About F.Hinds - A Family Business Since 1856

F.Hinds was established in 1856 and has been independently run and family owned ever since. With over 115 stores in the UK, perhaps you have noticed us on your local high street or in your favourite shopping centre? We proudly opened our newest store in Bath in October 2022 with the hope of more to come in the near future. Not only this, we are showing our existing branches a little love, modernising the look and feel of shop floors and displays to create the best experience possible for our valued customers.

In 2013 we welcomed Paul into the Hinds family business, with his brother Jeremy not long after – together representing the 7th generation of Hinds to play an active role in the running of the company. Paul's wife gave birth to Nicholas in 2015 with daughter Rosalind following a few years later and in 2020 Jeremy and his wife welcomed son Angus. Exciting things to come from all three in the future!

With roughly 1,000 members of staff across the branches and Head Office (some of which boast careers spanning decades!) we offer a comprehensive, award winning training program with a unique working atmosphere. We were thrilled to be voted Family Business of the Year 2014, Multiple Fashion Jewellery Retailer of the Year in 2019 and 2021 plus received the Outstanding Contribution to the Industry award at the Professional Jeweller awards in 2022.

We would love to see you in store browsing our handpicked jewellery or our extensive watch and gift ranges.

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Up until the 1960s, our loose diamonds were set into rings and jewellery by a single craftsman in Birmingham. However, from the early fifties, rings were also created in the F.Hinds workshops and when the Birmingham goldsmith retired, we took on his work and were making most of the diamond rings in-house. Back then, engagement ring designs were classic and changed little over the years so this was relatively straightforward.

Designs in those days were classic and traditional. When customer tastes became more adventurous we realised that, while we were experts in the high quality manufacturing of diamond solitaire rings, we were not specialists in manufacturing rings with multiple stones or those with a smaller diamond content; both styles which changed more frequently.

Jewellery manufacturing expertise was spreading around the world meaning thousands of new designs were being produced every year, with influences coming from many countries and cultures. As a result, fashions were changing much more rapidly including engagement rings and wedding jewellery which had historically remained very traditional. F.Hinds therefore started to source the latest designs from across the globe to bring a choice to customers shopping on UK high streets.

However, a healthy proportion of our jewellery is still made in the UK, including our range of certificated diamond solitaires, which are individually selected and sourced from all over the world by our experienced gemmologist Andrew Hinds. These are then individually made to order by our craftsman in his Birmingham workshop, just like we did well over 60 years ago. The quality and service we can provide this way has truly stood the test of time.