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Diamonds From Remains & Breast Milk Jewellery – Ultimate Expressions of Emotion?

Diamonds From Remains & Breast Milk Jewellery – Ultimate Expressions of Emotion?

Jewellery has always been the epitomising symbol of love between two people â€“ spouses; lovers; a mother and child; dear friends. Family heirloom jewellery, for example, represents a strong connection with our ancestors. But, just when we think we know how strong the emotional significance of jewellery can be, technology

Why You Need To Take Your Jewellery Business Online

Why You Need To Take Your Jewellery Business Online

Today, India’s e-commerce sector is attracting a steady stream of venture capital and investor funds. One of the hottest news in the gems and jewellery circuit is the fact that Ratan Tata has recently made a sizable personal investment in Bluestone, the 3-year young Indian e-commerce jewellery company. Too

Expand Your Market – Demographically and Culturally

Expand Your Market – Demographically and Culturally

If you have a successful jewellery manufacturing or retail business in a specific niche, perhaps it’s time you expand into new demographic and cultural markets to help your business evolve and grow. Getting into a new market segment or geography requires a lot of market research and testing. The

Professionalizing the Family Business

Professionalizing the Family Business

To professionalize is to put into place a professional structure for a body and its processes. After a family business grows past a certain size, the very strengths that worked to the advantage of the entrepreneurial management set-up often start to hinder management and further growth. Most family-run enterprises begin

Can Honesty have Positive Effects on your Health

Can Honesty have Positive Effects on your Health

Recent news articles point out cases of lab-grown diamonds being sold to unsuspecting customers as the more expensive mined diamond. And that is cause for concern for the gem industry as well as for consumers. Dishonesty never did anyone any lasting good. Perhaps many people would agree that the long-term

Make a Commitment to Uphold High Ethical Standards

Make a Commitment to Uphold High Ethical Standards

The great Aristotle once said, "Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all". From blood diamonds to mining with cyanide, from the high energy-consumption of mining activities to dangerous working environments for miners and labourers - In the world of gems and jewellery, the

After Sales Service Is the Key to Customer Retention

After Sales Service Is the Key to Customer Retention

It is much easier to retain a customer than it is to acquire a new one, so, every retailer must pay adequate attention to after-sales service. According to the findings of the American Express Customer Service Barometer, 77% of Indian consumers say they will not make a repeat purchase or

A Touch of Grace

A Touch of Grace

A couple of years ago I was on a long-haul flight. There was nothing unusual about it but it is highlighted in my memory because of a stewardess whose caring and cheerful attitude never changed even when faced with the most demanding of passengers. Her graciousness touched us all, resulting

Leadership Lessons We Should Learn From Narendra Modi’s Governance of Gujarat

Leadership Lessons We Should Learn From Narendra Modi’s Governance of Gujarat

What Narendra Modi will be able to do for India, as Prime Minister, remains to be seen. As we pen this article, we are awaiting the recently elected BJP-led Government’s impending Budget delivery. But, what the man who has famously stated “There’s no alternative to good governance”, has

Packaging of Jewellery – Offer the Complete Package... The Complete Experience!

Packaging of Jewellery – Offer the Complete Package... The Complete Experience!

Indian jewellery manufacturing companies have achieved great heights with regard to product manufacturing. However, in the area of packaging their jewellery products, many remain largely lagging behind. No one would argue that attractive packaging, especially for gift purchases, is an absolute must. But, the attention we pay to packaging of

The Importance of Skill Development & Training for Employees of Jewellery Design & Manufacturing

The Importance of Skill Development & Training for Employees of Jewellery Design & Manufacturing

As the saying goes: “You are only as strong as your weakest link”. With the fast pace at which developments take place in the jewellery manufacturing industry, how else can we all keep up but to undertake periodical skill development and training. Apart from upgrading technology, tools and materials, companies

Raise the Quality Bar of Jewellery Manufacturing

Raise the Quality Bar of Jewellery Manufacturing

In the words of Aristotle, “Quality is not an act, it is a habit”. And, in the context of jewellery manufacturing, as with every other playing turf, a commitment to consistent quality is bound to yield remarkable long-term rewards. GemAtlas met up with the Menda brothers of ‘Studio Reves’ fame

How to Make Your Meetings More Productive

How to Make Your Meetings More Productive

As the saying goes - "Time is Money" . And so, the more time you and your staff spend on meetings that achieve little, the more precious man-hours are lost. The following are a few tips to make your meetings more productive. Pre Meeting: 1) Define the Goals of

Service Departments Are a Necessity for Jewellery Retailers

Service Departments Are a Necessity for Jewellery Retailers

It's ever so easy for us as jewellery retailers to bow, courtesy and roll out the red carpet for people we think are potential buyers at our retail outlets, but why do we make people feel so ill-at-ease when they walk in with jewellery that needs servicing, repairs,

Gems – A Spiritual Perspective

Gems – A Spiritual Perspective

Welcome to the Portal of discovering your in-built, innate spirituality – practical, feasible and such fun to live! Here’s to discovering your inborn beauty… just like it is drawn out from a gem. A while ago, I visited a friend who from early childhood would accompany his father to his

How to Be Happy at Your Workplace

How to Be Happy at Your Workplace

We spend most of our waking hours at our workplace, so, if we don’t manage to be happy there, we probably won’t manage to be happy at all! If you planned your career-path well in advance, and didn’t just go with the flow, chances are that you

Handling of Diamonds & Gems in Jewellery Manufacture

Handling of Diamonds & Gems in Jewellery Manufacture

Who would benefit from the gem knowledge? Those who play active, responsible and profitable part handling gems in the jewellery manufacturing need this knowledge. The potential for damage depends on the different characteristics of gemstones, such as mechanical resistance, chemical resistance, thermal stability, stability of colour and the way in

Diamonds: Mined and Lab Grown–Two Sides of the Same Coin

Diamonds: Mined and Lab Grown–Two Sides of the Same Coin

Diamonds: Mined and Lab Grown–Two Sides of the Same Coin For centuries, just as ardently as Alchemists have endeavoured to conjure up a formula for producing gold, scientists have attempted to make diamonds in laboratories. Industrialists everywhere were, to say the least, tipping off their hats to GE, when

Where does colour in DIAMONDS come from?

Where does colour in DIAMONDS come from?

What are Coloured Diamonds? Coloured diamonds come in all different colours with as many hues and intensities as nature can muster. It is not only the trace minerals that determine gem colour, but also the dissimilarity in the amount of pressure to produce the coloured diamonds. At times the radiation

Diamond Jewellery – A luxurious Dream

Diamond Jewellery – A luxurious Dream

I talk of diamonds being a luxurious dream because ever since my initiation into the Diamond and Diamond Jewellery business, from being a rank outsider, a geek who was into computers, I have always seen and heard everyone talk of the Diamond Dream and Diamonds & Diamond Jewellery being the