NATIONAL JEWELER 37 2005 SINGLE-STORE INDEPENDENT: Howard Tapper, Tapper’s Diamonds & Fine Jewelry, West Bloomfield, Michigan MULTI-STORE INDEPENDENT: Marion Halfacre, Traditional Jewelers, Newport Beach, California MAJORS: Jeffrey Comment, Helzberg Diamonds, North Kansas City, Missouri 2004 SINGLE-STORE INDEPENDENT: Ellen Lacy, Lacy & Co., El Paso, Texas MULTI-STORE INDEPENDENT: John Green, Lux Bond & Green, West Hartford, Connecticut MAJORS: Robert Wexler, Tourneau, New York 2007 SINGLE-STORE INDEPENDENT: Woody Justice, Justice Jewelers, Springfield, Missouri MULTI-STORE INDEPENDENT: Marc Fink, Fink’s Jewelers, Roanoke, Virginia MAJORS: Michael Kowalski, Tiffany & Co., New York 2006 SINGLE-STORE INDEPENDENT: Bill Sites Sr., Sites Jewelers, Clarksville, Tennessee MULTI-STORE INDEPENDENT: Georgie Gleim, Gleim the Jeweler, Palo Alto, California, and R. Andrew Johnson, Diamond Cellar Holdings, Columbus, Ohio MAJORS: John Cohen, Carlyle & Co., Greensboro, North Carolina ES