Editor’s Blog

Now comes the real test for Jason Holt’s apprenticeships vision

It was always an ambitious undertaking, trying to draw a single thread between dozens of craft skills and come up…

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Endless Jewelry’s new investors are a magic bullet…if it were needed

They always say ‘growing too fast’ can be the ruin of a business, and the former Pandora-man, Danish Jesper Nielsen,…

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Why you should join the Fairtrade goldsmiths scheme

One of the most frustrating things about CSR initiatives in any industry is the cost and effort involved in doing…

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UKTI? Now THAT is a useful brand partnership

Corporate tie-ups are normally so much hot air and uselessness. But IJL’s decision to partner with UK Trade & Investment…

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The luxury goods market is buoyant – it’s time to stop blaming the economy

When luxury goods giant LVMH announces that handbags and belts at £1000+ a piece are doing better than watches and…

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18 months is a swift turnaround to conjoin the two associations

Amongst the more sceptical jewellers out there, for a decade the subject of the trade associations merging has drawn sarcasm…

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Falling vacancy rates are yet another beam of light

Rather excitingly, this week brought the news that high street retail vacancy rates are at their lowest since June 2010…

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Optimistic students need to listen to the industry stalwarts

Young artists are naturally full of optimism. After all, they are pursuing their dreams, and if they don’t believe in…

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British jewellery needs plenty more of the Beaverbrooks attitude

So often when you attend a talk or seminar at the trade shows, or even at after-dinner speeches, there is…

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Mondaine finds British marketing device in John Lewis

The best marketing is that which doesn’t force the message down your throat. Better still, it should say something other than ‘buy…

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