Roni Stschik is one of the most unusual persons in the jewelry industry, since he is the most diversified professional, being the cutter and goldsmith, process man and innovating inventor, designer and manager of a young, but already famous company named Majestic Jewelry Ltd. Roni belongs to the third generation of diamantaires and inherited not only his family’s love for work with diamonds, but creativity. Jokingly he says that his company registers more patents than any other in Israel.
The Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant named after V.N. Gulidov is the world’s only manufacturer, which takes all the existing types of raw minerals to process them into eight precious metals: platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, osmium, as well as gold and silver. OAO Krastsvetmet refines about 50% of Russia’s gold and 98% of platinoids. The company’s outlook is described by its General Manager Igor Tikhov.
Her last name meaning “exemplary” suits her as no one else: the artist fanatically devoted to music, the singer for whom her profession is her passion and the paramount sense of life, the magnetic personality, Elena Obraztsova is the first Russian singer who received the status of a legend of the world vocal.Antwerp, July 22, 2008: The Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) has announced that the Fifth Antwerp Diamond Conference will take place in Antwerp on Monday, November 17, and Tuesday, November 18, 2008. This year’s conference will focus on the value of the diamond in all its facets, RAPAPORT reported.
Considered by many to the most important event of its type in the diamond industry, the 2008 Antwerp Diamond Conference will specifically examine the element of value in the diamond brand. It will consider the subject from the broadest possible perspective, looking at the diamond as a symbol of the primary human values of love and commitment, as an item that requires the business to be operated according to strict ethical values and as an item of significant monetary value.
“The passion that the diamond elicits among jewellery consumers is very much associated with the various elements of value,” explained Freddy J. Hanard, the CEO of the AWDC, the conference organiser. “And what makes them particularly interesting is that almost none of them are constant. They are persistently changing, because of market conditions, evolving consumer trends and tastes, and conditions in the producing and consuming countries. To create brand equity for the diamond and then defend that brand, it is imperative that we understand the process.”
In the years since it was first established, the Antwerp Diamond Conference has become one the most important events on the diamond and jewellery industry’s annual calendar, attracting speakers of the calibre of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Botswana President Festus Mogae (2002), President Bill Clinton (2003), South-African President Thabo Mbeki (2004) and Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and social activist Bob Geldof (2007).
The fifth Antwerp Diamond Conference “The Diamond, symbol of value” will be held in Antwerp November 17 and 18.
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