At Zozi Jewelry in Tel Aviv, the maker, the shop and the story sit within a few steps of one another. Zoar Asher turns travel memories and elemental symbols into pieces customers can wear with their own meanings.
An $11,000 unpaid invoice exposed the hazards of wholesale growth. Stacy King’s jewelry studio has been moving closer to the people who wear its work.
Software engineers entered a stubbornly traditional trade, learned manufacturing the hard way, and built an online customization machine. The useful lesson is not about jewelry - it is about owning the messy middle between a customer's click and the box at their door.
Daniel's Jewelers is a family-owned American fine jewelry retailer founded in 1948 and headquartered in Culver City, California. Operating more than 100 stores across California, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico and Florida plus an e-commerce site, the company sells diamonds, watches, engagement rings and gifts at accessible price points. Its defining feature is dignified in-store financing that extends credit to underserved shoppers regardless of income or credit history, a model that has made it a fixture in Hispanic and multigenerational communities under the banner 'Own the Dream.'
HAVERHILL is a fifth-generation, family-owned fine jewelry company based in Warren, Rhode Island that makes personalized 14k gold birthstone jewelry to order. Founded by designer Haverhill Leach in 2013 and run alongside CEO Andrej Strojin, the brand pairs an in-house, waterfront studio with a direct-to-consumer, Shopify-powered storefront, shipping custom rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings in a matter of days. It has landed on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies three years running.