{"id":29187,"date":"2025-07-29T05:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29187\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T05:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:10:09","slug":"jewellery-brand-founder-dies-at-the-age-of-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29187\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewellery brand founder dies at the age of 86"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Michael Hill, the founder of global jewellery brand Michael Hill, has died aged 86.<\/p>\n

Hill started the company in New Zealand and expanded to Australia and Canada.<\/p>\n

The stores are a feature of many Australian shopping centres\ufeff, with more than 170 stores nationally.<\/p>\n

\"HillHill started the company in New Zealand and expanded to Australia and Canada. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

Michael Hill International confirmed in a statement the businessman died \ufeffthis morning.<\/p>\n

“Sir Michael was a celebrated jeweller, entrepreneur, philanthropist and committed father and husband,” the company said.<\/p>\n

“Sir Michael’s first love was music and, as a young man, he dreamed of becoming a concert violinist.<\/p>\n

\"CEOThe founder of Michael Hill International Limited, Sir Michael Hill, has died. (Peter Braig)<\/p>\n

“However, at just 17, he was told he had started too late to reach the pinnacle of his craft.<\/p>\n

“Forced to reconsider his future, he pivoted into the world of jewellery, joining his uncle’s family-owned store in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

“What began as a job soon became a passion.”<\/p>\n

\"\"\/There are more than 170 Michael Hill jewellers in Australia. (AAP)<\/p>\n

The company praised Hill’s \ufeffnatural gift for storytelling, keen eye for visual merchandising, instinct for attracting customers and gift for selling.<\/p>\n

“He won international awards for his window displays and revolutionised the store’s advertising with bold, unconventional campaigns,” he said.<\/p>\n

Hill is survived by his wife Lady Christine, their two children and grandchildren.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Michael Hill, the founder of global jewellery brand Michael Hill, has died aged 86. Hill started the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-29187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}