CIBJO has launched a new informational website, called “What is a Diamond?” Its purpose is to inform consumers and members of the jewellery and gemstone industry about the precise terminology that should be used to describe both diamonds found in nature and diamond crystals created in a factory or laboratory.
The webinar looked at the promise that greater industry diversity offers jewellery design, the systemic difficulties faced by newcomers and the strategies required to remedy them.
CIBJO’s Pearl Commission has released the first edition of the CIBJO Guide for Classifying Natural Pearls and Cultured Pearls.
Emboldened by the pearl’s status as the world’s most popular biogenic material, visionary jewellery designers and manufacturers are aiming for a younger and more audacious consumer.
CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, pays tribute to Jose Hess, the world-renowned jewellery designer and beloved industry leader, who served as the organisation’s first American President from 1997 through 2000. He died peacefully at his home in St. Augustine, Florida, on February 9, 2021, at age 87.
How will the experience of the pandemic and its economic and social fallout have changed jewellery consumer motivations, and what must the industry do in order to adjust?
Recent technological advances promise to level the playing field. They raise the prospect of building a trade that is more robust and more competitive.
Gaetano Cavalieri, President of CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, has described as “profoundly important” the agreement in the United Kingdom between the National Association of Jewellers (NAJ) and UK Trading Standards, a British government service working to ensure that consumers are protected from unfair trading, to provide the Diamond Terminology Guideline the status of Primary Authority Advice.
CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, has participated in a special session of the United Nations General Assembly, which took place in New York on December 3 and 4, 2020, looking at the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people, societies and economies, and discussing the multifaceted and coordinated response required to address the crisis.
Strategies by which jewellery companies associate the products they design and sell with consumers’ emotions are the subject of the webinar.
