{"id":2648,"date":"2021-10-25T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cibjo.org\/rrg\/?page_id=2648"},"modified":"2021-10-25T14:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T12:31:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cibjo.org\/rrg\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:20px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" 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fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>The <strong>CIBJO Retailer&#8217;s Reference Guide<\/strong> was first released as a printed book in 2011, as an in-store resource for sales staff in retail jewellery stores. It was explicitly designed provide them a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental elements of diamonds, gemstones, pearls and precious metals, with goal that the knowledge be used to educate, inform and inspire jewellery consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The updated edition of the CIBJO Retailer&#8217;s Reference Guide, released in November 2021, is has been produced in all-digital format. Comprising a set of interactive PDFs, all of which can be downloaded free of charge, is has two sections: A quick reference guide called <strong>Key Facts<\/strong>, and five chapters, covering the key jewellery elements in greater detail, namely <strong>Diamonds<\/strong>, <strong>Gemstones<\/strong>, <strong>Pearls<\/strong>, <strong>Precious Metals<\/strong> and <strong>Responsible Sourcing<\/strong>. The chapter on Responsible Sourcing is new addition to the Guide, although all the richly illustrated section have updated.<\/p>\n<p>The new edition of the <strong>CIBJO Retailer&#8217;s Reference Guide, <\/strong>like the first edition, was compiled, edited and produced by CIBJO&#8217;s Marketing and Education Commission, headed by Jonathan Kendall, working in close collaboration with the President of CIBJO&#8217;s Sector A, Roland Naftule.<\/p>\n<p>The Marketing &amp; Education Commission would like to thank:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ken Scarratt and Shigeru Akamatsu of the CIBJO Pearl Commission for the text and image development of the Pearl chapter<\/li>\n<li>Huw Daniel and Fran\u00e7oise Izaute for all of their help and support on the Precious Metals chapter \u2022<\/li>\n<li>Udi Sheintal and Jean-Pierre Chalain for all of their help and support on the Diamond chapter<\/li>\n<li>Robert Weldon, Director of the GIA library, Jonathan Muyal, Orasa Weldon and other GIA staff members for the text and images of the Gemstone chapter<\/li>\n<li>Philip Olden for the text and images of the Responsible Sourcing chapter<\/li>\n<li>Rui Galopim de Carvalho, Thomas Lind and G\u00e9rard Grospiron, CIBJO Sector A Vice-Presidents for reviewing the text of the document<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other jewellery industry figures who provided key support\u00a0 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susan Jacques, GIA President<\/li>\n<li>Douglas Hucker, AGTA CEO<\/li>\n<li>Michael Krzemnicki and Laurent Cartier of the Swiss Gemmological Institute, SSEF<\/li>\n<li>Hanco Zwann, Netherlands Gemmological Laboratory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-3{width:66.666666666667% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-3 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 2.88%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 2.88%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-3{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-3 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-3{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-3 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-3{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:20px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cibjo.org\/rrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cibjo.org\/rrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cibjo.org\/rrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cibjo.org\/rrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cibjo.org\/rrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cibjo.org\/rrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/cibjo.org\/rrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2648\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cibjo.org\/rrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}