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	Boycott De Beers
		De Beers and the Botswana government jointly run all the country's diamond mines.
		In May 2007 De Beers sold its diamond deposit at Gope (on the lands of the Kalahari Bushmen) to Gem Diamonds, for $34 million.
		Although De Beers had claimed that the find was 'sub-economic', Gem Diamonds plans to develop a mine at Gope as quickly as possible, and estimates that it contains more than $2.2 billion-worth of diamonds.
	www.boycottdebeers.com (235 words)

	De Beers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		De Beers was founded on 13 March 1888 by Cecil John Rhodes along with Charles Dunell Rudd.
		This campaign was described by De Beers' PR agency N.W. Ayer and Son as "a new form of advertising which has been widely imitated ever since" with "no brand name to be impressed on the public mind.
		De Beers settles from BBC News (17 July 2004).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/De_Beers (1564 words)

	Articles - De Beers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		De Beers distributes diamonds to favored customers (called ´´sightholders´´;) by selecting batches of diamonds themselves and offering them "as is".
		De Beers was founded on 13 March 1888 by Cecil John Rhodes.
		De Beers provided the funds to incarcerate the prisoners and also paid the state to allow the company to use the prisoners for prison labor.
	www.zdiamond.net /articles/De_Beers (996 words)

	Diamonds, De Beers, CSO
		De Beers proved to be the most successful cartel arrangement in the annals of modern commerce.
		He assured Lauck that De Beers had not called on any other American advertising agency with this proposal, and that if the plan met with his father's approval, N. Ayer would be the exclusive agents for the placement of newspaper and radio advertisements in the United States.
		De Beers needed a slogan for diamonds that expressed both the theme of romance and legitimacy.
	www.edwardjayepstein.com /diamond.htm (2358 words)

	De Beers - world's largest diamond miner. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		De Beers was a public-company but delisted and is once more a private corporation, now 100% owned by Luxembourg-registered DB Investments, a consortium of the Oppenheimer family interests via Central Investments DBI (45%) - a subsidiary of Central Holdings Ltd - plus Anglo American plc (45%) and the Debswana Group (10%).
		De Beers has a 50:50 joint venture with the Namibian Government - Namdeb Diamond Corporation (Pty) Ltd (www.debswana.com) - mining in the Sperrgebiet (forbidden territory) created by the German administration after diamonds were discovered in 1908.
		The Chairman of the Licensing Committee is a De Beers director.
	www.mine.mn /Placer_Stockfile_De_Beers.htm (931 words)

	Diamonds are for Shame
		One of the miners took me to speak with miners in a De Beers hostel by a diamond mine amid barbed wire encased wastelands and then into a township to his home where I was to stay, across the road from a diamond mine waste treatment plant.
		The city of diamonds on which the De Beers fortune was founded, the city that paid for the British empire to be expanded thoughout East Africa, was surrounded by poverty.
		De Beers had sold the waste at so much a truck load to licensed contractors whose job was to search the waste for diamonds that De Beers may have been missed, selling any found back to De Beers - the only permitted buyer.
	inquirer.gn.apc.org /afrodia.html (1915 words)

	De Beers buffs its image, but not all see the sparkle - Aug. 25, 2000
		De Beers insists it has been vigilant about not selling such diamonds over the last 18 months, and gives what it says is a diamond-solid commitment to ensure its gems don't come from war-torn zones.
		De Beers doesn't have corner shop locations nor does it make the rings proffered by many a marital suitor, but it holds a dominant position in the mining and marketing of the precious stones to wholesalers.
		De Beers estimates that only 4 percent of the world's diamonds come from strife-torn areas, and maintains that the diamond business has a broadly positive impact on African economies.
	money.cnn.com /2000/08/25/europe/diamonds (1634 words)

	brandchannel.com \| De Beers \| Luxury Brands\| brands \| brand \| branding news
		De Beers has been the imprimatur of the diamond market almost from its inception over a hundred years ago.
		De Beers is adroitly handling the other threat to the integrity of its reputation and that of diamonds as a whole: the specter of the so called "blood diamonds" or "conflict diamonds." These are stones from war-torn areas in Central Africa that have appeared on the market sold by insurgent forces to buy weapons.
		De Beers, having ensured that it could confidently describe the diamonds that it sells as conflict free, has also used its authority and expertise to urge and encourage the rest of the diamond industry to follow suit.
	www.brandchannel.com /features_effect.asp?id=34 (3363 words)

	An MBendi Profile - Organisation: De Beers Investments
		De Beers and its associated companies play a pivotal role in the world diamond industry.
		De Beers manages 18 mines in four countries and is responsible, with its partners De Beers Marine, Namdeb in Namibia and Debswana in Botswana, for more than 50% of world gem diamond production.
		De Beers has established a presence in the Canadian production scene through the acquistion of Winspear Resources, a junior who is developing a major deposit at Snap Lake in Nunavut, Canada.
	www.mbendi.co.za /codb.htm (422 words)

	Welcome to De Beers Canada
		De Beers Canada welcomes clarity on the Gahcho Kué environmental assessment process
		De Beers and GNWT confirm Snap Lake arrangements to support the secondary industry
		De Beers Canada And North Slave Metis Alliance Sign Impact Benefit Agreement For Snap Lake
	www.debeerscanada.com (230 words)

	Luís Cabral: De Beers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		De Beers Centenary AG has announced (July 12, 2000) that it will stop controlling the market for diamonds as it has done for the past seventy years or so.
		In this way, De Beers has managed to steadily increase the price of diamonds and keep control of one of the tightest cartels in the world.
		In addition to poor financial performance, De Beers's strategy shift was also prompted by the problem of ``blood'' diamonds, gems obtained from war-torn areas of Africa.
	luiscabral.org /iio/ch08/de_beers (314 words)

	De Beers lands $17.6bn bid from Anglo, Oppenheimers, and Botswana state - Feb. 15, 2001
		De Beers has been looking for a way to dismantle the cross-shareholdings with Anglo American that have been faulted for putting a damper on the stocks.
		De Beers produces some 43 percent of the global market for newly mined, rough-cut diamonds, but through alliances in places like Russia and Canada it controls two-thirds of the global marketing of newly mined production.
		De Beers said the South African Reserve Bank had approved the deal, but it still needed approval by shareholders and other government regulators.
	money.cnn.com /2001/02/15/worldbiz/debeers/index.htm (879 words)

	Endnotes
		Then there was the De Beers headquarters, which had originally been the headquarters of Barney Barnato, and the De Beers club, where many of the big deals had been struck.
		The policy of De Beers, and the Diamond Trading Company, is to allow journalists access to their public relations department but not to the actual executives outside of that department.
		They believed that De Beers was artificially restricting the flow of diamonds, both by stockpiling diamonds in their vault in London and by manipulating the open market so as to drive up the price.
	www.edwardjayepstein.com /diamond/endnotes.htm (4356 words)

	De Beers Antitrust Class Action - 2005 Settlement Receives Preliminary Approval from Court
		Plaintiffs alleged that De Beers, a privately held group of foreign-based companies, had monopolized the international diamond business through its control of mines and a web of agreements with diamond suppliers in other countries.
		De Beers denied the allegation and maintained that it is not subject to the jurisdiction of United States courts.
		Equally significant, De Beers agreed to an injunction requiring it to abide by the United States federal and state antitrust laws, and to submit to the jurisdiction of United States courts for enforcement of the injunction.
	www.lieffcabraser.com /debeers.htm (487 words)

	Mining Technology - De Beers Diamond Mine - Venetia - South Africa
		Avmin sold this interest to De Beers for $590 million in 2000, together with its 8% profits interest in the Finsch mine, with De Beers seeking to buy out the remaining Saturn holding to give the company full ownership over Venetia.
		De Beers Consolidated Mines was formed in 2004 as a fl economic empowerment vehicle for the group within South Africa.
		It is a 100% subsidiary of Luxembourg-based DB Investments/De Beers SA.
	www.mining-technology.com /projects/de_beers (880 words)

	De Beers SA - Knowmore
		De Beers Centenary controls the De Beers diamond mining interests outside of South Africa, such as 50% stakes in Debswana (with the government of Botswana) and Namdeb (with the government of Namibia), as well as mining interests in Canada, Russia, and Tanzania.
		De Beers SA is owned by three groups: the Anglo American and the Oppenheimer family (45% each) and Debswana Mining.
		De Beers had been buying $800m worth of diamonds from the Russian company every year, but made an agreement with the European commission in December of 2004 to limit their purchases to just $275m by 2010.
	www.knowmore.org /index.php/De_Beers_SA (1495 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| sections \| gems De Beers faces a resignation crunch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clearly, De Beers has been left in a quandary — it would like to convert from old-order to new-order, but the woman who heads the department responsible for dealing with government has suddenly quit only 18 months after joining the group.
		The transformation job at De Beers has to among the best in the industry, and Seopela is rumoured to be leaving to join Lonmin, a far smaller mining firm.
		Management of De Beers is dominated by the father and son team of Nicholas and Jonathan Oppenheimer, with the confident 35-year-old son responsible for DBCM.
	www.mineweb.net /sections/gems/420102.htm (922 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| sections \| gems De Beers starts afresh in Russia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		OSCOW (Mineweb.com) --De Beers has emphasized fresh diamond exploration and new mining opportunities in Russia during a visit this month to Russia's western and eastern diamond fields by Gareth Penny, the company's new managing director, and Ed Dowling, the recently named Executive Director of Mining and Exploration.
		De Beers sold its interest in Lomonosov to Alrosa several years ago, and it is in court in the US and Sweden to preserve its stake in Verkhotina.
		De Beers's principal international rivals, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Lev Leviev, are also actively considering opportunities in the same region.
	www.mineweb.net /sections/gems/485308.htm (646 words)

	F1 News > Ferrari and De Beers - Grandprix.com
		This embarrassment (which was settled in 2004 with De Beers pleading guilty and paying a fine) led to changes in the business with Nicky Oppenheimer becoming chairman in 1998.
		The first De Beers LV jewelry store opened in London in December 2002 and others have since followed in Japan, New York and Paris.
		De Beers LV is still to create any serious profits but is planning to increase its marketing spend to promote sales.
	www.grandprix.com /ns/ns16072.html (376 words)

	Survival International \| news
		The protest against De Beers is in support of the Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana who have been evicted from their lands, which have been carved up for diamond exploration.
		I would make that stand, and say no', whilst the current face of De Beers, Lily Cole, has told the press that she would refuse to work for De Beers again stating 'I was unaware of these matters when I was booked for the shoot'.
		De Beers is currently planning to take Lily Cole on a tour of Botswana.
	www.survival-international.org /news.php?id=1033 (433 words)

	American RadioWorks: With This Ring - The Diamond Mystique, page 1
		De Beers encouraged jewelers to distribute diamonds to top Hollywood stars for public appearances.
		By rewriting the equation between supply and demand, and calibrating that equation itself, De Beers became the most successful cartel of the 20th century.
		And because De Beers controlled the supply, the illusion of the value of diamonds was sustained." Hart said that De Beers first courted colonial rulers and then their African successors.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/diamonds/mystique1.html (691 words)

	Mining: De Beers Canada
		De Beers has been in the business of mining and marketing rough diamonds for over 100 years and is the only company active in every category of diamond mining: open-pit, underground, alluvial, coastal and deep sea.
		In each of these categories, De Beers possess an unrivalled diamond mining and recovery expertise and remains the world's lowest cost-per-tonne diamond producer through the use of leading edge mining and processing technology.
		In Canada, De Beers has two advanced projects, which are scheduled to begin production at the end of 2007.
	www.debeerscanada.com /files_2/mining.html (319 words)

	Beers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beers (Netherlands) - a town in the Netherlands part of Cuijk mun.
		De Beers - a Johannesburg-based diamond mining and trading corporation.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beers (107 words)

	brandchannel.com \| De Beers and Iman \| Celebrity Spokespersons \| Anti-brand Political and Social Activists\| brands \| ...
		In 2002, De Beers LV, the namesake of the famous South African mining corporation, pledged to put a hundred million dollars into a retail chain that would see the establishment of 100 stores throughout the world by 2012.
		De Beers has denied, time and again, having anything to do with the forced removals of the bushmen in Botswana.
		[De Beers] now appear to be rapidly backtracking from that position (which would also be a success for the campaign, if true).” Clarifying De Beers LV’s role in the fracas, Correy says, “We limit our concern solely to the role diamonds have played in the violation of bushman rights.
	www.brandchannel.com /features_effect.asp?pf_id=239 (2516 words)

	De Beers S.A. information and related industry information from Hoover's
		De Beers S.A. is the holding company of the De Beers mining interests around the world.
		It also controls the De Beers diamond mining interests such as 50% stakes in Debswana (with the government of Botswana) and Namdeb (with the government of Namibia), as well as mining interests in Canada, Russia, and Tanzania.
		De Beers SA, is owned by South African resources giant Anglo American (45%), the Oppenheimer family (40%) and the Government of Botswana (15%).
	www.hoovers.com /de-beers/--ID__55922--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml (455 words)

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