CEO Dan Mano explains why RapNet became Rapaport Trade – and how the Price List will become truly transparent.
The world’s largest polished manufacturer has adopted a sales model that mushroomed in popularity during the market downturn.
Andrew Rickard, president of the Jewelers Board of Trade, stresses the importance of checking customers’ credentials.
The show reflected a split diamond market: Demand for long fancies and large round stones was solid amid slow trading in bread-and-butter goods.
1-carat RAPI down 0.3% in June.
Nilesh Chhabria of Finestar Jewellery & Diamonds addresses trends at the recent Las Vegas fair.
Trade members and consumers were overwhelmingly unimpressed with the latest ads.
Diamond trade gathered in New York to discuss marketing, lab-grown diamonds and traceability.
HRD Antwerp will still issue reports for mounted stones in jewelry.
The trade seems split on recent campaigns that shine a negative light on lab-grown.
Pforzheim-based designer Katharina Junkert tells the story of the city’s manufacturing hub.