Trendy suburbanites are gathering to sell unwanted jewelry

Teri Davis sipped red wine from a glass painted with colorful palm trees, chatted with friends and snacked from platters of food on a nearby counter. But her attention kept turning to the kitchen table, to a group of partygoers Tiffany and co waiting their turns to pull out bags, boxes or Ziploc baggies of [...]

2009 U.S. Jewelry & Silverware Manufacturing Industry Report

The U.S. buy tiffany Jewelry & Silverware Manufacturing Industry report, published annually, contains timely and accurate industry statistics, forecasts and demographics. The report features 2009 current and 2010 forecast estimates on the size of the industry (sales, establishments, employment) nationally and for all 50 U.S. States and over 900 metro areas. The report also includes [...]

With gold prices up, jewelry sales slump

In 1983, the country was recovering from a recession, unemployment was at 10 percent and gold prices were double what they had been five years earlier — but Joseph Lisitzky was still selling a good number of gold rings and watches out of his downtown Miami buy tiffany jewelry store. Twenty-six years later, the simultaneous [...]

Style Makers; Beppe Modenese, Jewelry Designer

Beppe Modenese was reminiscing last month in his well-appointed office in the Tiffany and co Milan Fair. “We were four brothers, and it was the dream of my mother that one would be a doctor, one a lawyer, one a pharmacist, one an artist,” he said in a brief hiatus from work as an administrator [...]

Coral Reinterpreted Jewelry Collection Set to Launch

NEW YORK, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ — Beginning February 26, 2009, designers will be buy tiffany offering coral alternatives that are perfect gifts for those that love the ocean. To help raise awareness of the threats corals face and the need for immediate action to protect these vulnerable marine animals, renowned designers Hannah Garrison of AZU, [...]

DESIGNER OF JEWELRY MAKE LOVE BRACELET

Aldo Cipullo, a Tiffany and co jewelry designer who was perhaps best known for the Love Bracelet he designed for Cartier that locks around the wearer’s wrist, died Tuesday at St. Vincent’s Hospital after suffering two heart attacks Sunday. He was 42 years old and lived in Manhattan. The bracelet was Mr. Cipullo’s first design [...]

Spotting opportunities in emerging markets

One could argue that the jewelry industry was a vehicle for globalization long before the term came into vogue. After all, the modern jewelry business has its roots in the colonial era, when gem merchants from Europe combed Africa, Asia and the New World in search of rough material that they eventually brought back to [...]

Second teen arrested in jewelry store robbery

The second man wanted for his alleged involvement in the armed robbery of Eden tiffany and co Jewelry last month was arrested late Wednesday in Eden. Antoine Lanier Hall, 19, of Albert St., Danville, was returned to Burlington early Thursday and charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon and second-degree kidnapping. He is in Alamance [...]

Woman arrested in Green Tree jewelry theft

A Pittsburgh woman wanted for stealing jewelry from someone who stopped to help her was arrested Tuesday by sheriff’s deputies, Allegheny County Sheriff William P. Mullen said. Jennifer Leasa, 38, whose profile appeared on Comcast Cable’s Fugitive Files, is charged with robbery for the incident that occurred on Aug. 25 along East Carson Street in [...]

Collectors Universe Leaves Jewelry Business

Collectors Universe is leaving the jewelry grading business and will no longer own the two labs it spent millions on in 2005 and 2006-GCAL (Gem Certification and Appraisal Lab) for diamonds, and AGL (American Gemological Laboratory) for colored stones. Collectors Universe said jewelry grading revenues were down 25 per-cent in the second quarter of 2009, [...]