Supermarket chain Foodstuffs North Island has launched an online shopping application, initially for New World Mt Roskill, enabling customers to have their orders home delivered at prescribed times or to pick them up from the store via an outdoor click-and-collect locker system. More than 20 years after rival Countdown launched its digital offering, Chris Quin, … Read More →
Miss World 2013 Megan Young is helping design the new Miss World-Philippines crown. The beauty queen and Kapuso actress clarified that she will not be crafting the crown by herself, but she does get the final say on the design. “Boss lang!” she joked at the Miss World Philippines 2017 press conference on Friday. Young … Read More →
Perfume: A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Somerset House Iam on a road trip, somewhere hot and dry. Arizona, maybe, or Texas. I stop the car, open the door into the breeze and, while the cicadas play drums to the song on the radio, the roadside scents of grass and hot asphalt and … Read More →
Mumbai, April 13: The gems and jewellery industry in India is launching various initiatives to ensure that it can further its share of the global trade in the sector. With a share of over 60 per cent, India is already a major player in the manufacturing of diamond across the world. The industry is no aiming to … Read More →
Once upon a time, perfume meant parfum, whose aromatic ingredients are diluted in pure alcohol at their highest practical concentration (usually around 15-20 per cent). One or two drops of this intensely concentrated liquid would last for hours, but it was a luxury that only the very rich could afford. All that changed in the early … Read More →
The biggest and most established names in the gemstone and jewellery trade are all set to impress with their latest selections of diamonds, coloured gemstones, pearls, jewellery and industry-related products, and auxiliary services at the 34th edition of the September Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair scheduled for September 13 to 19 at two world-class venues. … Read More →
Rio Tinto’s 2016 Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender has been launched during a world exclusive preview in Copenhagen against the backdrop of a rare Argyle pink diamond jewellery exhibition. The 2016 Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender includes 63 pink, red and violet diamonds and represents the finest of a year’s production from Rio Tinto’s Argyle diamond mine … Read More →