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  www.miningmx.com | radio It was an emotional decision - Nicky Oppenheimer, E. Oppenheimer & Son
Ernest Oppenheimer, Nicky's grandfather, was the founder of Anglo American in the nineteenth century.
Oppenheimer said the sale was to provide for the family generations henceforth which required diversity.
The Oppenheimers were confident in the future of Anglo American which recently appointed a new CEO in Cynthia Carroll, an American currently working for aluminium producer, Alcan.
www.miningmx.com /radio/403927.htm   (252 words)

  
 Interview: Nicky Oppenheimer, chairman of De Beers | | Guardian Unlimited Business
Nicky Oppenheimer, chairman of the diamond group, believes the whole aid and debt cancellation mission of Bob Geldof and Tony Blair is misguided if not detrimental to the future of that continent.
Oppenheimer might, at first glance, seem to be another loud-mouthed member of the global business community who knows the answer to everything, but this is not his style at all.
Oppenheimer may be a smart businessman who likes to fly his own helicopter, but he is essentially a down-to-earth type with none of the cultural pretensions that can come with such a position.
business.guardian.co.uk /story/0,,1519699,00.html   (1624 words)

  
 Print Article: De Beers heir tries on his diamond crown
Significantly, Oppenheimer chose to be interviewed in his father's office at the headquarters of De Beers' diamond-selling division - the Diamond Trading Co - in London.
Nicky became personal assistant to the chairman at 23, though he was long seen as labouring in his father's shadow until he took over as chairman.
Oppenheimer has said the legislation is more about fl "enrichment not empowerment" and has warned that it will threaten new investment.
www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/04/25/1050777407014.html   (1484 words)

  
 Forbes Faces: Nicky Oppenheimer - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Oppenheimer had made clear the need to reposition the company for the new millennium.
Nicky's first job was in 1968 as personal assistant to the chairman of Anglo American, the largest shareholder in AngloGold, a diversified natural resources group that has a cross-holding structure with De Beers.
In contrast to flashy diamonds, Oppenheimer is understated in appearance.
www.forbes.com /2001/01/17/0117faces.html   (713 words)

  
 www.mineweb.net | whats_new Selling out of De Beers?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
There are a few scenarios: Oppenheimer may either want to increase his stake (and he may want to buy Botswana’s stake; or, once more, try to purchase the Anglo American part) or sell his 40 percent stake (most likely to Anglo American).
If the Oppenheimer’s are truly determined to continue a vital (dominant) role in De Beers in the future, it would make sense for them to purchase the 15 percent stake of Botswana.
When signing some of the new agreements in December 2005, Nicky Oppenheimer made some nice and polite words to the effect that “Botswana and De Beers are like Siamese twins, locked together, each benefiting from the other.” This may turn out to be much more wishful thinking than reflecting reality.
www.mineweb.net /whats_new/749976.htm   (2005 words)

  
 Mammon: Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman, De Beers | Business | The Observer
Nicky Oppenheimer, the multi-billionaire gems baron, is only too aware of the radically different terrain.
Nicky Oppenheimer and his son Jonathan - tipped as the heir-apparent 'as long as he performs' - like to repeat the slogan, coined by Sir Ernest, that 'De Beers is here to make a profit, but it should benefit the peoples and countries in which we operate.'
Oppenheimer stresses that the company has for years been at the forefront of corporate social responsibility in areas where it mines, building roads, sewerage and water systems, opening orphanages and helping to maintain hospitals.
observer.guardian.co.uk /business/story/0,6903,1406742,00.html   (1287 words)

  
 BOPA Daily News Archive
Nicky acquired a lot of advantage from his family background as his grand father Enerst Oppenheimer arrived and started business in South Africa from Germany in 1902.
Nicky has always been committed to making a difference, which has ignited his success in a wide range of aspects.
Nicky Oppenheimer started his career in 1968 as Personal Assistant to the Chairman of De Beers after completing his education at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
www.gov.bw /cgi-bin/news.cgi?d=20040927&i=Nicky_Oppenheimer_up_for_presidential_honour   (724 words)

  
 Trade not aid, says Oppenheimer
Nicky Oppenheimer, chairman of De Beers, gave a speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London recently.
Naturally Africa is not going to turn down debt cancellation or huge aid packages, but Oppenheimer suggests that Africa might be getting tired of being regarded as a charity case and has begun to distrust the motives of the donors, suspecting them of forwarding their own agendas: such as political one-up-manship.
Oppenheimer cites the Kimberley Process as an example of successful and effective cooperation between African governments, NGOs and the diamond industry to resolve the issue of conflict diamonds speedily.
www.tralac.org /scripts/content.php?id=3729&print=1   (514 words)

  
 Euro2day :: Chinese tycoon puts $800m into Anglo
Nicky Oppenheimer, the chairman of De Beers and the grandson of founder Ernest Oppenheimer, said the family "continues to have every confidence in the future of Anglo American" and believed the appointment of Ms Carroll was "the right person to lead Anglo into the future".
Mr Oppenheimer said the stake had been sold because E Oppenheimer & Son, the family's investment company, wished to "diversify its assets".
James Teegar, group managing director of E Oppenheimer & Son, denied the sale was the first step to the family disinvesting entirely from Anglo.
www.euro2day.gr /articlesfna/23747959   (966 words)

  
 Diamond Registry: Oppenheimer Family To Increase Control of De Beers - Mar.2001
Nicky Oppenheimer said he made the decision after coming "to the conclusion that the best way forward would be to take De Beers private." The Oppenheimer family will increase its holdings to 45% from 2.6%.
Nicky Oppenheimer said that the new deal would mean "no change" in its long-running battle with U.S. competition authorities.
Now Nicky is putting his stamp by vertically integrating De Beers to reach from the mine to the final customer.
www.diamondregistry.com /News/2001/oppenheimer.htm   (462 words)

  
 business.iafrica.com | transcripts Why the Oppenheimers sold Anglo
Nicky, nice to talk to you this evening, and without doubt the big story of the moment is your family's decision to sell a third of your stake in Anglo-American.
Well, one obviously looks for somebody who is going to be able to build on Tony's success, build team loyalty and drive Anglo forward as a world-wide mining company and she certainly seems to have all the assets to do just that.
Nicky Oppenheimer, thank you very much for talking to us this evening.
business.iafrica.com /transcripts/408688.htm   (681 words)

  
 Not forever - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nothing lasts forever and with the death this August at 91 of Harry Oppenheimer, the South African diamond magnate and former CEO of the De Beers cartel, the end of an era in which the world's diamond supply is exclusively controlled by one company and one family may be at hand.
Oppenheimer inherited control of De Beers from his father, Sir Ernest, who seized the reins of the diamond empire of Cecil Rhodes -- eponymous founder of Rhodesia and the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships -- in 1929, mere months before the U.S. stock market crash.
Although it was Sir Ernest who built De Beers into a worldwide cartel, it was Harry Oppenheimer who strengthened his father's legacy through his ingenious sculpting of the public's demand for the rock.
dir.salon.com /business/feature/2000/09/27/diamonds/index.html   (448 words)

  
 www.mineweb.net | co_releases De Beers’ Chairman Nicky Oppenheimer to be keynote speaker at 2007 CIBJO Congress, March ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
De Beers’ Chairman Nicky Oppenheimer to be Keynote Speaker at 2007 CIBJO Congress, March 12- 15, in Cape Town, South Africa
Milan, January 21, 2007 — Nicholas Oppenheimer, Chairman of the De Beers Group, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming 2007 CIBJO congress that will be held March 12-15 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, adjacent to the Congress venue hotel, the Arabella Sheraton Grand Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa.
Oppenheimer has been very outspoken about the absolute need for social and corporate responsibility in the diamond industry in particular and in the jewellery industry at large,” said CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri.
www.mineweb.net /co_releases/596996.htm   (317 words)

  
 BBC News | AFRICA | Zimbabwe clash with Oppenheimer dynasty
The Oppenheimer dynasty in South Africa is heading for a confrontation with the Zimbabwe Government over land reform.
The Oppenheimers control two of Africa's richest companies - the Anglo American Corporation and De Beers - and own 2.4 million acres of farmland in Zimbabwe - approximately the size of Belgium.
Now there are reports that deputy chairman Nicky Oppenheimer is under pressure to give up farms.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1646977.stm   (497 words)

  
 Salon.com Business | Not forever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
And an extremely calculated one -- the result of a marketing campaign developed at a time when the demand for diamonds had sunk to an all-time low and an increasing supply threatened the precious (as opposed to semiprecious) nature of the stones.
In the meantime, De Beers is carrying on the Harry Oppenheimer tradition of mentoring the diamond buyer through major life decisions.
Using its Web site, it answers all the objective questions about cut, clarity, color and carats, while paternalistically educating the consumer about the symbolic meaning of diamonds, an appropriate salary-to-expenditure ratio and how to glean the maximum psychological impact from the presentation of the gift.
archive.salon.com /business/feature/2000/09/27/diamonds/print.html   (2248 words)

  
 Nicky Oppenheimer & family, The World's Richest People - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Last year under new South African legislation, Oppenheimer was forced to sell 26% of De Beers to a fl empowerment group, the first major ownership change in a century.
Nicky's son Jonathan was replaced as managing director of De Beers' mining division by David Noko, the first fl executive to head the company's South African operations.
Oppenheimer eschews opera, theater and other past-times typically associated with men of his station—except for cricket.
www.forbes.com /lists/2006/10/2MY9.html   (249 words)

  
 The De Beers Story: Nicholas Stein
There was Harry's widow, Bridget, who had flown in from the family estate in South Africa; Harry's cousin Anthony Oppenheimer, the rotund, rumpled De Beers director; Anthony's daughter Sophie, escorted by her husband, De Beers' consumer-marketing chief, Stephen Lussier; and Harry's son Nicky, who in 1998 succeeded his father as chairman of De Beers.
We are standing in Oppenheimer's office, on the fifth floor of 17 Charterhouse Street, a modern, six-story stone-and-glass edifice on a quiet London cul-de-sac.
Like Nicky, Ralfe was born in South Africa and educated in England, and has been with the firm his entire career.
www.nicholas-stein.com /articles/debeers.htm   (5718 words)

  
 theage.com.au - The Age
In positioning himself as the next successor to the De Beers dynasty, Jonathan Oppenheimer concedes there are enormous challenges ahead.
The fourth generation of the Oppenheimer dynasty is preparing to take over the reins of the family business, De Beers.
De Beers, the world's diamond giant, has spent much of the last century or so cajoling, strong-arming or schmoozing the governments of the lands where it does business, generally getting its way.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/04/25/1050777407014.html   (1583 words)

  
 De Beers Exec: Diamonds Have Helped Africa - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
And like other industry leaders, Oppenheimer fears the film will taint the industry’s reputation, renewing controversy over the use of so-called “conflict diamonds” to fund some of Africa's bloodiest civil wars.
In London, De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer spoke to NEWSWEEK's Stryker McGuire and William Underhill.
Nicky Oppenheimer: The rough-diamond business is actually a long way from the [retail] store, all the excitement and pictures of beautiful women [in advertisements].
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/15187244/site/newsweek   (552 words)

  
 International Institute for Strategic Studies - 13 June 2005 - Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers
International Institute for Strategic Studies - 13 June 2005 - Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers
Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers and Dr John Chipman at the address on why "Africa needs a hand-up not a hand-out"
On Monday 13 June 2005 Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers, gave an address entitled "Africa needs a hand-up not a hand-out".
www.iiss.org /conferences/recent-key-addresses/nicky-oppenheimer-address   (106 words)

  
 www.miningmx.com | mining_fin Oppenheimer on Africa
[miningmx.com] -- DE BEERS chairman Nicky Oppenheimer isn’t exactly suspicious, but he wonders at the timing of the British government’s Commission for Africa, a 400-page report asking for an extra US$25bn in aid for Africa by 2010.
“I have an awful feeling that it suits their domestic agenda.” Speaking to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Britain, Oppenheimer was critical of Europe’s blanket version of African life.
There was too much misunderstood attention given to its instances of penury and not enough to its successes and diversity.
www.miningmx.com /mining_fin/457589.htm   (229 words)

  
 The Hindu : India opens tour against Oppenheimer XI
Nicky Oppenheimer XI has announced a squad of eleven for the tour opener against the Indians at Randjesfontein on Monday.
The diamond mining family has assembled eleven players, among whom, two have played Test cricket and eight in the highly competitive provincial cricket.
Nicky Oppenheimer XI (from): Jonathan Oppenheimer (Captain), Jacques Rudolph, Graeme Smith, Dale Benkenstein, Pieter Koortzen, Loots Bosman, Gulam Bodi, Kruger van Wyk, Garnett Kruger, Mornantau Hayward, Albie Morkel.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/2001/10/01/stories/07010283.htm   (701 words)

  
 allAfrica.com: Africa: Conflict Diamonds Getting Through Loopholes in Kimberley Process - Oppenheimer (Page 1 of 3)
Those conversations remind me that it is now too many years since I was last here in Israel, and I fear the passage of time might suggest some lack of interest on my part in the fortunes of the Israeli diamond industry or, indeed, of the State of Israel itself.
Israel, De Beers and the Oppenheimer family have had a long association ever since my great-uncle Otto first sold rough diamonds to Zvi Rosenberg and Ascher Daskal - the pioneers of the Israeli cutting industry, who had set up in Petah Tikva - back in 1938.
One of the most remarkable aspects of the diamond industry in Israel has been the consistent and determined backing it has received from the beginning from the Government of Israel - support to an extent that few industries anywhere in the world have enjoyed.
allafrica.com /stories/200606300188.html   (944 words)

  
 » England beat Nicky Oppenheimer XI by 8 wickets - The Corridor (a cricket blog)
» England beat Nicky Oppenheimer XI by 8 wickets - The Corridor (a cricket blog)
England beat Nicky Oppenheimer XI by 8 wickets
In no respect am I, or this site, The Corridor, associated with the owner of the (UK) trademark The Corridor of Uncertainty, the corresponding website and domain or the fanzine of the same name.
www.cricket.mailliw.com /archives/2004/12/08/england-beat-nicky-oppenheimer-xi-by-8-wickets   (200 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Ernest Oppenheimer": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
De Beers mounted Ernest Oppenheimer's "spring offensive." He has since boasted of this.
his vision of 'a diamond empire was taken up by Ernest Oppenheimer, a German who had come to South Africa to work as a diamond buyer and had quickly maneuvered himself into...
Smuts went to great lengths in 1922 to persuade Lionel Phillips, Solly Joel, the Albus, Ernest Oppenheimer, and other goldmine owners to invest in an iron and steel industry that would be partly state supported.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Ernest-Oppenheimer   (408 words)

  
 BlackintheCity.net - black news and entertainment - De Beers Exec: Diamonds Have Helped Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
And the joke of the day goes to De Beer chairman Nicky Oppenheimer who says that the diamond trade is helping Africa.
Newsweek interviews Oppenheimer and he had this to say about his company:
De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer says the industry has largely eliminated the problem of ‘conflict diamonds.’ [Newsweek]
www.blackinthecity.net /latest-news/economy/de-beers-exec-diamonds-have-helped-africa.html   (305 words)

  
 Nicky Oppenheimer Warm Up Game ! - Abc of Cricket Forum
Nicky Oppenheimer Warm Up Game ! - Abc of Cricket Forum
Nicky Oppenheimer Warm Up Game !, nice little intro
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