Can’t-Miss Catalog
Kassoy LLC has released its newly redesigned 128-page color catalog, which includes hundreds of items spanning several product categories, with gemological tools, equipment, bench tools, custom showcases, jewelry labels and much more. PDF version available online. kassoy.com
Stone Scrutiny
Stuller has announced the addition of an array of new diamond-analysis technologies to their in-house Diamond Lab, including three advanced analytical spectrometers, the De Beers PhosView, the portable D-Screen machine from HRD Laboratories, the De Beers Automated Melee Screening Device 2 and more.
stuller.com/aboutdiamonds
Back to Bricks
The website CouponFollow’s recent Millennial Shopping Report found that 58 percent of younger millennials (ages 20-23) do the majority of their purchasing offline. This encouraging number is 5 percentage points above the generational average. couponfollow.com/research
Old Jewelry, New Venue
The Palm Beach Show Group has announced that the 2018 JCK Las Vegas show will see the debut of a the Las Vegas Estate Jewelry & Watch Pavilion as part of the existing JCK show. This pavilion will bring some of the finest estate jewelry and watch dealers from around the world directly to the JCK show floor. palmbeachshowgroup.com
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Snug Solution
Perfect Fit solves the always-frustrating dilemma of rings that rotate on the finger by using ergonomic sculpting of the ring profile to add additional weight at the bottom of the shank. justperfectmsp.com
This article originally appeared in the July 2017 edition of INSTORE.
Honoring a Legacy: How Smith & Son Jewelers Exceeded Every Goal With Wilkerson
When Andrew Smith decided to close the Springfield, Massachusetts location of Smith & Son Jewelers, the decision came down to family. His father was retiring after 72 years in the business, and Andrew wanted to spend more time with his children and soon-to-arrive grandchildren.
For this fourth-generation jeweler whose great-grandfather founded the company in 1918, closing the 107-year-old Springfield location required the right partner. Smith chose Wilkerson, and the experience exceeded expectations from start to finish.
"Everything they told me was 100% true," Smith says. "The ease and use of all their tools was wonderful."
The consultants' knowledge and expertise proved invaluable. Smith and his father set their own financial goal, but Wilkerson proposed three more ambitious targets. "We thought we would never make it," Smith explains. "We were dead wrong. We hit our first goal, second goal and third goal. It was amazing."
Smith's recommendation is emphatic: "I would never be able to do what they did by myself."
