August 2024 | Lab Grown Magazine

August 2024 | The Lab Grown Diamond Resource Book 26 Mailed to 24,000 Jewelers Monthly - To advertise call (888) 832-1109 | August 2024 27 The International Gemological Institute (IGI) operates 29 labs & 18 schools in 10 countries and recently opened a Fifth Avenue NYC office. IGI is contracted as Pandora’s exclusive grading lab and dominates the majority of LGDs sold today.A ‘Diamonds by Pandora’ is Pandora’s foray into the lab-grown diamond sphere and was officially launched in the US and Canada markets on August 25, 2022. IGI also works closely with Grown Brilliance and other growing online lab and natural diamond consumer sites and will now offer co-branded grading reports in tradi- tional paper formats for highly competitive process as GIA watch3s their every move wanting to take the lead in LGD grading. Photo: IGI By next year, GIA will move to all digital gradng reports originally created only for laboratory-grown grading. While the specifications of the lab grading report remain less than that of natural, The GIA 4Cs app is free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad in English and Simplified Chinese and on Google Play. The app provides GIA’s diamond grading scales, how grades affect value, and other key diamond-related specifications. It also includes interactive tools to help consumers compare color, clarity, and cut grades, and visualize carat weight. Watch for more GIA consumer communication and logo plate offerings for lab-grown diamond displays, which use their lab for loose and mounted LGD products. Photo: GIA ◊ Dan Scott, Scott Kay’s former CMO of 10 years now runs Luxe Licensing, an 11-year old NYC-metro marketing, video production and licensing agency. He recently was awarded a Cambridge University honorary partnership, META multistream partnership, and is now an Oxford Press Board Member. Dan Scott welcomes conversation and may be reached through WhatsApp at +1 201 294 3697 , dans@luxelicensing. com, LuxeLicensing.com or on Instagram @a_brand_architect