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Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It’s been a while since you received a “DMIA Matters” circular. I trust that in 2024 it will become a monthly recurrence in your digital mailboxes.
I hope you all celebrated a happy Thanksgiving with your families and friends!
We’re now on the last stretch toward the year-end holiday season. Admittedly, we see many factors that could affect ‘our’ sales season: US consumer confidence is not high, two wars are being fought simultaneously on the doorsteps of the Western world, and, last but not least, lab-grown diamond sales may impede our sales volumes and profits.
Therefore, we must help our retail clients and partners tell the diamond story and communicate the lasting value of diamonds to the consumers.
Some of you may have noticed that the DMIA website is offline. The new DMIA website will come online in the first week of December. However, as you can read below, we’re missing some information. We are literally “quizzing” the membership to complete the missing data.
Next, we're planning to launch a monthly webcast series that covers topics of specific interest to our members. Read more below.
In closing, we reach out to our colleagues and friends in Israel who are, once again, going through tough and very disconcerting times. Our thoughts are with them.
Stuart Samuels
President
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