunter Tivol McGrath Takes Over Family Store

Kansas City, Mo.–based Tivol has named Hunter Tivol McGrath its new CEO. He is the fourth generation of his family to head the century-old...

Solving New Trends in the New Normal

2020 has seen explosive growth in two disruptive areas: online shopping and lab-grown diamonds. From electronics to jewelry, the way consumers...

A Deep Dive Into Botswana Diamond Mining With De Beers and Ben Bridge

In 2004, when I was a fledgling editor of the Geneva-based trade publication Couture International Jeweler, I spent a week in southern Africa on a...

The Top 10 New Things at JCK Las Vegas 2023

The jewelry industry’s biggest gathering of the year is a little more than a week away. Buyers headed to JCK Las Vegas won’t want to miss the...

Fine Jewelry Takes Center Stage at New Motor City Pawn Brokers Store

With his fifth Motor City Pawn Brokers store, owner Mark Aubrey says he has upped the fine jewelry selection to a point where he sees clients of all...

Air & Anchor Sees Experiential Retail as Part of Its Growth

Three years into owning and operating their jewelry company Air & Anchor, Rachel and Omar Ajaj have jumped into their next dream project: opening...

Former Tiffany Exec Andy Hart Joins Mejuri

Andrew “Andy” Hart, the former senior vice president for diamond supply at Tiffany & Co., has joined the C-suite at direct-to-consumer...

Independent Jewelers’ Sales Have—Surprisingly—Held Up, Panel Says

Despite significant “headwinds,” independent jewelers’ sales have mostly held up, even if they've dropped a bit from pandemic levels, agreed...

3 Tastemakers on 2023 Diamond Trends Worth Banking On

Now that lab-grown diamond manufacturers are capable of producing quality diamonds in impressive sizes, the appeal of basic diamond jewels is waning,...