We recently ran a very informative piece by IDEX Online Research Analyst Ken Gassman in which he examined the potential jewelry selling landscape following the United States Supreme Court’s decision... Read More...

It's about all of five minutes since I last wrote about marketing to Millennial shoppers, but yet another report has come out on the subject, and I just can’t stop myself.   Read More...

It’s summer, and judging by the number of “out of office” messages I keep receiving, I am one of the few people not indulging in a summer vacation... Read More...

“De Beers Does Not Feel the Love.” This is quite a puzzling subhead that appears on a note by RBC Capital Markets analyst Des Kilalea to Anglo American shareholders... Read More...

I used to love bashing De Beers, and if you read through the archive of the many articles I have written in the past, you will see that I did so with fervor. Read More...

Of course, you cannot believe everything you read in the papers, and what you see on television is just as likely to be based on myth as reality... Read More...

Newsweek recently ran an article that I found quite condescending. Titled “Women are no longer waiting for men to shower them with gems,”... Read More...

There’s been a lot of talk in the jewelry and diamond industry about how to reach Millennials, a group of 77 million young American consumers – just under a quarter of the US population Read More...

Anyone else confused? It turns out that all this marketing to Millennials and putting the young, hip, technologically savvy consumers in a special (and exalted) category of their own might not be as wise as marketers have led us all to believe. Read More...

In the fall of last year, Antwerp’s International Gemological Institute (IGI) encountered multiple submissions for grading reports of a number of large temporary color enhanced stones... Read More...