Rapaport Magazine Shifts Focus to the Holidays
The September issue looks at the spending trends, gemstones, and styles shaping retail shopping this festive season.
Category: Industry
How many of 2025’s diamond-industry-related events do you remember?
We asked the popular artificial intelligence (AI) platform to outline the significant developments expected next year.
What generated the greatest interest? The good, the bad and the synthetics.
India takes on role following year with repeat incumbent and conflict over position.
Terms that appeared most often in Rapaport’s newsfeed included “tariffs” and “De Beers.”
Rapaport’s Leah Meirovich and Joshua Freedman look back at 2025 in a special end-of-year episode.
Stolen diamonds, natural stones swapped for lab-grown, and armed robberies were some of this year’s shadier incidents.
Process, developed in 1990s to improve color, is in common use on inexpensive, widely available gemstones.
Longtime executive also worked for miner BHP Billiton, where he helped build up the company.
Outbound shipments down 7% for the month.
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