Dua penghasil diamond terbesar dunia adalah Rusia dan Afrika Selatan. Permata De Beers dikirim ke Mumbai dan Surat dan Antwerpen (Belgia) untuk diasah. Yang diatas 1 carat dikirim pe pengasahan Yahudi di Antwerpen, yang 1 carat kebawah dikirim ke Mumbai dan Surat. Tapi, akhir-akhir ini usaha pengasahan diamond India banyak membuka usaha di Antwerpen. Makanya, pemohon visa di konsulat Belgia di Mumbai sebagian besar adalah pengusaha/pedagang diamond. Pesawat El Al (Israel) isinya sebagian pengusaha diamond Yahudi dan India. Karena alasan keamanan, orang Israel takut-takut, sedang orang India yang tidak punya beban semakin berani.
Salam, RM ------------------------- Fortune favoured the risk-takers CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 02, 2004 10:34:17 AM ] The Indian ascendance in Antwerp was accompanied by the steady eclipse of once-dominant Jewish diamantaires. Greater enterprise and willingness to take risks helped Indians overtake the more insular and cautious Jewish diamond traders, we found. To find out more about this mystery trade and how it is sparkling for India, TOI Foreign Editor Chidanand Rajghatta spent a week in Antwerp, the centre of the world's diamond trade. This is part IX in an in-depth look at the glittering industry, which will appear over the next week: Ashit Mehta has another explanation for why the Indians are eclipsing Jews. He believes Jews are still so traumatized by the holocaust that they have become timid and insular. They do not go to new environments. Indians, on the other hand, are gung-ho about setting up operations in the newest, most remote places. "We have three hundred Indian diamond companies in Antwerp, a hundred firms in New York, and maybe 80-90 in Tel Aviv," says Mehta. "Find me ten Jewish diamond firms in Mumbai or Surat." To illustrate this point Rashme Mehta introduces me to Ramesh Patel, a Kathiawadi diamantaire who came to Antwerp as a worker bee, and financed by the Palanpuris, branched out on his own in a small way, and today owns a cutting and polishing factory in Guangzhou, China. Many Indian firms now have operations in several countries across continents - from trading posts in Africa and Australia to cutting and polishing in China, Armenia and Thailand to retailing in the US and Japan. Their familial style enables them to send out cousins and siblings to run offices seamlessly in different places. In fact, Indians have made spectacular investments in places as far apart as Botswana and Thailand. "No place is too remote to do business," says Vijay Dimon's Shah, who travelled darkest Africa, including Sierra Leone, learning the trade at the start of his career. "We will go wherever we see potential to develop business," says Rajiv Mehta, the newer generation scion of Eurostar, which has just opened a diamond cutting factory in Botswana, one of the new giants of diamond mining. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
