Archive for the ‘Diamonds’ Category
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09 Nov
Taking the family out of business at De Beers
How many generations do family businesses last? Any idea? No, nor me, but my guess is that a small minority make it to the third generation and a tiny minority to the fourth.
Last Friday’s thunderbolt news in the diamond business is that the Oppenheimer family have decided to sell their 40% stake in De Beers to Anglo American for a tidy $5.1 billion.
We’ll come back to that, but first a bit of history (more…)
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03 Nov
How to ‘burn’ a big diamond
Not literally, you understand, that would be silly (although it’s a little known fact that diamonds do burn…).
No, this is about selling a diamond at auction, but perhaps (more…)
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09 Sep
Elizabeth Taylor’s diamonds up for auction in December
It’s one of the world’s most dazzling private collections of diamonds and other gems, and it belonged to the late Elizabeth Taylor who died in March at the age of 79 (more…)
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25 Aug
The 47th Street Blues
I spent the last couple of days in New York, and yesterday afternoon I went along to West 47th Street.
The street is packed with diamond and jewellery shops (more…)
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04 Aug
A fabulous contradiction: ‘fresh diamonds’
Bouncing around the webosphere this week I spotted a story about diamonds which throws some interesting light on the various ways (more…)
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13 Jul
Roughing it
And we’re back.
Diamondthrills has been roughing it for the last three months (more…)
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05 Apr
Russians dig carats; De Beers digs dollars
I like numbers (it must be my engineering background). They can tell stories, if you know where to look (more…)
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17 Mar
Diamondthrills on tour – in India
I’ve been a bit quiet on the Blog for a while because I’ve been busy with other projects, and one of those projects has brought me to India for 10 days (more…)
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17 Feb
Looking for trends in De Beers’ 2010 results
Diamond mining giant De Beers announced its 2010 results last Friday, and the headline numbers were impressive: sales up more than 50%, diamond prices (more…)
