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<updated>2026-07-21T23:44:11+00:00</updated>
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<title>Listed Indian Jewellery Retail Stocks Rise In Wake Of GST Announcement</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Shares of gem and jewellery firms listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) surged on Monday in the wake of the Indian government’s announcement that gold and gold jewellery would attract a Goods & Services Tax (GST) of 3 percent.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-07-06T06:37:24+00:00</updated>
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<title>Indian Digital Gold Buying System Now Expanding To Jewellery</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Indian online digital wallet and retail system Paytm says it has sold more than 100 kilograms of gold on its platform and is now in discussions with jewellers across the country to enable buyers to redeem their digital gold in the form of jewellery.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-07-06T05:37:54+00:00</updated>
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<title>70% Drop In Jewellery Buying In India On First Day Of GST Regime</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Daily jewellery sales in India declined by 70 percent on Monday, the first full day after the roll-out of the country’s new Goods and Services Tax (GST), according to Nitin Khandelwal, Chairman of the All India Gem & Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF).]]></summary>
<updated>2017-07-06T05:30:58+00:00</updated>
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<title>PANDORA Rolls Out New Products To Stimulate US Sales</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Copenhagen-based mass-market jewellery brand PANDORA, which saw revenue declining 10 percent over the first quarter of this year]]></summary>
<updated>2017-07-06T05:20:57+00:00</updated>
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<title>$50M Of New DPA Marketing Budget Will Go To US Promotions</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Diamond Producers Association (DPA) plans to throw $50 million of its just-announced 2017 marketing budget of $57 million into US market promotions.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-06-30T12:14:46+00:00</updated>
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<title>Indian Tax On Rough Import Retrograde, Says GJEPC Chairman</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Indian government announced its long-awaited tax regime for the gem and jewellery industry under the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) system over the weekend.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-06-30T12:02:24+00:00</updated>
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<title>2016 US Demand Hit $41B, But Emerging Markets Driving Growth: De Beers</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[While US consumers now account for roughly half of all diamond jewellery bought worldwide, buying $41 billion of the $80 billion sold globally]]></summary>
<updated>2017-06-15T10:07:52+00:00</updated>
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<title>Signet Submits Conflict Minerals Report To SEC For Fourth Year</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Signet Jewelers Limited said that it had recently submitted its fourth consecutive Conflict Minerals Report to the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) in accordance with Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-06-15T08:03:20+00:00</updated>
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<title>GJEPC-ALROSA Agreement May Lead To Direct Russian Rough Sales In India</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[India’s Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and state-controlled Russian diamond mining giant ALROSA signed]]></summary>
<updated>2017-06-15T07:02:58+00:00</updated>
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<title>Personal Luxury Goods Market May Grow To $290B This Year: Bain</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The global personal luxury goods market is expected to grow by 2 to 4 percent to €254-€259 billion]]></summary>
<updated>2017-06-02T06:27:33+00:00</updated>
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<title>Recovering Demand From India Sees ALROSA Revenues Climb</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In a sign that it was recovering from a slump in 2016, brought about mainly by the Indian currency reform that adversely impacted demand from its Indian long-term clients]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-30T05:07:56+00:00</updated>
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<title>Signet Q1 Same Store Sales Slide 11.5%; Outsources Customer Credit</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Signet Jewelers Limited announced that same store sales declined 11.5 percent during the first quarter of fiscal 2018 — the 13 weeks ended April 29, 2017.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-26T11:32:49+00:00</updated>
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<title>Higher Diamond Wholesale In Asia Helps Stem Tiffany Results Slide</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Tiffany & Co., reporting results for the year ended January 31, 2017, said worldwide net sales rose 1 percent to $900 million due to growth in Asia-Pacific and an increase in the sale of diamonds on a wholesale basis.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-26T06:14:58+00:00</updated>
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<title>De Beers Announces 2 Million Forevermark Inscriptions</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[De Beers today announced that its Forevermark diamond brand has inscribed its two millionth diamond.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-26T05:45:01+00:00</updated>
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<title>Gemfields, Lucara, Aurora &amp; ARM Get Chopard Responsible Supply Award</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Caroline Scheufele, co-president and creative director of Swiss luxury watch and jewellery company Chopard]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-26T05:20:07+00:00</updated>
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<title>ALROSA Gets Majority Stake In Angola Diamond Deposit Estimated At $35B</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[ALROSA President Sergey Ivanov and Angolan national diamond company Endiama President Antonio Carlos Sumbula signed and agreement giving ALROSA a 50.5 percent stake in Angola’s Luaxe diamond deposit.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-25T05:20:39+00:00</updated>
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<title>10-Carat Marquise Diamond Ring To Lead Bonhams April 27 Sale</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A single-stone ring by Van Cleef & Arpels featuring a 10.28-carat, E colour, marquise-cut diamond is set to lead the Bonhams London Fine Jewellery sale on April 27. The ring has a pre-auction estimate of £150,000-£200,000 ($187,200-$250,000).]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-24T09:23:46+00:00</updated>
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<title>CBI Files 6 Fraud Cases Against Winsome Diamonds, Jatin Mehta</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday registered six cases against Winsome Diamonds and Jewellery Ltd.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-24T09:12:26+00:00</updated>
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<title>NY Police Arrest 10 For Scamming US, Indian Dealers Of $9M In Diamonds</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Police arrested 10 suspected Russian gangsters on Wednesday for allegedly defrauding diamond dealers in New York, Las Vegas and Mumbai out of more than $9 million in diamonds.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-24T08:48:15+00:00</updated>
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<title>Seek Help To Develop Diamond Processing, Indian Envoy Tells Zimbabwe</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Indian Amabassador to Zimbabwe Rungsung Masakui said that country should partner with other countries to establish a diamond cutting and polishing centre if the country is to benefit from value-addition of its gemstones.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-24T07:55:54+00:00</updated>
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<entry>
<title>Carat Lane To Add 30 Retail Stores, Double Turnover By Fiscal Year End</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Indian online jewellery retailer CaratLane, now majority owned by the Titan Company, which owns India’s largest jewellery brand Tanishq]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-24T07:42:36+00:00</updated>
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<title>TSL Says Adverse Impact Of New US Govt. On China Added To Sales Drop</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[China jewellery retail major Tse Sui Luen Jewellery (TSL), which reported a drop in turnover and profits for the fiscal year ended February 28]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-24T05:39:35+00:00</updated>
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<entry>
<title>Gemfields Undervalued In Pallinghurst Takeover Bid, Say Shareholders</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Angry minority shareholders in the UK of coloured gemstone producer Gemfields Plc have rejected an unsolicited takeover bid by Pallinghurst Resources, which already owns 47 percent of the coloured gemstone mining firm.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-24T05:26:26+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>UN Sending Additional Peacekeeping Forces To CAR Diamond-Mining Town</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The United Nations said it plans to send additional peacekeeping forces to the diamond-mining town of Bangassou  in the Central African Republic (CAR), to quell a recent wave of violence.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-24T05:24:13+00:00</updated>
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<title>ALROSA March 2017 Rough Diamond Sales $554M</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Russian diamond miner ALROSA sold $554.2 million worth of rough diamonds and $12.4 million in polished over March 2017.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-20T12:40:24+00:00</updated>
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<title>LVMH Watches &amp; Jewellery Group Q1 Revenue +14% To $932M</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Luxury group LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton reported revenue of €879 million ($932.1 million) for its Watches & Jewellery business group in the first quarter of 2017.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-20T12:26:34+00:00</updated>
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<entry>
<title>Luxury Watches Route Through US Grey Market As Chinese Demand Fades</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sales that have fallen 8 percent over the first two months of this year, on top of a 10 percent fall through 2016, have diverted luxury watch sales from the China market to the US grey market, reports Reuters.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-20T11:56:38+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>WDM To Unveil Diamond Retailer Promotion Initiative At Las Vegas</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The World Diamond Mark Foundation (WDM) will launch its Part of You diamond retailer]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-18T11:25:49+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>De Beers To Auction Polished From Its Own Manufacturing</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[De Beers today announced that its Auction Sales business will pilot the sale of its own polished diamonds using auctions for the first time.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-18T11:22:48+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IDE Opens E-Commerce Wing For Members</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) opened a new wing dedicated to promoting internet marketing among its members.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-18T11:20:10+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Diamond Earrings Fetch Record $57.4M At Sotheby’s Geneva Auction</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A pair of pear-shaped diamond earrings nicknamed Apollo and Artemis, were sold at auction in Geneva by Sotheby's on Tuesday for a record $57.4 million.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-17T12:51:33+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Steady Demand, Says Bruce Cleaver As De Beers Sells $520M In Cycle 4</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/steady-demand-says-bruce-cleaver-as-de-beers-sells-520m-in-cycle-4-3bmnaeee8k6p"></link>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[De Beers announced that its provisional sales total for the fourth cycle of 2017]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-17T12:35:55+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Jewellery Sales Account For 82% Of $535M Titan Q4 Revenue</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/jewellery-sales-account-for-82-of-535m-titan-q4-revenue-3rm6ya43rkeq"></link>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Titan Co. Ltd., which owns the Tanishq jewellery brand, the Titan watch brand and holds a majority stake in online jewellery retailer Carat Lane]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-15T13:13:08+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Jewellery Sales Increases Help Offset Richemont Sales, Profit Drop</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Swiss luxury group Richemont, which owns the Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels jewellery brands]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-15T13:01:13+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>GIA Announces 2018 Gem Symposium With Harvard Business School</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/gia-announces-2018-gem-symposium-with-harvard-business-school-b7kxed3e6mry"></link>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) will convene its sixth International Gemological Symposium in Carlsbad]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-15T06:06:17+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Auction Of Diamond Paintings To Benefit Jewelers For Children</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/auction-of-diamond-paintings-to-benefit-jewelers-for-children-y7m8brpbxme8"></link>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Two diamond paintings by jewellery designer and artist Reena Ahluwalia will be auctioned at the Jewelers for Children Facets of Hope event in Las Vegas.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-15T06:03:44+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New LVMH Luxury Website Will Feature Rival Brands As Well</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[French luxury brand LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, which owns the Bulgar]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-15T06:01:02+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Indian Parliamentarians Visit Gem &amp; Jewellery Skill Development Centre</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A 20-member delegation of India’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour, led by MP Kirit Somaiya, visited training centres of the Gem]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-09T06:44:42+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Plumb Club, JCK To Host DPA Presentation On Promotions To Millennials</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/plumb-club-jck-to-host-dpa-presentation-on-promotions-to-millennials-p7ke64r77mwx"></link>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Plumb Club and JCK announced that they will be partnering to host a Diamond Producers Association (DPA) presentation that will discuss the challenge of changing millennial perceptions about diamonds]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-09T06:41:29+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Signet Settles Equal Opportunity Lawsuit</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/signet-settles-equal-opportunity-lawsuit-63mbd5jy5mb7"></link>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Signet Jewelers Limited announced that it had reached an agreement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to resolve all claims related]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-09T06:39:11+00:00</updated>
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<entry>
<title>GIA Detects Natural White Diamond With Fancy Blue CVD Layer On Top</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/gia-detects-natural-white-diamond-with-fancy-blue-cvd-layer-on-top-6rm5xw3rekw4"></link>
<id>urn:uuid:860c3b4d-1c15-4783-6250-e2f40042ca62</id>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[GIA Detects Natural White Diamond With Fancy Blue CVD Layer On Top]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-06T12:56:52+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>De Beers Research Project To Store Carbon In Kimberlite</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/de-beers-research-project-to-store-carbon-in-kimberlite-3rm6y6xrrkeq"></link>
<id>urn:uuid:36cae70a-c7d5-dc5c-c490-7c1dac9f16ec</id>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[De Beers Research Project To Store Carbon In Kimberlite]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-06T12:50:20+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Signet Announces Retirement Of Veterans Lee, McEwen</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/signet-announces-retirement-of-veterans-lee-mcewen-ypm4475eym85"></link>
<id>urn:uuid:5267f8a8-8e99-26ea-b97f-cb68cb105d51</id>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Signet Announces Retirement Of Veterans Lee, McEwen]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-06T11:51:31+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>De Beers: $5B In Returns To Partners, Local Communities In 2016</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/de-beers-5b-in-returns-to-partners-local-communities-in-2016-3rmw6bwyrkn4"></link>
<id>urn:uuid:36f9e57e-4647-3360-2ed3-0271fce2c962</id>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[De Beers: $5B In Returns To Partners, Local Communities In 2016]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-06T11:44:36+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Diamond Empowerment Fund Award Recipients To Be Honoured In Las Vegas</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/diamond-empowerment-fund-award-recipients-to-be-honoured-in-las-vegas-b7kxep5yjmry"></link>
<id>urn:uuid:d5692790-81cf-2787-f157-d625ec441f99</id>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Diamond Empowerment Fund Award Recipients To Be Honoured In Las Vegas]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-06T11:29:01+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Zimbabwe Govt. Settles With Ousted Private Miners In Marange Takeover</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/zimbabwe-govt-settles-with-ousted-private-miners-in-marange-takeover-6rm5xw37ekw4"></link>
<id>urn:uuid:1c1034fa-6281-d740-f12f-fa64163c531b</id>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Zimbabwe Govt. Settles With Ousted Private Miners In Marange Takeover]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-06T10:49:47+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Watches, Jewellery In Double-Digit Growth As Kering Reports Record Q1</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/watches-jewellery-in-double-digit-growth-as-kering-reports-record-q1-3rmw6bw3akn4"></link>
<id>urn:uuid:a009040a-7699-8353-2df4-996bd8fae468</id>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Luxury group Kering reported a record performance for the first quarter of 2017,  reporting revenue of €3.6 billion ($3.93 billion) for the period.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-06T09:35:58+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KP Must Now Face Non-Conflict Issues Like Origin Guarantees: Polyakov</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/kp-must-now-face-non-conflict-issues-like-origin-guarantees-polyakov-86kpn78y7kr4"></link>
<id>urn:uuid:a25c3359-93fb-77e4-c451-d7b824c2278a</id>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[KP Must Now Face Non-Conflict Issues Like Origin Guarantees: Polyakov]]></summary>
<updated>2017-05-06T08:51:23+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IIDGR Launches Synthetic Diamond Detection Course</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/iidgr-launches-synthetic-diamond-detection-course-86kpn7bx7kr4"></link>
<id>urn:uuid:070e999f-7261-203d-7555-bb6bb5387950</id>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The International Institute of Diamond Grading & Research (IIDGR), part of the De Beers Group]]></summary>
<updated>2017-04-29T06:40:46+00:00</updated>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>$43B Gems &amp; Jewellery Exports Make Up 16% Of Indian Total</title>
<link href="https://news.prfree.org/@gemkonnectseo/43b-gems-jewellery-exports-make-up-16-of-indian-total-6rm5xwpepkw4"></link>
<id>urn:uuid:99151583-3a9c-08de-d959-7f98c920e118</id>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[India’s exports of gems and jewellery provisionally increased 9.85 percent to $43.16 billion in fiscal 2017 (April 2016 to March 2017) over the $39.24 billion in fiscal 2016 (April 2015 to March 2016)]]></summary>
<updated>2017-04-29T05:58:28+00:00</updated>
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