Category: Jewelry World

Jewelry show will benefit shelter
The Forum/In-Forum (subscription), ND

Jewels by Park Lane will hold a celebration 6:30 to 9 p.m. June 12 at the Fargo Holiday Inn that will benefit the YWCA Shelter for Women and Children.
The event includes a fashion show, dessert, door prize drawings, makeovers by Hair Success and success stories.
Each ticket entitles the holder to an item of jewelry valued up to $100, and entry into a drawing for a diamond bracelet. Read more about Jewelry show will benefit shelter …

Bead the summer blues with jewelry
Cincinnati Enquirer, OH

The Artful Shopper
BY MARCIA SCHOENI | ENQUIRER CONTRIBUTOR
If your champagne taste in fashion is stymied by a pinched budget, create your own simple accessories. Union Bead Boutique specializes in artisan beads and findings, unusual gem stones, interesting cuts and finishes.

Open less than a month, it’s more like an art gallery than a craft store. Ethnic textiles, artisan pottery and a roomy ebonized worktable in the back create an appealing backdrop for beads from all over the globe. Read more about Bead the summer blues with jewelry …

New Jewelry Web Site Sends People to Real Stores
New York Times

ONLINE jewelers have built a $4 billion business on the idea that customers don’t really need to see a precious stone before paying thousands of dollars to own it. Traditional jewelers want to build an online business too, but with a slight twist. Their motto: Don’t buy online.

Last week, the Independent Jewelers Organization, a trade group representing more than 800 small jewelers, introduced IJODiamonds.com, where consumers can select diamonds and have them delivered to a local store for a personal inspection before any money changes hands Read more about New Jewelry Web Site Sends People to Real Stores …

Burglars steal $100,000 in jewelry from Stillwater store
Duluth News Tribune, MN

Burglars steal $100,000 in jewelry from Stillwater store
Associated Press
STILLWATER, Minn. – Thieves broke into the Mid-town Antique Mall and in two minutes took more than $100,000 worth of jewelry, police said.

The break-in occurred shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday and thieves took more than 300 pieces of jewelry, including rings, watches, bracelets and pendants, police said. Read more about Burglars steal $100,000 in jewelry from Stillwater store …

Jewelry retailer Tiffany 1Q profit rises
AP via Yahoo! News 

NEW YORK – Jewelry and luxury goods retailer Tiffany & Co. said Wednesday that first-quarter earnings grew 7.7 percent, as double-digit percentage growth in international sales outpaced a sluggish domestic sales performance. Its shares rose 2.6 percent in early trading.For the quarter ended April 30, the company’s earnings rose to $43.14 million, or 30 cents per share, from $40.06 million, or 27 cents per share a year earlier. The year-ago period included a 1-cent-per-share tax benefit. Read more about Jewelry retailer Tiffany 1Q profit rises …

HOUSE OF TAYLOR JEWELRY REVENUE UP 29% IN Q1
Tacy, Israel /1 June 2006

Los Angeles-based international jewelry company House of Taylor Jewelry, Inc. saw revenue for the first quarter ended March 31, 2006 rise 29 percent to US$1.4 million from US$1.1 million reported in the same period a year ago. The increase reflects demand for the company’s branded products that were introduced late last year, as well as sales of the company’s discontinued non-branded products.
 
The company recorded significantly higher selling, shipping and general administrative expenses due to higher professional fees, depreciation and amortization expenses involving intellectual property and license agreements, along with costs associated with the company’s move to NASDAQ.
Accordingly, House of Taylor Jewelry posted a net loss of US$2.0 million compared with a net loss of $348,000, or $0.01 per share, in the year-ago period. Read more about HOUSE OF TAYLOR JEWELRY REVENUE UP 29% IN Q1 …

RandR Grosbard and New Age Diamonds present the Fire Flower Jewelry Collection
24-7PressRelease.com
The collection was designed by RandR Grosbard with colored diamonds cultivated by New Age Diamonds.

/24-7PressRelease/ – June 01, 2006 – R and R Grosbard together with New Age Diamonds launches a new jewellery collection – FIRE FLOWER. The collection was designed by R and R Grosbard using cultivated diamonds supplied by New Age Diamonds.

The collection will make its debut at the JCK in Las Vegas on June 3rd this year and will feature a number of matching ensembles. The diamonds from New Age Diamonds are presented in fancy yellow and orange colors in princess and round cuts. Colorless natural diamonds also appear in the collection that is completed in white and yellow gold settings Read more about RandR Grosbard and New Age Diamonds present the Fire Flower Jewelry Collection …

Pearl Jewelry: Historic 5-Ft Wide, 3-Ft Tall ‘Pearl Capitol’ With 200,000 Akoya Pearls ‘Worth Millions,’ On Its Way To Houston
Emediawire (press release), WA

Pearl Jewelry goes patriotic — A 5-ft. wide, 3 ft.tall replica of the nation’s most famous federal building has been “re-built” with more than 200,000 rare cultured pearls said to be equivalent to 4,000 pearl necklaces — “and it’s a feast for the eyes”, says Houston-area jeweler Norman Hargrave.

Baytown, TX (PRWEB) June 1, 2006 — An imposing 5-ft. wide, 3-ft tall replica of the U.S. Capitol handmade from more than 200,000 Akoya pearls and said to be the equivalent of 4,000 pearl necklaces “worth millions,” is coming soon to a small Texas jewelry store with large connections in the pearl world.

The “Pearl Capitol,” owned by Rhode Island-based Imperial Pearl Company will reside June 13-17 in the showroom of Robson Jewelers during a promotional event sponsored by the 80-year-old family-owned store. Imperial Pearl president Peter Bazar says this is the first time the rose-lustered pearl Capitol has been displayed outside of Washington, D.C. Read more about Pearl Jewelry: Historic 5-Ft Wide, 3-Ft Tall 'Pearl Capitol' With 200,000 Akoya Pearls 'Worth Millions,' On Its Way To Houston …

Gold Jewelry Sales Are Up.
Free Market News Network, FL

Posted by Barry at 06:18 PM in Precious Metals
National Jeweler reports that despite rapidly rising gold prices, U.S. gold jewelry sales grew in terms of both dollar and unit sales for 2005, according to new statistics from a survey commissioned by the World Gold Council (WGC).

Dollar sales grew 4.4 percent for the year to a record $17.7 billion, the strongest growth for the category since 1999, according to the study, conducted for WGC by GfK Audits & Surveys. In the fourth quarter of 2005, gold jewelry sales rose 5 percent in dollar sales. Read more about Gold Jewelry Sales Are Up. …

Belk launches fine-jewelry acquisitions
Charlotte Business Journal, NC 

Belk Inc. has agreed to acquire the inventory and assets of Migerobe Inc., a Mississippi company that leases and operates fine-jewelry departments in 35 Belk stores.

The transaction is slated to close in August. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

In addition, Belk will begin operating 80 other fine-jewelry departments in its stores that are leased by Finlay Fine Jewelry Corp. of New York.

Belk will assume the management and operation of those departments early next year when Finlay’s lease agreement expires. Read more about Belk launches fine-jewelry acquisitions …