UK Jeweller Takes Step Towards Transparency

Expand A Boodles store in Dublin, Ireland, 2013. © 2013/Alamy Some exciting changes have taken place since I first visited the flagship store of Boodles, the prestigious UK jeweller, on Bond Street in central London in March 2017. Then, I was invited into a beautiful, century-old room to talk with the company directors about their efforts to ensure human rights were respected in each step of the supply chain from the mineral mines to the storefronts of this company with annual sales of US$86 million. While the conversation was friendly, it quickly became clear Boodles was not doing nearly…

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