Chopard, the sculptor of the Palme d’Or, or Golden Palm, trophy for the festival winners, plans to announce a groundbreaking partnership with the Alliance for Responsible Mining, ARM, an organization that works to repair environments damaged by gold mining and helps small-scale miners sell their metal through a fair-trade certification program. Through the partnership, Chopard will get its gold from small mines in Colombia and...

(IDEX Online News) – Swiss-based luxury watch and jewelry house Chopard has become the 151st company to receive certification from the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC). News of the company’s successful accreditation was given at a media update at Baselworld Wednesday. Raffaella Rossiello, the international communication director for Chopard, explained that the certification journey had been both a challenge and quite complex....