I’ve been thinking a lot about how historical—historically crappy, but history-making nonetheless—this current crises we’re all experiencing is. As my daughter watches the new Wash Your Hands With Baby Shark video for the umpteenth time, I’m struck by how we’re living in moments that will probably end up being recorded in school textbooks. You know how you…

While JCK‘s editors are making COVID-19-related breaking news and blog content available to you on a daily basis (which includes updates on on all the many unfortunate show and event cancellations), our Sunday newsletter will focus on things to lift our community up and bring us closer together (virtually, of course). We’ve got a long list of…

Steven Merdinger, an accountant with many clients in the jewelry industry, has told them they should file business interruption claims with their insurance company—even though they will almost certainly be rejected. “They’ll probably send it back with a reservation of rights,” says Merdinger, managing partner of New York City–based KMR. All of which makes filing a claim…

It’s not only retailers, manufacturers, and designers whose lives (and livelihoods) have been upended by the COVID-19 crisis in the jewelry industry. Those in jewelry marketing, events, and public relations have also felt the sting of many aspects of the business grinding to a near halt this past month.  Public relations professional Francesca Simons, founder of 4-year-old…

De Beers Group’s chief financial officer Nimesh Patel (pictured) will leave the company on July 26, it announced Thursday. Patel’s successor has not yet been named. Patel is leaving De Beers to become chief financial officer and executive director of Spirax-Sarco Engineering. Patel joined Anglo American in 2012 as group head of corporate finance. In 2016, he…