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Do Lab-Grown Diamonds Fit into Your Store?

Creating a brand in an emerging category isn’t simple.  A well-thought-out strategy reflects where the category and best consumers are going rather than the current environment.  It’s easy to make mistakes.  In the jewelry business, the diamond industry’s powers-that-be would like to define you as something less than mined diamonds. Don’t allow someone else to […]

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Three Jewelry Veterans Create Clean Origin For The Industry’s Millennial Future: Lab-Grown Diamonds Sold Online

Clean Origin is the digitally-native lab-grown diamond jewelry startup created by Alex Weindling, third-generation diamond merchant; Ryan Bonifacino, former CMO/Digital SVP Alex & Ani; and Terry Burman, former CEO Signet Jewelers, Sterling Jewelers and Zale Corporation.

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De Beers Launches Lab-Grown Diamonds: Response to Demand or Move to Dominate the Market?

After years of disavowing the authenticity of man-made diamonds grown in a laboratory, De Beers has suddenly seen the light and responded to consumer demand by offering a lab-grown diamond alternative under the Lightbox Jewelry name. That is what the company would have you believe in its recent announcement that advancements in technology have now made it […]

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Meet Alexandra Gucci Zarini, Keeping Alive Aldo’s Legacy With AGCF Luxury Fashion Brand

Gucci stands alongside other elite names in the luxury pantheon, such as Louis Vuitton, Dior, Hermès, Chanel and Cartier. However, under the ownership of luxury conglomerate Kering, the Gucci brand has taken quite a fall, unlike its luxury cohorts.  Gucci revenues dropped by nearly 30% over the past two years, from $10.9 billion (€10.5 billion) […]