Hong Kong’s hard-luxury sales rebounded in September amid an improved job market and a new stimulus payment.Sales of jewelry, watches, clocks and valuable gifts rose 8% year on year to HKD 3.44 billion ($437.6 million) for the month, the municipality’s Census and Statistics Department reported.
The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) has appointed World Diamond Council (WDC) president Edward Asscher as vice chairman at its first in-person board meeting since the start of the pandemic.In addition to serving his second term as head of the WDC, Asscher, who was elected at the October 6.
Pandora has reported a blaze at a distribution center in Hamburg, Germany, noting that the company would use its other locations to serve the European markets should the incident affect supply. The fire, which began yesterday, is under control but has not yet been fully extinguished, Pandora.
Diamcor Mining saw profit rebound during the second fiscal quarter as the company sold a greater number of larger, higher-value rough diamonds.The company posted earnings of $1 million in the three months ending September 30, compared to a loss of $918,953 in the previous quarter, it said last.
Mountain Province achieved its highest quarterly revenue in the company’s history as demand for rough remained resilient. Revenue jumped 17% year on year to $83.3 million in the third quarter ending September 30, the miner reported last week. Sales volume from the company’s Gahcho Kué mine in.