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8 unusual facts about De Beers


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De Beers, a Johannesburg-based diamond mining and trading corporation

Gordon Torr

He spent three years as Creative Director of JWT Mexico, based in Mexico City, before transferring to London as Global Creative Director of De Beers and, subsequently, of Diageo, Kellogg’s and Vodafone.

Landon Pigg

In 2007, his song "Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop" was featured in a De Beers commercial, and later on an AT&T telephone commercial.

Malay Camp, Kimberley

The Malay Camp in Kimberley, South Africa, with a history similar to Cape Town's District Six, Johannesburg's Sophiatown and Port Elizabeth's South End, was a cosmopolitan suburb originating in the early days of Kimberley's existence but subject to forced 'slums clearance' after the owner of the land (De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd) donated the area to the Kimberley Municipality in 1939.

Mimi So

In 2012, she was selected as a featured designer by De Beers for the Forevermark Diamond campaign.

Olga Sosnovska

TV commercials for De Beers diamonds 2004 and Thomasville Furniture (voice-over) 2005

Philip Bawcombe

H.F. Oppenheimer hailed Philip Bawcombe’s Kimberley (1976) as capturing “the spirit and portraying the fabric of old Kimberley,” announcing that De Beers had acquired the original collection for permanent display.

Siege of Kimberley

Engineers of the De Beers company manufactured a one-off gun named Long Cecil, however the Boers soon countered with a much larger siege gun that terrified the residents, forcing many to take shelter in the Kimberley Mine.


Diplomatic Area, Bahrain

The mall also features a number of fine jewelry boutiques including De Beers, Tiffany & Co., Boucheron, Chopard, Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier and Rolex, among others.

John Vallins

later from EMI Studios where he produced multi award winning tracks for clients like American Express, Apple Inc., Dilmah Tea, De Beers, Domino’s Pizza, and many more.

Madi Phala

Phala's work is represented in several private and corporate art collections, including the French Embassy; De Beers, London, as well as Minister Pallo Jordan and art historian Barbara Lindop.

NDTC

NDTC (the Namibia Diamond Trading Company) is a 50/50 joint venture between the Republic of Namibia and the DTC; the mining and sorting arm of De Beers.

Tysons Galleria

Several designers, including Bottega Veneta, Chanel, David Yurman, De Beers, Elie Tahari, Salvatore Ferragamo, Tory Burch, and Versace, have their only state-wide and Baltimore-Washington area boutiques in Tysons Galleria.

William Boyce Thompson

By the time of his death, Newmont Mining was one of the three largest mining companies in the world after Cecil Rhodes's De Beers and Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's Anglo American plc.


see also

Big Hole

On the 13 March 1888 the leaders of the various mines decided to amalgamate the separate diggings into one big mine and one big company known as De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, with life governors such as Cecil John Rhodes, Alfred Beit and John Rhodes.

Element 6

Element Six (formerly De Beers Industrial Diamond) - a company specialised in providing superhard material solutions such as synthetic diamond, cubic boron nitride for industrial applications

Gabi Tolkowsky

During this time, Gabi Tolkowsky was again tapped by the De Beers group in order to design and cut the Golden Jubilee Diamond.

The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds

Former CDM manager, Gordon Brown, claimed that for 20 years De Beers had been stripping Namibia of its most precious asset - diamonds at Oranjemund.

Willi Fels

Fels' family were prominent in the arts and culture of southern New Zealand for many years, his cousins, the De Beers (including Esmond Samuel de Beer), and grandson Charles Brasch also making a permanent mark on the country's cultural life.