While IDEX Online’s main focus is its diamond trading platform, the company also provides an extensive selection of news, analysis and written content, making it the first place to turn to for keeping up with everything going on in the diamond industry, from mining to retail.

 

IDEX Online is the one industry resource where you can read articles and analysis from not just one but two of the businesses’ “biggest names:” Chaim Even-Zohar and Ken Gassman.

 

Chaim, a leading industry journalist and consultant, provides a weekly article that addresses the most important events taking place in the diamond trade. He is not afraid to tackle the most controversial and complicated stories and through his diligent and intensive research, he has bought crucial information about many subjects, certificate scandals and financial frauds to name just a couple of examples, to light, for the benefit of everyone in the industry.

 

Chaim has been associated with diamonds since the early 1970s, when he arranged the Israeli government's rough diamond purchases from the U.S. Strategic Stockpile. Thereafter, he served as deputy director-general of the governmental Pituach Diamond Corporation, acquiring rough from Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Liberia, South Africa, Guinea, the UK and Belgium. After a short stint as a manager at a bank's diamond branch, he turned to journalism and consulting and established his own companies.

 

While Chaim keeps his eye on ensuring the industry stays on the straight and narrow, or at least reporting about it when it strays, Ken utilizes his extraordinary love of data to cover the retail side of the industry from a numerical perspective. Ken has been involved in the jewelry industry for almost 30 years. During a 20-year career as a Wall Street investment banker from 1981 through 2001, he worked with retailers and consumer goods producers, including virtually all of the companies in the global jewelry and diamond industry. He facilitated various transactions involving jewelry companies, including bringing Reeds Jewelers public, buying and selling various jewelry and diamond companies, and producing research on the global industry.  

 

As Ken will tell you, he "flunked retirement." After his official retirement in 2001, he was prevailed upon by many in the jewelry and diamond industry to continue to produce research and analysis, both on public companies as well as broad industry trends. Ken's goal is to make complex financial and business operating metrics understandable for everyone.  

 

IDEX Online News

An integral part of the IDEX Online services, the news team, headed by Edahn Golan, provides up-to-date reports and breaking news, which covers all the important happenings and developments throughout the entire industry – from mining to retail.

 

The quick and fact oriented news is anchored by the in-depth analysis and heady editorials that provide a deeper look into the events that shape and influence our industry.

 

Considering an essential service to the global diamond industry, IDEX Online provides the news coverage free of charge.

 

The latest news stories are found on the IDEX Online homepage. For a historical perspective, readers can head to the online news archive and browse all the news dating back to our formation – by date, keyword or subject.

 

If you want to draw our attention to an event, an activity of your company or an issue that you feel needs to be discussed publicly, feel free to call our office or send an email to news@idexonline.com We promise to seriously consider every story.

 

The IDEX Online Newsletter

The IDEX Online Newsletter is a weekly publication that provides a selection of the most important stories of the week, ideal for readers who prefer to get their news in one large dose. The newsletter is sent via email. To sign up for the weekly mailing, send an email to newsletter@idexonline.com with the subject “subscribe.”

 

The Diamond Intelligence Briefs

The Diamond Intelligence Briefs (commonly referred to as the DIB). It provides first-hand reports and a unique perspective of the crucial issues facing the diamond industry written by leading industry analyst Chaim Even-Zohar.

 

The DIB’s hallmark is the exclusive information and distinctive glimpses into the inner workings of forces shaping our industry and has access to many original source documents. Its readership is the leading diamond industry executives who wish to remain steps ahead of the competition.

 

The DIB is a weekly publication emailed to its own subscriber base. To find out about subscribing, email dib@idexonline.com

 

IDEX Magazine

IDEX Magazine is renowned throughout the industry for covering every aspect of the diamond and jewelry trade pipeline. Edited by Danielle Max, the magazine comprises a lively mixture of trade news, fashion, retail stories, in-depth analysis, commentary and opinion.

 

Each month, the magazine examines a relevant subject in an extended series of articles known as the Focus. Past issues have focused on women in the industry, corporate social responsibility, trade shows, security and insurance, gemstones and grading laboratories.

 

 The magazine is always looking for opinions and stories contributed by our readers. If you have something pressing or important you would like the industry to know about, please feel free to email danielle.max@idexonline.com

  

IDEX Magazine is available free to all IDEX Online subscribers. If you are not already an IDEX Online member, contact your local sales service branch to find out how you can join and enjoy your monthly copy of the magazine.

 

Selected articles from the current magazine are accessible via the IDEX Online homepage. A magazine archive is accessible to all readers – not just IDEX Online members. Navigate to “News” in the top brown menu bar and click on IDEX Magazine.

 

IDEX Magazine (Russian Version)

Distributed in the countries of the former Soviet Union, including Armenia, Latvia and Georgia. IDEX Magazine (Russian Version) takes the best of IDEX Magazine and brings it to a Russian-speaking audience, with articles specially selected for this unique market.

 

The Magazine was established in September 2007 and has brought IDEX Online’s innovative and informative editorial content to an even wider circulation.

 

To obtain copy of IDEX Magazine (Russian Version), or to advertise in the Russian version, contact your local sales service branch.

 

The IDEX Online Market Report

If you want to keep up-to-date with what is going on in the major trading markets, the IDEX Online Market Report provides extensive coverage in an easy to understand format.

 

Each week, we speak to traders in the “field” to gather up-to-the-minute details about the status of the international markets as seen through the changing buying and selling patterns of particular diamond categories, both rounds and fancy cuts.

 

The IDEX Online Market Report is available free of charge on the IDEX Online website. A new report is posted on the website’s homepage each Thursday that the markets are in operation.