Ernest Oppenheimer
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 Ernest Oppenheimer    | |
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| Born | 22 May 1880 |
| Died | 25 November 1957 (Age 77) |
| Founder of | Anglo American, Central Selling Organisation |
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.[1]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:De Beers to abandon cartel | Article | 30 May 2000 | Dan Atkinson | De Beers hit a high point in profit terms in the boom year 1989-90, but the following decade was to cost its shareholders billions of dollars. The break-up of the Soviet Union brought a flood of illicit diamonds on to the market, as did the civil war in Angola. In abandoning the CSO diamond cartel, Managing Director Gary Ralfe hopes to use De Beers' dominant position to persuade everyone in the industry to spend much more on marketing. |
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