Jewelry Industry Blog

So you are thinking of starting your own retail jewelry business and you want to know what you can expect. Your biggest challenges on a day to day basis will usually be customers and suppliers. This seems pretty obvious but a retail jewelry business has different types of customer and supplier concerns that [...]

The internet has made the world a much smaller place and it has made doing business so much easier for so many people. These days the first place someone looks for suppliers to their business is on the internet and if you spend the time to do the necessary searches you can usually find [...]

Yellow gold has never completely fallen out of favor with the fashion crowd, but over the past decade the public took more of a shine to sterling silver and platinum. However, gold’s fortunes had already started to turn when it hit $1,000 an ounce in March.
Even as gold prices come back down, jewelers expect it [...]

Hipsters beware: That naval piercing or nose ring may be hazardous to your health. In rare cases, seizures, organ failure and even death can occur.
That is the message from the California Department of Toxic Substance Control, which is enforcing a new state law that regulates lead in jewelry, especially piercing jewelry.
That law went into effect [...]

New York – Two industry experts predicted gold prices would push past $1,100 an ounce in the coming year, fueled by a weak U.S. dollar and growing inflation fears.
GFMS Ltd. Research Director Philip Newman and Tim Dinneny, with metals trading and finance firm ScotiaMocatta, spoke on gold prices during The Plumb Club Forum, held Sunday [...]

Are you in search of a new kind of gift for your friend’s marriage party? Are you simply tired and irritated over the scanty option of selection? Whatever it is, but you have to go for another type of gifts, since you want to be different. If you are so determined why don’t you go [...]

Jewelry exports from Israel exceeded the $400 million level, reaching $410 million in 2007. This constitutes a 5% increase in comparison to 2006, when jewelry exports came to $390 million.Exports of non-embedded gold jewelry came to $176 million, constituting 43% of all jewelry exports. The export of jewelry embedded with diamonds and gemstones came to [...]