Hearing good reports from the Vicenza fair …
This just in … Breeden sells 300,000 Zale shares.
Birks and Mayors sales up
8%.
Richemont jewelry sales up
20%.
Richline acquires
Rosato.
Investopedia: Jewelers “shine bright.”
James Avery expands in
Southeast.
Industry bankruptcies down, says
JBT.
Kimberley Process: “General
agreement” on Zimbabwe.
De Beers sees diamond price growth this
year.
– Diamdel sees “strong
demand.”
– Rapaport: Prices rose 10% in
2010.
Oppenheimer isn’t selling
De Beers stake.
– Hails industry’s
resilience.
– Varda Shine speech
De Beers sells
Finsch mine to Petra.
– My thoughts: “The
incredible shrinking De Beers.”
– Analysts upbeat.
De Beers restarts Canadian
mine project.
– Will create 700 jobs.
Rio Tinto 4Q diamond production drops
28%.
– BHP 2Q diamond production drops
11%.
Botswana approves diamond mining in
CKGR.
– But what about the
Bushmen?
– Bushmen issue surfaces in
Wikileaks.
Lazare Kaplan plagued by
material uncertainties.
Erez Daleyot opens
DTC sight.
Edahn: Is Belgium supporting its diamond industry?
– Ari Epstien becomes
AWDC CEO.
DDC election upheld again in
court.
Google plans groupon
clone.
– Is Groupon “a bubble”?
Minnesota outlaws cadmium in
children’s jewelry.
Tiffany sues
soundalike sites.
Golden Globe jewelry reports: Jennifer
Heebner, Cynthia
Sliwa, Jewelry
Insider, Beth
Bernstein, Cheryl
Kremkow.
– Jennifer Lopez wore $5 million in
diamonds.
– Christina Hendricks stores
bracelet in
cleavage.
– Lots of Forevermarks.
Fabrege denies
spider rumor.
An obviously bored person upset
about the fingernails holding
a De Beers diamond. It takes all kinds.
From the Blog:
– The
Incredible Shrinking De Beers.
– “General
Agreement” Toward a Kimberley Process Deal on Zimbabwe. (That has to
be the most boring blog headline I’ve ever written.)
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