CIBJO releases Responsible Sourcing Special Report, notes demand for supply chain integrity increased with COVID
SEPTEMBER 8: 2021The report focuses extensively on environmental responsibility. “Already today we are witnessing the devastating impacts of increasingly unstable climates. The consequences of even more extreme temperature increases are difficult to contemplate,” commission president Jonathan Mr. Kendall writes.
CIBJO to launch third season of Jewellery Industry Voices with hybrid in-person/streamed seminar at VICENZAORO
SEPTEMBER 9: 2021The two-hour, two-part seminar/webinar is a featured event during the second day of the VICENZAORO September jewellery show. It is entitled 'Sustainable Development Goals: Meeting Their Challenge.'
CIBJO releases Marketing & Education Special Report, looking at impacts of COVID pandemic on jewellery industry
SEPTEMBER 8: 2021The report focuses extensively on environmental responsibility. “Already today we are witnessing the devastating impacts of increasingly unstable climates. The consequences of even more extreme temperature increases are difficult to contemplate,” commission president Jonathan Mr. Kendall writes.
2021 CIBJO Congress to take place virtually, November 1-4 and November 15-18
SEPTEMBER 2: 2021The November sessions are being timed to enable optimal attendance by delegates linking in from multiple time zones, and thus only one or two will be held on any given day, for not more than two and half hours in total.
CIBJO releases Laboratory-Grown Diamond Guidance to enhance consumer confidence in jewellery trade
JUNE 17, 2021:The guidance include a set of operating standards and principles for the laboratory-grown diamond sector that are designed to enhance consumer confidence both in the product and the jewellery industry.
Asia’s largest jewellery retailer, Chow Tai Fook, joins CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, as new member
JUNE 15, 2021:Its extensive retail network of more than 4,590 stores, covers Greater China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and the United States, and it also operates a fast-growing e-commerce business.
Italian watch industry association ASSOROLOGI confirmed as new CIBJO member
JUNE 7, 2021:According to CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri, the addition of major watch industry associations in CIBJO indicates not only the growing collaboration between the watch and jewellery sectors, but also the need of both to create common benchmarks for standards, nomenclature, responsible sourcing and consumer confidence.
CIBJO launches free online toolkit to assist gem and jewellery companies to undertake responsible sourcing supply chain due diligence
APRIL 22, 2021:The Toolkit supports the CIBJO Responsible Sourcing Book, which provides companies in the jewellery supply chain with a framework and guidance for due diligence for the responsible sourcing of gem materials and precious metals.