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Signet Jewelers Ltd. (Ratner Group 1949–1993 then Signet Group plc to September 2008) is, as of 2015, the world's largest retailer of diamond jewellery. [1] The company is domiciled in Bermuda and headquartered in Akron, Ohio , and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange .
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The Ratners Group consisted of Ratners, H. Samuel, Ernest Jones, Leslie Davis, Watches of Switzerland, and over 1,000 shops in the United States, including Kay Jewelers. Although widely regarded as "tacky", [ 5 ] the shops and their wares were nevertheless extremely popular with the public, until Ratner made a speech addressing a conference of ...
The company was founded in 1910 by Henry Shaw (the father of Jerry Shaw, the chairman emeritus of Sterling today), from LeRoy's Jewelers in Lorain, Ohio. Sterling Jewelers is a wholly owned subsidiary of UK-based Signet Jewelers Limited (listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SIG), having been acquired in 1987. [2]
H. Samuel was bought by Ratner's Jewellers in 1986; after that brand's spectacular fall from grace in 1992, the Ratner Group rebranded as the Signet Group, and existing Ratner's stores were rebranded with the H. Samuel name. [3] In 2005 the chain launched its first e-commerce site. [4] In 2008, the company employed 17,200 people.
In February 2014, Signet Jewelers agreed to buy Zale Corporation, with Zale shareholders receiving US$21 a share in cash in US$1.3 billion deal. [11] The merger created a $6.2 billion firm. [11] In January 2017, Zales announced it would close a handful of its mall stores when the leases expire, to avoid duplication with former rival Kay ...
In 2003, after re-establishing Ratners under the new name of Signet Jewelers, Gerald Ratner founded online business Gerald Online [5] in collaboration with SB&T, a Mumbai-based jewellery Export Company. [6] Gerald Online ceased trading in approximately 2014.
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