Charm Diamond Centres

{{Short description|Canadian jewellery retailer}}

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{{Infobox company|

| name = Charm Diamond Centres

| type = Private

| foundation = {{nowrap|Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada}}
1972

| logo = Charm Diamond Logo BLACK5700.jpg

| location_city = Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

| location_country = Canada

| locations = 74

| industry = Retail

| products = Jewellery

| area_served = Canada

| num_employees = 800

| subsid = Ben Moss Jewellers

| homepage = {{URL|1=http://www.charmdiamondcentres.com|2=charmdiamondcentres.com}}

}}

Charm Diamond Centres is an independently owned Canadian jewellery retailer.{{Citation |url=http://www.hoovers.com/company/Charm_Jewelry_Ltd/rfhtrxi-1.html |title=Charm Diamond Ltd. |accessdate=2012-03-25}}{{Citation | last1 = Lopez-Pacheco | first1 = Alexandra | title = Business Built on Family Values | newspaper = The National Post | date = February 12, 2008 }}{{Citation|url=http://www.nslocal.ca/results.php?hide_id=881&hide_stylesheet=2|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115133111/http://www.nslocal.ca/results.php?hide_id=881&hide_stylesheet=2|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-15|title=Charm Diamond Centres|accessdate=2012-03-24}} 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.

Charm Diamond Centres uses the Kimberley Process to certify that their diamonds come from legitimate sources.{{Citation |url=http://www.thepencentre.com/PenLetters/2010/August_2010_PenLetter.pdf |title=Pen Centre Newsletter |accessdate=2012-03-25 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

The business was founded in Nova Scotia by Richard Calder in 1972. The jewellery chain is still owned and operated by the Calder family. 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.{{Citation | last1 = Maclean | first1 = Heather | title = 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year - Retail | newspaper = Progress Magazine, Annual Entrepreneur of the Year Issue | date = December 2007 – January 2008 }}

Charm Diamond Centres has been chosen as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed companies since 2007; in 2013 it received Platinum status.{{clarify|date=November 2015}}{{Citation |url=https://www.canadas50best.com/en/meetourwinners/Pages/GoldStandardWinners.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121217131506/http://www.canadas50best.com/en/meetourwinners/Pages/GoldStandardWinners.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-17 |title=Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies - Gold Standard Members |accessdate=2012-03-25 }}

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.{{cite news|last1=Cash|first1=Martin|title=Works like a Charm: Ben Moss to reopen|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/works-like-a-charm-ben-moss-to-reopen-410594935.html|accessdate=18 January 2017|work=Winnipeg Free Press|publisher=FP Canadian Newspapers|date=January 12, 2017}} Under the 3 brands, Charm Diamond Centres, Crescent Gold and Diamonds and Ben Moss Jewellers 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.