Introducing the NDC’s Diamond Learning Center
Coinciding with ‘Diamond Month’ this April, the Natural Diamond Council announced the launch of the not-for-profit, free Diamond Learning Center at diamondlearningcenter.org. Its primary objective is to engage jewelry salespeople at scale, equipping them to be better informed and inspired to confidently and clearly distinguish the value propositions of natural diamonds, laboratory-grown diamonds, and diamond […]
Do LGDs need to worry us?
August 2, 2022 – It’s summertime. While the American diamond industry is back at work, our colleagues in Europe and Israel are about to take some well-deserved time off for most of August. In India, manufacturing and trading are slow. We can, however, look with optimism at our market in the coming months. As demonstrated […]
LGDs: set your own bar higher
April 22, 2021 – Do you recall the concerns that sparked the industry when the filling of feathers in diamonds, the “Yehuda treatment,” was revealed to the industry? How about the panic wave that hit the industry when HPHT (High Pressure, High Temperature) diamonds came into the market? The discussions, arguments, and occasional mudslinging that […]