Monthly Archives: January 2010
Fast-Fashion Retailers Outpace Competitors
Fast-fashion specialty retailers with exceptional speed-to-market have outperformed department stores and less nimble specialty stores not only in their profit margins, but also in their pace of revenue growth, according to a study by The Sage Group LLC’s Apparel and Retail Group. Surveying results from 47 retailers, all of them publicly held and the overwhelming [...]
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SINGAPORE: FINE JEWELRY MARKET
This report provides information on the Singapore market for fine jewelry. It includes diamond jewelry, natural/cultured pearls, gold jewelry and precious and semi-precious jewelry. According to the World Gold Council (WGC), gold demand in Singapore reflected the effects of the regional economic and currency crisis in the first quarter of 1998 by falling dramatically. With [...]
Drug bust nets 20; cash, cars, jewelry confiscated
The Narcotics and Gang Investigations Section (NAGIS) of the Chicago Police Department dubbed their latest crackdown on drug trafficking in the North Lawndale area as “Hill Street Blues II.” But this one, unlike the television version of the famous cop drama, tiffany had no commercials. NAGIS Commander Eugene Williams said at a press conference Wednesday [...]
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Jewelry Chain Zale Stops Tanzanite Sales Due to Questions over Terrorism Links
Zale Corp., the Irving-based jewelry chain, has suspended sales of jewelry containing the rare, blue-violet stone known as tanzanite because of its possible links to terrorism. As of Jan. 1, Zale pulled tanzanite jewelry from its stores, following its own investigation of reports that proceeds from the sales of the gemstone were possibly used to [...]
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Jewelry stores make old University Building sparkle
The University Building on the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver is the closest thing the metro area has to a diamond district like New York City’s fabled 47th Street. The century-old, 140,000-square-foot structure with Old World brass and marble accents at 910 16th St. houses several floors of retail jewelry stores, jewelry repair shops [...]
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Mass Trumps Class In Jewelry Sales
Consumers may still equate Tiffany & Co. with the epitome of jewelry merchandise, but more and more shoppers actually are buying earrings and necklaces elsewhere. A recent study by Stevens, Pa.-based Unity Marketing found that Wal-Mart is still the nation’s top retailer of jewelry. This is despite the fact that the prime target market for [...]
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Victim’s friend spotted items for sale in coin and jewelry shop
A 28-year-old man was charged Friday with stealing a shotgun and more than $55,000 worth of precious metals from a Lower Macungie home, state police at Fogelsville said. Robert Anthony Shaul of Lower Macungie allegedly entered the home of Thelma Holland at Valley Stream Lane three or four times while she was on vacation in [...]
5 things to love about the Foothills: These attractions ? and many more ?
All geographic areas of Tucson offer something unique to their particular parts of town, but only the Foothills has Tiffany & Co. Located at La Encantada, 2905 E. Skyline Drive, the New York City jewelry store is just one of the high-end retailers at the Foothills shopping center. Gallery Row sits on another corner of [...]
A Novelist’s Catalog Of Lives On the Block
Maybe because of the way its bourgeois tendencies keep clashing with its elitist ambitions, the novel is a literary form that writers have never been able to resist reinventing. There are epistolary novels and those in the form of diaries, wordless picture novels, graphic novels and novels written as dictionaries and encyclopedias. The Serbian writer [...]
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