Jewelers Circular Keystone articles from December 2007

Jewelers Circular Keystone archives from December 2007

The Year in Review.(briefs)
December 1, 2007... By JCK Staff Here, as reported in JCK, are the top news stories of 2007. January Donna Baker , who was appointed acting president of the Gemological Institute of America after William E. Boyajian resigned in May 2006, became GIA's...

From the JCKonline Blogs.
December 1, 2007... Staff Style 360 Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the American Heart Association's 5k Heartwalk at Rocky Neck State Park in Connecticut. - At the Heartwalk, a towering poster showed the Red Dress-the symbol of AHA's Go...

Leviev, Tiffany on Namibian Sightholder List.
December 1, 2007... By Rob Bates Lev Leviev's LLD and Tiffany are among the companies receiving sights for their Namibian factories in the first direct allocations from DTC Namibia. DTC Namibia is the new De Beers subsidiary that distributes diamonds from...

De Beers Antitrust Forms to Arrive Dec. 21.
December 1, 2007... By Rob Bates Claim forms for industry members to receive cash from the De Beers class-action lawsuit will be published Dec. 21, according to Jewelers Vigilance Committee. On Dec. 28, written notice about the claim form will be mailed...

DTC Prepares 'Support' for Ex-Sightholders.(Diamond Trading Company)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... By Rob Bates The Diamond Trading Company has launched a Sightholder Support Programme for companies that don't get allocations under the revised client list it will announce this month. A brochure describing the program, distributed at...

Might 'World's Largest Diamond' Still Exist?(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... By Rob Bates The man who acted as the spokesman for the alleged 8,000 ct. stone billed as the world's largest diamond still believes it exists-despite a bizarre incident where the people who promised to show him the diamond instead...

Rapaport 'Disappointed' With Auction Results.
December 1, 2007... By Rob Bates Martin Rapaport called results from the first Internet diamond auction 'disappointing,' with only 27 of 210 lots sold. The auctions are meant to build an index for a proposed futures contract. (See 'Back to the Futures,' JCK ,...

Trend Alert.
December 1, 2007... By Jennifer Heebner Who doesn't love animals? The unconditional love and endless photo opportunities that pets provide should be enough to melt the hardest heart. And because jewelry designers love their own pets, their preferences are...

Right on Target.
December 1, 2007... By Jennifer Heebner and Carrie Soucy Los Angeles-based Dominique Cohen, known for luscious gems set in 18k gold, recently launched a 44-piece line of costume jewelry for Target. Like Cohen's precious jewelry, designs for Target are...

Green Gems for a Red Planet.
December 1, 2007... By Gary Roskin, G.G., FGA Los Alamos National Laboratory has requested crystals of Chatham Created Emerald for use in a scientific instrument that will analyze minerals on Mars during NASA's next mission to the Red Planet, scheduled for...

Pearlez-Vous Français?
December 1, 2007... By Gary Roskin, G.G., FGA If you missed 'Pearls, a Natural History' at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, you can still catch it-in Paris. The exhibit will run through March 10 at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle....

Dubai and China Join Forces.
December 1, 2007... By Gary Roskin, G.G., FGA Dubai Multi Commodities Centre has announced it will build industry-specific trade relations with the Hong Kong Gemstone Manufacturers' Association in the colored stones and pearls sector. DMCC and HKGMA will...

Bendheim Leaves Colibri.(Thomas Bendheim resigned from The Colibri Group and appoints Jim Fleet )(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... By William George Shuster Thomas Bendheim, president and chief executive officer of The Colibri Group, has left the company, due to 'differences of opinion on the future direction of the company,' according to a brief statement from the...

Tiffany's New Stores Will Increase U.S. Presence.
December 1, 2007... By Rob Bates Tiffany is introducing a new store concept that will more than double the number of stores it has in the United States. The new, smaller-format stores will occupy approximately 2,000 square feet and offer standard Tiffany...

Alarama Purchased by Buffett Group.
December 1, 2007... By Rob Bates Jewelry manufacturer Alarama was recently purchased by The Richline Group, the new company controlled by famed billionaire investor Warren Buffett's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway. Richline purchased Bel Oro and...

Two Big Diamond Miners May Merge.
December 1, 2007... By Staff BHP Billiton, owner of the Ekati Mine in Canada's Northwest Territories, has made an offer to acquire Rio Tinto, which owns Australia's Argyle Mine and Zimbabwe's Murowa Mine and sells diamonds from Diavik, the other mine in the...

WJA's West Coast Conference Looks 'Outside the Box'.(Conference news)
December 1, 2007... By Natalie Zacharia More than 100 jewelry professionals from around the country attended the Women's Jewelry Association's first Women in the Know West Coast Conference on Sept. 8 in Anaheim, Calif., learning about entrepreneurship,...

Audemars Piguet Makes Time for Bill Clinton.
December 1, 2007... By William George Shuster Swiss luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet and former President Bill Clinton, representing his William J. Clinton Foundation, in October unveiled the new Clinton Foundation Equation of Time watch. To honor the...

Four Points Goes Chapter 11.
December 1, 2007... By Rob Bates Four Points Corp., the Louisville, Ky.-based chain that owns 30 Brendan Jewelers stores in eight states and others under the name JC Keepsake, has filed for Chapter 11. Assets are $26.8 million, debt is $52.1 million,...

H.Stern Jewelry Founder Dies.
December 1, 2007... By Staff Hans Stern, founder and chairman of the board of H.Stern Jewelers, died in late October at age 85. Stern, born in Essen, Germany, in 1922, emigrated to Brazil with his family in 1939. He founded H.Stern in the 1940s, at first...

Jacob the Jeweler Pleads Guilty.
December 1, 2007... By Staff Celebrity jeweler Jacob Arabov, of New York's Jacob & Co., has pleaded guilty to falsifying records and giving false statements to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring, the Associated Press reports. Arabov will serve...

Newswire.
December 1, 2007... By Staff GIA Elects New Governors Staff The Gemological Institute of America has elected Dione D. Kenyon and Frederick N. Levinger to its board of governors. Kenyon is president and chief executive officer of Jewelers Board of...

Tsukahara Remains Antiquorum CEO.
December 1, 2007... By William George Shuster John Yo Tsukahara will remain Antiquorum S.A.'s chief executive officer well into 2008. JCK 's Oct. 31 disclosure was later confirmed by ArtistHouse Holdings, which owns 50 percent of the international auction...