In Moti Ferder’s lucrative gem-pire, selling fine baubles to A-plus List clients is only half the mission. In the vault at Lugano Diamonds’ headquarters in Newport Beach, California, CEO Moti Ferder ...

On Monday evening, a few dozen shopkeepers and businesspeople gathered in the blue-carpeted hall of a conference center in the Italian-speaking city of Lugano, Switzerland, to learn how to start ...

Lugano Diamonds entered 2026 with new ownership in hopes to return to business as normal. The troubled jeweler, once considered a star performer of previous parent company Compass Diversified, on Nov.

Compass Diversified last week announced it has “restricted” investment in its troubled Lugano unit to focus on the eight other companies in its portfolio. Compass also announced it’s suspending its ...

Lugano Diamonds & Jewelry has filed for bankruptcy and is seeking a buyer, following lawsuit allegations earlier this year that its founder and former chief executive, Mordechai “Moti Ferder, ...

Today, the city of Lugano in Switzerland unveiled an incredible statue honouring Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s anonymous founder. I found this tribute incredibly inspiring and beautiful. The statue was ...

The small, almost perpetually sunny city of Lugano, located in Switzerland’s only Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, gracefully straddles a fine line between two identities—it is at once firmly rooted ...

Shattered Dreams: Lugano founder Moti Ferder resigned in April 2025 from the company he founded in 2004. He’s back in Tel Aviv. For several years, Lugano Diamonds was considered a jewel in Compass’ ...

Though it has been a year since Joshua Gaynor took over as president of Lugano, he still can’t help but marvel at the differences between this company and the one he came from. After seven years at ...

The fallout from a California-based diamond seller’s financial collapse has reached Pitkin County District Court, where three investor lawsuits tied to the jeweler’s former CEO and Aspen boutique have ...

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