One month after jeweler Mark Loren dropped three messages in a bottle from a helicopter into the Gulf of Mexico, a local fisherman has claimed the first prize. Wesley Skinner, 22, a commercial fisherman and senior at Florida Gulf Coast University, spotted the light green glass bottle floating at sea, about 30 miles offshore northwest [...]
Mark Loren, owner and founder of Mark Loren Designs, has announced a Valentine’s Day promotion that will have Southwest Florida residents looking to the shoreline for their sweetheart’s gift. Earlier today, Loren dropped three “messages in a bottle” from a helicopter along Lee County’s coastline. The bottles, each with the trademark “loren” logo etched [...]
Mark Loren, owner and founder of Mark Loren Designs, has earned the prestigious Editors’ Choice Spectrum Award from the American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) for creative design. For the competition, Mark Loren presented custom-designed 14K yellow and white gold earrings featuring polyhedral Agate druzy slices and green tourmalines, pink topaz, amethysts and diamonds. The earrings [...]
To the naked eye, it is impossible to see the difference between an earth-mined diamond and one that is synthetically or laboratory produced. Lab-created diamonds are made in a chamber with carbon gasses that are superheated, creating particles that crystallize into diamonds. The cost of created diamonds is anywhere from 10 to 40 percent lower [...]
Special Father’s Day package offers something unique for him, and for her Mark Loren Designs is offering a unique opportunity to own a piece of history, and to ride away on Mark Loren’s very own motorcycle, a 2005 Road King Harley Davidson. Available now through Father’s Day, the one-of-a-kind pendant frames a 1.42 carat fine, [...]
To celebrate Easter, chocolatier Norman Love Confections and jeweler Mark Loren Designs are teaming up and hiding 36 “EGGStraordinary” prizes throughout Lee and Collier counties including two GOLD eggs with “EGGStra” special prizes inside. During the week before Easter, March 19-27, prize bags from Norman Love Confections and Mark Loren Designs will be placed throughout [...]
Mark Loren, owner of Mark Loren Designs, invites the Southwest Florida community to join him in supporting Alzheimer’s awareness in honor of his father, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. In observance of National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, Mark Loren Designs will offer a special month-long promotion. During the month of November, Mark Loren Designs will [...]
Tickets and sponsorship opportunities for the Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida 2014 Business Hall of Fame, Lee County to be held April 17 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa. Tickets are available at www.jaswfl.org. During the dinner and awards ceremony, Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida will induct laureates Norman Love of Norman [...]
Local businesses, educators and community volunteers are invited to join Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida in honoring laureates Norman Love of Norman Love Confections and Mark Loren of Mark Loren Designs. Love and Loren will be inducted into the 2014 Business of Hall of Fame, Lee County, at a dinner and awards ceremony on April [...]
Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida will induct world-renowned chocolatier Norman Love and award-winning jewelry designer Mark Loren into the 2014 Business of Hall of Fame, Lee County, at a dinner and awards ceremony on April 17 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa. The prestigious award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who serve as role [...]
