1) As part of your environmental analysis, please identify the various components of the Global Diamond Industry (e.g., legal, regulatory, political, cultural, technological, and economic), highlighting the main trends affecting the future of this product market (up to 2 pages);
The global diamond industry consists of three major sectors: mining, rough diamond trading, including retailing and jewelry, and industrial diamonds (The Diamond Industry, p. 1). This industry structure includes both large and well-organized organizations and small, independent diamond operations. The industry has a work force of about ten million people globally. They include both those who are directly and indirectly ...
