De Beers

For centuries, diamonds have been regarded as one of the most valuable commodities in the world and the industry has evolved into billions of dollars. At the top, De Beers dominated the entire industry worldwide, from exploration to retail selling. However, it has a reputation of a monopolist, where it influences supply and demand. The two critical factors that De Beers carefully maintained throughout the century to remain in monopoly was to create the illusion of the scarcity of the diamonds and to keep the prices high. Realizing the benefits of the cooperation and the dangers of the oversupply, most

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The diamond cartel shifts the market equilibrium to the shareholders’ preference – as shown in figure 3. This way a higher profit is made from the sales of diamonds because of the perceived scarcity. Rhodes was insightful to use the number of wedding engagements as a ballpark figure for the supply of diamonds (Bergenstock and Maskulka: 2001)

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“We covet diamonds in America for a simple reason: the company that stands to profit from diamond sales decided that we should.”

The De Beers Group of Companies established itself in the diamond industry in the late 1800’s and it was only a matter of time until De Beers owned virtually every diamond mine in South Africa. Diamond distributors joined up with De Beers because of similar interests: they wanted to create a scarcity of diamonds, so that high prices would follow. Eventually, De Beers would establish exclusive contracts with suppliers and buyers, making it impossible to deal with diamonds outside of De Beers. For the remainder of the 20th century, the business model was the same: A subsidiary of De Beers would buy the diamonds and De Beers would determine the amount of diamonds they wanted to sell, and at what prices. In turn, De Beers funneled all of the

The story of these infamous diamonds all started with a fifteen year old who found a diamond in his father 's arm. The diamond business started in 1935 when “De Beers” took all control over dining prospects in Sierra Leone. De Beers are a group of companies has a main role in the exploration of diamonds, as well as diamond mining, diamond retail, diamond trading, and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors.This group was founded in 1888, and they are responsible for the problems Sierra Leone is facing today. These diamonds can be found in volcanic pipes. Diamonds are a pure form of carbon in a transparent state. Diamonds have always been a sign of wealth. Historically kings and queens were known for wearing these. Over time many people began lusting over them.

However there is also a advantage for mining diamonds. This is most effective in Africa, diamonds is an essential part in Africa to increase the economic growth and therefore again increasing the GDP per capita in Africa. Some statistics have shown that if there wasn’t diamond mining in Africa.(DTC Indian Diamond shortage, n.d.) Africa will be in a even worse situation. An approximate 65% of the diamonds comes from Africa and some African countries such as Namibia have an annual export earning of 40%, therefore an big impact in the Namibia society. Also there it is known that because of diamond industry in Botswana children are able to have free education until the age of 13. (DTC Indian Diamond shortage, n.d.) Therefore from these sources it is shown that although the profit that is earned by mining diamonds are used in an incorrect way. However there are also positive impact on the society, as said above.

More than half of the goods were refused or deferred at DeBeers' recent Sight,. According to Sightholders, 60-90 percent of the offered rough was turned down. A few even turned down the entire allocation. Now, Sightholders say they'll buy rough diamonds only if they can make a profit.

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The film marker is trying to raise awareness of the illicit conflict diamond trade and reinforcing the Kimberley process1 and showing how it will stem the flow of conflict diamonds. This is successful mainly due to the public outburst after the movie. The great impact of the movie has caused diamond

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Color. Clarity. Cut. Carat Weight: These four words are what jewelers in the industry use to determine the monetary value of a diamond. However in 1947 De Beers found a way to not only boost their sales but also make a psychological necessity out of this sparkly stone, and it all began with four vastly different words, “A Diamond Is Forever” (Frances Garety), and accompanied by phrases such as “Isn’t two months’ salary a small price to pay for something that lasts forever (N.W. Ayers)?