Rio Tinto to Hold Symposium for U.S. Diamond Jewelry Market

Rio Tinto Diamonds will hold its inaugural jewelry business development symposium and design showcase in Chicago on July 16-18, the company announced Monday. The symposium aims to build better relationships throughout the diamond pipeline and provide a collaborative forum for understanding key issues facing today’s diamond jewelry businesses.

Attending the symposium and design showcase will be many of Rio Tinto’s Select Diamantaires, the company stated, as well as top U.S. jewelry retailers and jewelry buying groups.

“We are seeing both cyclical and structural changes in the U.S. , the world’s largest retail diamond jewelry market, and this will be an important forum to put these changes in context for our customers and our customers’ customers,” said Jean-Marc Lieberherr, general manager of diamonds sales and marketing.

Rio Tinto’s Select Diamantaires will use the symposium to showcase their latest designs to top U.S. retailers.