FACEts partners with fine jewelry retailers, manufacturers, designers, and brands to bring structure to the decisions that shape product, pricing, presentation, customer connection, and profitable growth.
Every engagement is custom. Every strategy is grounded in the 5 P’s of Merchandising™: Product, Price, People, Place, and Presentation.
The work may begin with an assortment, a store, a brand concept, a vendor relationship, or a growth opportunity. The objective remains the same: create greater clarity, discipline, and intentional merchandising across the business.
For retailers, manufacturers, brands, and designers with too much product, unclear collection structure, inconsistent pricing, or underperforming inventory.
FACEts brings a buyer’s lens and financial discipline to the assortment, identifying what deserves focus, what needs to change, and where the business may be leaving margin or momentum on the table.
What We Evaluate:
From product overwhelm to purposeful, profitable structure.

Building a clearer brand architecture for a couture designer navigating market disruption.
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Filtering 15,000+ SKUs into a focused 14K gold strategy for U.S. retailers.
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For retailers ready to transform existing inventory into more intentional, engaging, and commercially productive shopping experiences.
FACEts transforms product concepts into commercially viable market strategies. Whether developing proprietary collections for retailers or preparing manufacturers for wholesale, private-label, or direct-to-consumer growth, every engagement is grounded in market demand, customer relevance, and commercial execution.
Case-to-Story™ in Practice:
Because customers don’t shop categories. They shop stories.

Reimagining a 6,600-square-foot retail store through product placement and strategic storytelling.
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For established businesses refining their point of view and emerging brands pressure-testing whether their concept has a meaningful place in the market.
FACEts connects brand strategy with product and merchandising so the business is not only visually cohesive, but commercially clear.
Building the Brand Foundation:
Defining how a jewelry brand earns its place in the market.

Turning overlooked inventory into story-driven collections with commercial purpose.
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For manufacturers, vendors, and retailers bringing new products, collections, or business concepts to market.
FACEts bridges the gap between product capability, retailer expectations, and customer relevance. From developing proprietary collections for retailers to shaping wholesale, private-label, and direct-to-consumer strategies for manufacturers,
Market Readiness Focus:
Connecting product capability with commercial opportunity.

Transforming design and merchandising concepts into scalable collections for a US jewelry conglomerate.
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Unlocking value in the vault for a fine jewelry manufacturer expanding into direct-to-consumer retail.
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For CEOs, founders, and executive leadership teams seeking a trusted strategic partner to shape decisions, challenge assumptions, and translate vision into commercial execution.
Nan serves as an extension of executive leadership, bringing an independent perspective informed by working across the jewelry industry. She provides executive counsel that brings clarity to complex decisions, aligns cross-functional teams, strengthens strategic partnerships, and turns vision into commercial execution.
How We Partner:
Executive merchandising leadership, scaled to the needs of the business.

Translating manufacturing capability into new product concepts, brand architecture, and commercial opportunity.
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For conferences, buying groups, industry organizations, trade publications, and media outlets.
Nan is a trusted industry voice on merchandising, consumer behavior, and the business of jewelry. Her insights translate market shifts, emerging technologies, and commercial strategy into clear, actionable perspectives for business leaders, trade publications, conferences, and media.
Practical insight. Straight talk. Strategies built for the realities of an ever-evolving jewelry business.
Each engagement is custom. These starting points help determine fit before scheduling a call.
Desgined around a defined business challenge, launch, show, store reset, or assortment opportunity.
Excludes travel. Best for store resets, showroom reviews, case strategy, and hands-on merchandising transformation.
Best for CEOs, founders, and owners who need ongoing merchandising leadership and accountability.
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For Businesses with too much product, unclear collection structure, or no system for what belongs where.
For retailers whose showcases are full but the story is unclear.
For manufacturers, brands, and designers that need stronger positioning and retail ready product direction.
For CEOs, founders, and owners who need senior merchandising leadership without hiring a full-time executive.
For manufacturers, brands, and designers that need stronger positioning and retail ready product direction.
For CEOs, founders, and owners who need senior merchandising leadership without hiring a full-time executive.