Charm Diamond Centres

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Charm Diamond Centres
Type Private
Industry Retail
Founded Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
1972
Headquarters
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
,
Canada
Number of locations
74
Area served
Canada
Products Jewellery
Number of employees
800
Subsidiaries Ben Moss Jewellers
Website charmdiamondcentres.com

Charm Diamond Centres is the largest independently owned Canadian jewelry retailer and second largest retailer in Canada. [1] [2] [3] Its stores are primarily located within regional malls in Canadian provinces such as Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island. [3]

Charm Diamond Centres uses the Kimberley Process to certify that their diamonds come from legitimate sources. [4]

The business was founded in Nova Scotia by Richard Calder in 1972. The jewelry chain is still owned and operated by the Calder family. [1] In 2007, Calder received the Entrepreneur of the Year Special Citation Award for Retailing Excellence in the Category of Business-to-Consumer Products & Services at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. [5]

Charm Diamond Centres has been chosen as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed companies since 2007; in 2013 it received Platinum status.[ clarification needed ] [2] [6]

In January 2017, the company acquired the brand rights to Ben Moss Jewelers which had gone into receivership in 2016, rehired many former staff members and reopened 2 stores in Winnipeg along with announcing its intention to open several other stores in the following months. [7] Under the 3 brands, Charm Diamond Centres, Crescent Gold and Diamonds, and Ben Moss Jewellers they operate 82 stores in nine provinces. Recent estimates put their number of employees at 800 with 60 being located at their Head Office in Nova Scotia.

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