Mr. Jenner-Clarke, whose first assignment was hunting diamonds for De Beers, never uses a computer.
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Chaumet, FRED and De Beers all achieved good performances in their own store networks.
De Beers cites western market recovery and emerging markets as foundations for continued growth.
De Beers has been banned from directly distributing and selling diamonds in the U.S. since 1948.
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In practice, Alrosa is likely to continue to sell most of its output to De Beers.
De Beers has rethought how it trades diamonds, and is facing stronger competition from rivals.
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In Botswana and Namibia there have been a few diamond-polishing factories backed by De Beers.
But De Beers does not want to be involved in that stage of diamond production.
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De Beers threw an elaborate bash Wednesday night in New York City, to celebrate its U.S. arrival.
But like a huge rough riddled with internal flaws, De Beers' monopoly has fractured over the last decade.
While we cannot yet cheaply turn ordinary carbon into competition for De Beers, we are heading that way.
But De Beers , founded by British-born colonial expansionist Cecil John Rhodes in 1880, never let that happen.
Spending any length of time with De Beers managers can feel like a visit to a religious sect.
Anglo already owns 7% of Billiton, but it has its hands full with its ongoing De Beers deal.
For De Beers, it confirms that the company's Central Selling Organisation will still control the world diamond trade.
For decades, it has been run as a cosy cartel by De Beers, a South African mining giant.
Yet none of this stopped De Beers from tearing the heart out of the diamond cartel this week.
The obvious step for De Beers now would be to take on Mr Leviev at his own game.
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Mr Nyerere nationalised it and it ran down, but in 1994 De Beers bought most of it back.
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By the 1930s, under the chairmanship of Ernest Oppenheimer, De Beers' cartel had near total sway over the trade.
But Mr Godsell sent him to De Beers, the diamond company in which Anglo American owns a 45% stake.
In the U.S., De Beers's slogan, "A Diamond is Forever, " glorifies eternal romance.
So, to avoid the risk of bad publicity, De Beers decided to market only those it dug up itself.
De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea.
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Jewelry brands Chaumet, De Beers and Fred, continued to develop their star collections.
The deal would end the cross-shareholding between Anglo and De Beers that has depressed the shares of both firms.
So far, so good if also, rather obviously, good for De Beers's own interests.
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Europe, where De Beers's Central Selling Organisation is based, could do far more.
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There are few companies to beat De Beers in selling a bright idea.
De Beers LV, as the partnership is known, hasn't made the expected splash.
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