Broken Supply Chains: Why Retail Growth Isn’t Lifting Diamonds

Solitaire International: Retail jewelry sales are growing across many major markets, yet that momentum is no longer flowing through the diamond supply chain the way it once did.

The rise of lab-grown diamonds, higher gold prices, leaner inventories and retail consolidation mean fewer natural diamonds are moving through the pipeline even as jewelry revenue climbs.

The result is a weakening of the industry’s traditional trading cycles, forcing the rough and polished markets to adjust to a new reality of lower natural-diamond demand.

I explore the dynamics behind this shift in my latest piece for Solitaire International: Broken Supply Chains: Why Retail Growth Isn’t Lifting Diamonds

Image: Display of diamond rings. (Media from Wix)