Jewelry Designer Trunkshows in Texas
Saturday’s trunk show will provide a one-on-one personal experience with the creator of this luxuriously bold jewelry collection whose celebrity fans include the likes of Elton John, Sylvester Stallone, Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba and Kate Bosworth - to name a few. It will also be a chance to see the latest of his [...]
Selling Jewelry Is Mostly Pitfalls, Not Much Glitter
IT may be a cameo handed down from your grandmother or your father’s 1940s Hamilton watch or a ring you bought years ago that you no longer wear and now want to sell. While buying jewelry, whether at department or specialty stores, craft fairs or on eBay, is quick and easy, selling it is often [...]
Jewelry chain all in the Dinh family
Between 1975 and 1979, Tien Dinh and Mui Luong tried unsuccessfully six times to escape from Vietnam with their six children.
Many escaping families split up hoping to improve the chances that at least some of them would make it, said son Hanh Dinh. “But my parents said, ‘Whoever God gave us is family. If we [...]
Chinese Jewelry Designer Gets Dolled Up For Nasdaq
What are the upscale Chinese doing with their newfound wealth? Recent new issues have offered many possibilities. There are hotels (Home Inns & Hotels HMIN), private schooling (New Oriental Education EDU), investment advice (Xinhua Finance Media XFML) and real estate (E-house Holdings EJ). Some of those stocks have done better than others, but Fuqi International [...]
Gold Jewelry Demand Reaches $14.5 Billion
Dollar demand for gold in the jewelry, retail investment, and industrial sectors all reached new heights in the second quarter of 2007, according to the World Gold Council. Global demand for gold jewelry showed the strongest surge, reaching a record $14.5 billion, 37 percent higher than the second quarter, 2006, with particular strength in China, [...]
Shopping for Gold in Egypt
Egypt has always been famous for gold. The skin of the ancient gods was said to have been made of gold, and so it was frequently used for making statues, but it was also used to gild various items, sometimes including entire building elements and of course, to make jewelry. Also, as [...]
Watch and Jewelry Industry Remember Ben Kasiser
In an unusual summer event, scores of watch, jewelry, and retail industry leaders gathered July 26 in New York City for a luncheon honoring the late Benjamin Kaiser, a watch and jewelry industry leader himself active in many trade organizations for almost a half-century, on the 10th anniversary of his death.
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