More than five hundred members of the Palanpuri Jain community and other well-wishers from various cities across India and the world came to Palanpur on January 6th and 7th 2018 to attend…
US-based brand strategist DAN SCOTT touches upon various aspects of the American jewellery industry – last-minute holiday shoppers who helped spike 2017 US jewellery sales, DPA’s efforts to attract the millennial with…
Tell us a little about yourself and your brand that was established in 1930. My grandfather Manohar Lal Sarraf ji started this venture in 1930 along with his uncle as a partner.…
Gold slithered in early December to a five-month low ahead of the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, when the Fed announced the intention to raise the fed funds target rate…
ABN Amro announced on November 30th, 2017 that its Diamond & Jewellery Clients (D&JC) will become part of Trade & Commodity Finance (TCF) within ABN Amro’s Commercial & Institutional Banking business. The…
De Beers announced that its auction sales business is to transition Fixed-Price Forward Contracts to core business status, following the success of the pilot programme that was launched in January 2017. Fixed-Price…
Rapaport Group announced the sale of the 709-carat Sierra Leone Peace Diamond, the 14th largest diamond ever discovered, to the House of Graff for $6,536,360. The diamond was found by a group…
Auction house Sotheby’s appointed Laurence Nicolas as executive vice president, global managing director, jewellery and watches – a position at the junction of two of Sotheby’s fastest growing categories. Nicolas will join…
The Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE), a Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) platform, confirmed that Peter Meeus will step down as chairman as of January 31st, 2018. Ahmed Bin Sulayem, executive chairman, DMCC,…
De Beers announced three changes to its executive committee. Neil Ventura, currently executive vicepresident, auction sales, will become executive vicepresident, strategy and innovation; Paul Rowley, currently executive vice-president, global sightholder sales, will…