Key Highlights The Indian Association for Gold Excellence & Standards (IAGES) marked its first anniversary by celebrating a year of promoting trust, transparency and ethical business practices across India’s gold jewellery industry. The annual gathering, held at Hotel Sofitel, BKC, Mumbai, brought together accredited partners, leading jewellery retailers and representatives from across the country’s gold…
Industry Focus Shifts Beyond Lab-Grown Detection as Verification Demands Grow Across Global Supply Chains Key Highlights A decade ago, the diamond industry’s primary concern was relatively straightforward: identifying undisclosed laboratory-grown diamonds that had entered natural diamond parcels. Today, according to Gemological Science International (GSI), the challenge facing manufacturers, retailers and laboratories has become far more…
Key Highlights: Natural Diamond Council has welcomed two rulings from the UK’s advertising watchdog backing its efforts to protect consumers from misleading adverts of synthetic diamonds. The not-for-profit organisation, which exists to promote and protect the integrity of the global natural diamond industry, complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about adverts by two retailers…
Key Highlights In a first-of-its-kind engagement, Indian exporters registered on the India-USA Trade Facilitation Portal participated in a dedicated webinar with Costco Wholesale’s merchandising team and CEO on 24 April, gaining direct insight into the retailer’s sourcing strategy, product categories and supplier onboarding processes. The session — organised through the portal developed by the Consulate…
