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Bain & Company, a leading global business consulting firm, offering solutions on issues of strategy and operations, works with over 2,700 major multinational corporations across every economic sector, including the diamond mining industry.
The first half of 2012 ended in a state of despair for the diamond industry. Prices have softened and trading is muted all around. De Beers and ALROSA have reduced supplies but maintained high prices, despite that liquidity in the manufacturing sector has tightened.
At first glance, the details were promising. The Asia Diamond Trading & Investment Summit 2012, to be held in Shanghai in October, has all the ingredients for a fascinating conference on a topical issue – diamonds as an investment opportunity. The themes of the two-day conference include “Understanding the global investment diversification – balancing the risk and reward [sic]” […]
The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) has informed its sightholders that they can defer goods at the next DTC sight as diamond cutters face tight liquidity and low profit margins.
Diamonds are a very complex product due to their high degree of quality and price differentiation. There are thousands of shape, size, color, clarity and cut combinations traded in markets with restricted price and availability information.
Press Release: Diamond dealers and retailers now have lower-cost options to confirm the nature of their diamond inventory.
Global Witness called for urgent action to prevent a businessman in China from financing Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe’s military regime. According to the group’s report published today, ”Financing a Parallel Government?,” Global Witness revealed that Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) received financing from a Hong Kong-based businessman at the same time that the CIO is […]
A customs report has alerted the government that conflict diamonds are finding their way into India for processing, and then exported to the U.S. and European markets. More than 48,000 carats of conflict diamonds were seized in Surat and Mumbai in the past year.
Even though Zimbabwe’s cabinet agreed last week to ensure that diamond revenue is remitted to the treasury, smuggling, looting and leaks in the pipeline will remain serious problems unless urgent measures are taken to curb them. When Zimbabwe held mass diamond sales in India in November 2011, bargain hunters from as far as Israel, Lebanon and China […]
Two major trends are currently engulfing the diamond market – branding and ethical consumerism. Savvy diamond firms across the pipeline would do well to enmesh the two. Ultimately, a company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, which defines its ethical practice, should enhance and not diminish its brand.
This may not be a good time to consider marketing – considering the tough state of diamond jewelry. At the same time, it is precisely because of times like this that generic marketing is so missed. The times really are tough. Miners are mining less, manufacturers are suffering from the high rough prices and low polished […]
The rough diamond sector is in trouble. Not only the low demand, high costs, increasing inventories, weak polished prices or low liquidity testifies to this. People are also pessimistic. So much so, that they apologize for their gloomy descriptions.