{"id":81288,"date":"2022-03-31T11:48:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T09:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test2023.luxus-plus.com\/?p=81288"},"modified":"2022-03-31T12:22:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T10:22:01","slug":"richemont-group-brands-leave-the-responsible-jewelry-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/richemont-group-brands-leave-the-responsible-jewelry-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Richemont Group brands leave the Responsible Jewelry Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>After the RJC failed to cut ties with Russia, Richemont-owned Cartier and other group companies said they had withdrawn from the Responsible Jewelry Council.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Responsible Jewelry Council<\/strong> is an international association of jewellery and watch companies and their suppliers that aims to promote ethical, socially and environmentally sound and humane business practices. But yesterday, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/le-salon-watch-and-wonders-revient-en-physique-pour-2022\/\"><strong>Watches and Wonders<\/strong><\/a> trade fair got underway in Geneva, <strong>Cartier<\/strong> and other <strong>Richemont<\/strong> group brands said they were withdrawing from the Responsible Jewellery Council for the simple reason that the industry body <strong>has not cut ties with Russia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It is not part of our Richemont values to be part of an organisation whose members support conflicts and wars<\/em>,&#8221; explained <strong>Cyrille Vigneron<\/strong>, president and CEO of Cartier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jewellery maker <strong>Pandora<\/strong> also followed suit, saying on Wednesday that it was cutting ties with the RJC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Russian diamond producer <strong>Alrosa<\/strong>&#8216;s membership of the RJC had attracted attention, although the company voluntarily withdrew from the RJC board earlier this month for obvious reasons.\u00a0Alrosa was added to a list of UK sanctions last week and Washington has targeted both the company and its CEO <strong>Sergei Ivanov<\/strong>, who the US Treasury says is one of Russian President <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong>&#8216;s closest allies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richemont, which has suspended operations, including e-commerce, in Russia<\/strong>, also said it had stopped sourcing diamonds from the country since 24 February.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read also &gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/cartier-unveils-18-unique-timepieces-in-collaboration-with-the-singapore-watch-club\/\">CARTIER UNVEILS 18 UNIQUE TIMEPIECES IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SINGAPORE WATCH CLUB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured photo : \u00a9 Cartier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the RJC failed to cut ties with Russia, Richemont-owned Cartier and other group companies said they had withdrawn from the Responsible Jewelry Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":81292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"After the RJC failed to cut ties with Russia, Richemont-owned Cartier and other group companies said they had withdrawn from the Responsible Jewelry Council.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"jewelry,diamonds,alrosa,cartier,richemont,Richemont group,watches and wonders,watchmaking,decision,responsible jewelry council,jewels,pandora","footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,5868],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csr","category-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}