The acquisition included three different jewelry chains which have been part of A&C and which no longer operate. It examined, and measured, the variety of jewelry stores in the major buying centres in every state and, curiously, found that jewellers accounted for a ‘standard’ 5 per cent of all specialty stores in main buying centres. Reviewing the past 10–15 years – the first of Jeweller’s evaluation of jewelry chains was printed in 2003 – many jewellers lamented the rise of, and competition from, style jewellery. The first indicators of established jewellery making in Ancient Egypt was around three,000–5,000 years in…