Category: Jewelry

Adler’s Celebrates New Orleans with Fleur de Lys Collection of Fine Jewelry and Gifts – Opens New Baton Rouge Location
[Press Release] PR Web

Adler’s Jewelry New Orleans celebrates New Orleans with the Fleur de Lys collection of fine jewelry and gifts. Adler’s looks forward to the future as Coleman E. Adler & Sons opens its New Baton Rouge location.

New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) June 12, 2006 — http://www.adlersjewelry.com – Adler’s Jewelry, a leading purveyor of fine jewelry and gifts in the New Orleans and Gulf South Region, today announced the opening of their new Baton Rouge location. Read more about Adler’s Celebrates New Orleans with Fleur de Lys Collection of Fine Jewelry and Gifts – Opens New Baton Rouge Location …

Brazil’s Jewelry Exports +41% in First Quarter ’06
Diamonds.net, NY

(Rapaport…BNamericas) Exports from Brazil’s jewelry industry are expected to reach $1 billion in 2006, Natália Salomão, marketing and communications manager of the country’s gems and jewelry trade association IBGM told BNamericas.

Exports include uncut and cut gems. “By comparison exports last year came in at $834 million,” Salomão said.

In the first four months of 2006 jewelry exports came in at $335 million, up 41 percent year-over-year, Salomão said Read more about Brazil's Jewelry Exports +41% in First Quarter '06 …

Shop at Home to Jewelry Box?
Multichannel News (subscription), NY

Jewelry Television is finalizing a deal to purchase some assets of Shop at Home, the home-shopping network that The E.W. Scripps Co. is pulling the plug on June 22, officials from both channels confirmed Monday.

Jewelry, based in Knoxville, Tenn., is most interested in Shop at Home assets such as satellite-uplink facilities, computer systems and Internet platforms. Nashville, Tenn.-based Shop at Home also owns TV stations with four broadcast studios that Jewelry is interested in as locations for promotional-video production. Read more about Shop at Home to Jewelry Box? …

Vershbow’s Art Gets Korean Touch
Korea Times, South Korea
By Yoon Won-sup
Staff Reporter

Artists traveling to a foreign country can seldom help allowing that country to influence their work. Such is the case with Lisa Vershbow, a metalsmith, sometimes better known as the wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Seoul, Alexander Vershbow.
“New Korean influences, such as jade and bamboo leaves, are beginning to surface in my work,’’ she said last Wednesday during a presentation of her works before students and professors at the Sun Gallery in Insa-dong, Seoul, where her exhibition is being held. Read more about Vershbow’s Art Gets Korean Touch …

Attorney and jewelry designer
They Love
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Laurie Warshawsky
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH

Attorney and jewelry designer (elle-a-belledesigns.com)
What’s playing on your car stereo right now? XM Satellite Radio BPM-Channel 81.
Most embarrassing thing in your CD collection? “John Denver’s Greatest Hits” — except I secretly love it!

Worst household chore? Cleaning the bathroom.

Movies you’ve walked out of? “Chicken Little,” “Secret Window” (but I love Johnny Depp.)

Do you collect anything? Beads, beads and more beads.

What’s always in your refrigerator? Milk, cheese. Read more about Attorney and jewelry designer …

Jewelry TV aims to buy Shop At Home
By CARLY HARRINGTON, harringtonc@knews.com
June 8, 2006/Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription), TN

Knoxville-based Jewelry Television is acquiring the assets of the struggling Shop At Home network.
The deal, which has not been finalized, will help Jewelry Television meet its growth goals, spokeswoman Kelly Fletcher said.

“From a technology standpoint, it was too good of a deal to pass up,” she said.

The E. W. Scripps Co. announced last month that it planned to close the Nashville-based network, which was founded in Newport in 1986 to sell satellite equipment to satellite TV viewers. Read more about Jewelry TV aims to buy Shop At Home …

The Guy Behind Gem Jewelry Takes On Weaver – And Wins!
Hartford Courant, United States

Stanley Frank is nervous. Neither he nor his wife, Jean, slept the night before. In a few minutes, he will tell his life story to 300 battle-hardened, world-weary ninth-graders at Hartford’s Weaver High School. The notecards he holds are a thin shield against failure.

Seated with him in the principal’s office, Patricia Nelson, the school’s lead guidance counselor, commiserates. As many times as she’s stood before the students, she still gets butterflies.

With them is Frank’s wife, the gracious Jean. She reminds him that he is a good speaker. Read more about The Guy Behind Gem Jewelry Takes On Weaver – And Wins! …

WDC PARTICIPANTS INVITED TO JOVELLA JEWELRY TRADE FAIR
Tacy, Israel/8 June 2006

Participants in the World Diamond Congress, to be held in Tel Aviv from June 26 – 29, will also be able to take in the latest innovations on the Israeli and international jewelry scene. Jovella 2006, Israel’s International Jewelry Trade Fair, will be held during the Congress, from June 27 – 28 at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv.

Exhibiting in Jovella will be 160 jewelry manufacturers and designers, diamond and gemstone suppliers and related companies from Israel, Italy, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Thailand, Brazil and China. Over 10,000 visitors — from the trade and the public – from Israel and from abroad, are expected to attend the show. Read more about WDC PARTICIPANTS INVITED TO JOVELLA JEWELRY TRADE FAIR …

Polished jewelry beads with 32 facets
Global Sources, Singapore

China (mainland) – Hangzhou Alp Import & Export Co. Ltd is offering model 1, jewelry beads in a polished finish.

The products are made of acrylic and have 32 facets. They are available with round or pointed edges. Versions measuring 4 and 6mm in diameter are also offered.

Buyers’ specifications on the size and color are accepted. Read more about Polished jewelry beads with 32 facets …

The Jewelry Factory in Norristown to Become a Jewelry Exchange
Market Wire (press release)

TUSTIN, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 06/07/2006 — The Jewelry Factory in Norristown is changing their name to the “Jewelry Exchange.” The store remains under the same ownership. The Jewelry Exchange is the nation’s leading chain of independent jewelry stores, and operates in about 60% of the country under that name. In some cities, the company operates under the name the “Jewelry Factory” or the “Jewelry Source.”

The company decided to rename the store in Norristown in order to solidify the brand name and eliminate any confusion in the marketplace. The name change takes effect on June 8, 2006 Read more about The Jewelry Factory in Norristown to Become a Jewelry Exchange …