De Beers Group
De Beers Group
The De Beers Family of Companies
De Beers Société Anonyme (DBsa), has three shareholders: Anglo American (45%), Central Holdings (40% – representing the Oppenheimer family) and the Government of the Republic of Botswana (15%).
It is the holding company of what is regarded as the De Beers Group or “Family of Companies”.
De Beers is managed and controlled from its head office in Luxembourg. Its commercial activities are carried out by several associated subsidiaries and investments it finances in different parts of the world.
The Family of Companies is involved in most parts of the diamond value chain. This includes exploring for new deposits on four continents and industrial mining in Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa. It also includes the marketing of diamonds in 11 major consumer markets.
The Family of Companies employs about 15,000 people around the world.

[...] De Beers SA is the world’s largest diamond mining and marketing company. It is a private holding company. De Beers is engaged in the mining, refining and marketing of diamonds. The company operates 20 mines in Africa and is interested in synthetic diamonds and abrasive products manufacturing companies. It is owned by DB Investments. It is a consortium comprising Central Holdings Limited (40%), Anglo American (45%) and the Government of the Republic of Botswana (15%). Open pit, alluvial, underground, and coastal and undersea are the types of diamond mining De Beers has ventured into. The company principally operates in countries including Africa, Asia and Russia and North America. [...]
[...] Corp has filed a claim of Copyright Infringement against De Beers Societe Anonyme and others in the California Central District Court on December 8 [...]
[...] Corp has filed a claim of Copyright Infringement against De Beers Societe Anonyme and others in the California Central District Court on December 8 [...]
[...] the research and development arm of De Beers, has developed body scanning technology which is currently used on De Beers mines in South Africa [...]
[...] addition to the Jericho Diamond Mine assets, the Companies have a joint venture (50/50) with De Beers (the Polar Project) on lands overlying the diamondiferous Muskox kimberlite complex and a joint [...]
[...] are the remarks made by Gareth Penny, De Beers Group Managing Director, at the DTC Sightholder Reception at the National Portrait Gallery in [...]
[...] are the remarks made by Gareth Penny, De Beers Group Managing Director, at the DTC Sightholder Reception at the National Portrait Gallery in [...]
[...] pleased with the way these challenges have been met and with the leadership role fulfilled by De Beers and the DTC during the downturn. As the leading rough diamond supplier, we believe we played our [...]
[...] pleased with the way these challenges have been met and with the leadership role fulfilled by De Beers and the DTC during the downturn. As the leading rough diamond supplier, we believe we played our [...]
[...] Beardmore-Gray, formerly of De Beers, has resigned from the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Archangel Diamond [...]
[...] Diamond company De Beers diamond production from the Venetia diamond mine in South Africa in the first quarter of 2010 reached nearly 970,000 carats. [...]