De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited/De Beers Centenary AG History

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Further Reading:

• Barnes, William, "De Beers Denies Branding Will Hit Diamond Market," Financial Times, July 31, 1998, p. 30.
• Behrmann, Neil, "De Beers's Diamond Cartel Shows Flaws," Wall Street Journal, October 31, 1994, p. C1.
• Carley, William M., "Fatal Flaws: How the Federal Case Against GE, De Beers Collapsed So Quickly," Wall Street Journal, December 28, 1994, pp. A1+.
• Chilvers, Hedley A., The Story of De Beers, London: Cassell and Company, 1939.
• Curtin, Matthew, "De Beers Faces Challenge to Its Power: Dominance in Diamonds Threatened by Russia, Canada," Wall Street Journal, August 22, 1994, p. A5B.
• Dawley, Heidi, and William Echikson, "Cracks in the Diamond Trade," Business Week, March 2, 1998, p. 106.
• "De Beers Is It," Economist, December 19, 1998, p. 89.
• Frank, David, "Unbundling into Power," Euromoney, September 1992.
• "Friends Again," Economist, March 2, 1996, pp. 59--60.
• Fuhrman, Peter, "The Rough Trade in Rough Stones," Forbes, March 27, 1995, pp. 47+.
• "Glass with Attitude," Economist, December 20, 1997, pp. 113+.
• Gooding, Kenneth, "De Beers Digs Deeper into Its Resources," Financial Times, September 6, 1994, p. 32.
• ----, "Oppenheimer Connection Continues at De Beers," Financial Times, October 7, 1997, p. 25.
• ----, "Quiet Heir Apparent to a Mining Empire," Financial Times, August 19, 1996, p. 8.
• ----, "Steep Fall in Diamond Sales by De Beers," Financial Times, June 18, 1998, p. 32.
• Green, Timothy, The World of Diamonds, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981, 300 p.
• Gregory, Theodore, Ernest Oppenheimer and the Economic Development of Southern Africa, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1962.
• Hilzenrath, David S., and Steven Pearlstein, "U.S. Probing Possible Price-Fixing by GE," Washington Post, April 23, 1992.
• Hocking, Anthony, Oppenheimer and Son, Johannesburg: McGraw-Hill, 1973, 526 p.
• "Is It a Crack or a Scratch?," Economist, September 12, 1992.
• Jamieson, Bill, Goldstrike: The Oppenheimer Empire in Crisis, London: Hutchinson Business Books, 1990.
• Jessup, Edward, Ernest Oppenheimer: A Study in Power, London: Rex Collins, 1979, 357 p.
• Kanfer, Stefan, The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993, 409 p.
• Kvint, Vladimir, "Sorry, Mr. Oppenheimer," Forbes, February 15, 1993, pp. 42--43.
• McNeil, Donald G., Jr., "A Diamond Cartel May Be Forever," New York Times, January 12, 1999, pp. C1, C4.
• Melcher, Richard A., and Deborah Stead, "Can De Beers Hold On to Its Hammerlock?," Business Week, September 21, 1992, pp. 45+.
• Newbury, Colin, The Diamond Ring Business, Politics and Precious Stones in South Africa, 1867-1947, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
• Pallister, David, Sarah Stewart, and Ian Lepper, South Africa Inc.: The Oppenheimer Empire, rev. ed., London: Simon & Schuster, 1987, 382 p.
• "Prince of Diamonds," Economist, December 13, 1997, p. 60.
• Reeve, Simon, "De Beers' Market Stranglehold Isn't for Ever," European, July 6, 1998, pp. 24+.
• Schiller, Zachary, and Catherine Yang, "This Diamond Case Had Too Many Flaws," Business Week, December 19, 1994, p. 34.
• Shor, Russell, "De Beers Versus the Bear Market: Who Will Win?," Jewelers Circular Keystone, June 1995, pp. 122+.
• ----, "Russia to De Beers: 'We Want More Control,"' Jewelers Circular Keystone, January 1993.

Source: International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 28. St. James Press, 1999.

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