Diamonds as an investment

The diamond industry employs 38,000 people, directly in Southern Africa, the main industrial location for diamonds). This employment provides shelter, food and clean water for people working in the mines. In South Africa, a rough 28,000 people are employed for cutting, mining, valuing, polishing, jewelry manufacturing, and retail. These few job opportunities open doors for workers to live under a roof, to get their kids educated, to obtain appropriate health care and much more. "We know that…

Olympics was canceled and with a weak market for corporate meetings, the focus shifted to independent travelers. Plans for two sister ships were quickly shelved. Despite all the challenges, within two years Radisson Diamond Cruises achieved financial stability. The Radisson Diamond was operating at nearly 90 percent of capacity and profitable, but unlike the original business plan, 75 percent of the passengers were independent travelers. Management was also continuing to look for expansion…

Is Insuring Your Engagement Ring Important? Getting engaged is one of the most joyful moments in the life of a woman. It is a time of joy and a lot of positive emotions. So, terms like insurance rarely come to mind in times like this. However, the truth is that anything can happen. So, the best thing that can be done is to be prepared. This is why amidst all the engagement joy and excitement, you ought to take into consideration buying insurance policy for your engagement ring. Another reason…

this omission would somehow exonerate them from the actual breach they committed (since I agree with the ruling), that since they did not provide the materials necessary for Double Diamond to complete their work, construction was halted and that was not considered a breach on the part of Double Diamond. Had Double Diamond had the proper materials, which they dutifully sought from both Mills and ABC (the supplier that Mills used), the project would have been completed. The appellate court found…

There was correlation between the competition to control natural resources, massive corruption, and civil wars. Foreign investment and war, researchers observe that governments in Angola that have large resource bases tend to do a poor job of building efficient state institutions. This is because governments that gain most of their revenues from sales of minerals are freed…

Diamond Caverns Resort & Golf Club is located near Mammoth Cave National Park in Park City, Kentucky, and is surrounded by 743 of forest and recreational areas especially designed to provide a wonderful vacation for adults and children. It has an 18-hole golf course, walking trails and hiking and biking trails as well as a playground, mini golf course, swimming pool and clubhouse, where you will find a billiards or pool table. Close by you will find horseback riding, fishing, a driving range, a…

perfect proposal. Is it a man getting down on one knee and presenting a sparkling diamond ring to his now fiancee? While there is nothing wrong with a grand romantic gesture like a proposal, there are a few issues revolving diamond engagement rings. It has become a tradition for female brides-to-be to flaunt them, but how did this originate and why do we still do it today? Because they serve no real meaningful purpose, diamond engagement rings should not continue to be used in proposals.…

With the use of the Salesforce Platform, Diamond Cluster Entertainment would be able to develop a deeper relationship with their loyal customers and attract new ones. With Salesforce CRM applications and their mobile cloud-computing model, businesses can follow their customers and their budget at the same time from anywhere (Salesforce, 2013). Salesforce also allows companies to build their own custom applications using their Force.com platform. This app can be downloaded on mobile devices or…

Porter’s National Diamond Model was proposed by Michael Porter, a famous strategic management scientist at Harvard Business School in the US Porter's diamond model is used to analyze why a certain country is more competitive internationally. There are four factors that determine a country's industrial competitiveness. Production factors including human resources, natural resources, knowledge resources, capital resources, and infrastructure. Demand conditions, mainly the needs of the domestic…

for the diamond industry" (66). The right-hand ring had an important legacy – it woke the trade up to the self-purchase segment and jewelry marketing hasn't been the same since (66). This point proves a very powerful impact created by this trend to the readers. Young transitions into her next point introducing the year colored diamonds were first offered in the trade after a big discovery at a mine followed by supporting evidence and quoting a speech. She talks about how colored diamonds are…