CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, has announced that its annual congress, which this year was scheduled to have taken place in Dubai, UAE, October 5 to 7, will be postponed to 2021, as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Fair organisers were considering their strategic positions before COVID-19 struck. Technological developments had usurped elements of the traditional trade show model.
The webinar looks at the challenges facing the industry as it returns to business, and more specifically considers what can be done to raise and then maintain demand in what remains a global health crisis.
With disruptions in the supply chain caused by lockdowns, mining houses supplying raw materials to the jewellery industry have selected to curtail or reduce production, while at the same taking measures to protect the health of their workforces.
To what degree will issues of sustainability, social responsibility and responsible sourcing practices in the jewellery industry be more relevant in the world that emerges after the COVID crisis.
The webinar examines how COVID-19 is transforming the jewellery and gemstone business technologically, and how it may become one of the seminal events of the 21st Century.
The second edition of Jewellery Industry Voices considered the subjects that must be addressed in planning a lockdown exit strategy, including ways of operating businesses while maintaining social distancing,
As we enter what for many is a second month of economic lockdown and social isolation, jewellery businesses throughout the supply chain are looking for solutions. There is a growing realization that that the industry as we knew will be inexorably changed, but first it is necessary to keep one’s head above water.
With the international jewellery and gemstone industry grappling with the challenge of a worldwide economic shutdown, instituted by governments in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, CIBJO has announced that it will no longer be charging for downloads of its Blue Book series of industry standards and nomenclature.
Historically, international crises have been inflection points in the human experience, and the COVID-19 epidemic is likely to be one of the most transformative in living memory.
