The American Gem Society (AGS) and Gemological Institute of America (GIA) will dramatically advance their long-standing collaboration in pursuit of their shared client safety missions. GIA will create an endowment to assist AGS and its membership via training and credentialing, furthering the Society’s efforts to develop the subsequent generations of educated, moral skilled jewellers and business leaders.

The sibling non-profit organisations, each based by Robert M. and Beatrice Shipley within the Nineteen Thirties, will mix their gemmological analysis efforts, integrating AGS Laboratories’ distinctive experience, mental property and know-how to develop new GIA services to guard customers and assist the commerce.

“This consequential settlement brings AGS and GIA even nearer, driving our future with 90 years of shared historical past and elevating our founders’ imaginative and prescient,” mentioned AGS CEO Katherine Bodoh. “AGS and GIA every have their distinctive perspective and experience, and a steadfast concentrate on advancing ethics, requirements and training within the gem and jewelry business.”

“By harnessing one another’s strengths to maneuver ahead boldly, customers can be higher protected and we’ll make sure the longevity of the Shipleys’ imaginative and prescient,” mentioned GIA President and CEO Susan Jacques. “I want to thank the AGS Worldwide Board of Administrators and the GIA Board of Governors for supporting this new part within the shut relationship between our two organisations.”

The strategic collaboration between GIA and AGS will assist advance the Society’s retailer packages and assist extra member training on the annual AGS Conclave and all year long. “With this thrilling development, AGS will concentrate on our core mission and actions, enhancing advantages and providers to ship elevated worth to our members and their prospects as our business evolves,” mentioned Bodoh.

The AGS Laboratories analysis employees, mental property, know-how and Las Vegas facility will combine into GIA. The mixed analysis workforce will develop revolutionary services to enhance how customers and the commerce perceive and recognize diamonds, together with gentle efficiency analysis and a science-based fancy lower grade commonplace

Recognising the numerous contributions of AGS Laboratories to the business and client belief, the AGS Superb® Report can be obtainable from GIA as a digital-only complement to GIA diamond stories for eligible D-to-Z pure and laboratory-grown spherical sensible and fancy form diamonds. The AGS Superb Report complement may have an extra price of US$25. GIA shoppers will be capable of request the supplemental stories starting in January 2023. Additional particulars concerning the supplemental AGS Superb Report® from GIA can be obtainable quickly.

AGS Laboratories will proceed to offer providers till the tip of 2022. AGS Laboratories will contact shoppers with particulars of the transition.

AGS CEO Katherine Bodoh (left) and GIA President and CEO Susan Jacques, pictured collectively at AGS Day on the GIA Carlsbad Headquarters on 4th October, 2022.