Jeweller - March 2024
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MARCH <strong>2024</strong><br />
Contents<br />
This Month<br />
Industry Facets<br />
15 Editorial<br />
28<br />
10 YEARS AGO<br />
Time Machine: <strong>March</strong> 2014<br />
16 Upfront<br />
31<br />
LEARN ABOUT GEMS<br />
Game-Changing Gemmologists: VII<br />
18 News<br />
70<br />
MY BENCH<br />
Alex Hamilton<br />
41 FASHION JEWELLERY<br />
Exciting opportunities<br />
55 Show & Tell<br />
72<br />
SOAPBOX<br />
Marion van der Krogt<br />
Fashion jewellery offers retailers the<br />
opportunity to forge a connection with<br />
the next generation of consumers.<br />
Features<br />
32<br />
41<br />
47<br />
STATE OF THE INDUSTRY REPORT - ADDENDUM<br />
What's going on in Queensland?<br />
FASHION JEWELLERY<br />
Improve your connection with the next generation<br />
WATCH TRENDS<br />
Industry analysts voice their thoughts on the year ahead<br />
Better Your Business<br />
47 WATCH TRENDS<br />
Time for change<br />
It's shaping up to be a year to remember for<br />
the watch industry, with long-entrenched icons<br />
challenged by new and innovative brands.<br />
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BUSINESS STRATEGY<br />
How do you improve your business? RYAN ESTIS asks four key questions.<br />
SELLING<br />
DAVID BROWN explains the difference between product and sales training.<br />
MANAGEMENT<br />
You know what they say about assumptions? DALE FURTWENGLER offers advice.<br />
MARKETING & PR<br />
DENYSE DRUMMOND DUNN questions how well you know your customers.<br />
32 STATE OF THE INDUSTRY REPORT<br />
Beautiful one day,<br />
perfect the next<br />
In the latest addendum to <strong>Jeweller</strong>'s <strong>2024</strong><br />
State of the Industry Report, the complex and<br />
often baffling retail landscape of Queensland<br />
is put under the microscope.<br />
55 SHOW & TELL BUYING GUIDE<br />
Latest and greatest<br />
Learn all about the latest new products<br />
from industry leading suppliers ahead<br />
of the Australian <strong>Jeweller</strong>y Fair on<br />
the Gold Coast.<br />
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LOGGED ON<br />
SIMON DELL explains the inner workings of social media algorithms.<br />
FRONT COVER<br />
For more than 130 years, EDOX watches<br />
have combined ultimate precision with<br />
ingenious solutions – even for the most<br />
demanding activities: be it above or below<br />
the water surface, in the eternal ice or<br />
even on glowing desert sand. Any timing<br />
instrument from EDOX carrying the<br />
legendary hourglass logo will meet even<br />
the highest demands of its owner.<br />
Learn more: dgau.com.au/edox<br />
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