The growing popularity of the new choice in diamonds amongst the tech-savvy and socially conscious generation Some of the affluent Millennials segment leading the shift towards the new kind of diamond More and more luxury brands are now focusing on a new emerging category of consumers, the `Millennial´ generation. As the definition of luxury changes, so do their preferences for jewellery…
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Laboratory grown diamonds are a fact of life. They are a new and very relevant alternative Price competition and acceptance of laboratory grown diamonds to impact the industry According to ABN AMRO´s insight report `Nothing is forever´, the diamond industry should gear up for changes. The structural changes forecasted in the industry for the near future…
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THE VERY FIRST FINE JEWELLERY COLLECTION USING MADESTONES® `The Promise of Created Elegance´ is a new brand of Lab-Grown Diamond Jewellery, the very first range of Fine Jewellery that uses Madestones® and a premiere for the European market. Targeting all independent women, The Promise Of Created Elegance is the brainchild of Judith Lockwood and Gary Wroe, the directors of You Fine Jewellery…
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Welcoming the Year 2016 Forward Thinking : Laboratory Grown diamonds Economic Outlook Madestones marks the beginning of 2016 with an overview at the promising future of laboratory grown diamonds. The Global Research and Consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan´s report indicates that the current scale of gem quality laboratory grown diamond production is estimated to be about 360 000 carats.…
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Review of Laboratory Grown Diamonds evolution in 2015 With an end to a successful year for the laboratory grown diamond industry, we highlight the significant events for you. This year the lab-grown diamond business witnessed a highly progressive outlook from both the consumers and the industry. The technological advancements in the production capacities of the lab-grown diamonds…
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Famous actor Leonardo DiCaprio endorses laboratory grown diamonds Leonardo DiCaprio proudly announced last week that he invested in a start up producing laboratory grown diamonds because he was concerned about some ethical issues related to conventional diamond mining, including environmental issues. DiCaprio, who starred in Blood Diamond, tweeted: Proud to invest in a company reducing human…
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Madestones welcomes you to it’s very first newsletter From the desk of Thierry Silber, founder of Madestones & CEO of Diamaz International The popularity of laboratory grown diamonds is rapidly increasing. The timing is right for the launch of our new brand ‘Madestones’. Madestones is a new concept for marketing laboratory grown diamonds with disclosure and transparency…
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Madestones successfully launched during IJL 2015 Madestones had a successful launch at the most recent IJL trade show in London. Madestones founder, Thierry Silber gave a seminar in cooperation with the International Gemological Institute (IGI) on the first day of the show. The seminar room was full and his talk was well received. He explained…
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‘Recently I was asked by David Brough , a well known UK industry journalist, about my opinion on the above question. Because of the lack of interesting news this month I thought that sharing with you my reply would be a nice thing to do. The natural diamond industry loves the term ‘synthetic’ for many and varied reasons. But…
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