Mmetla Masire: Okavango to resume diamond sales in January

Botswana’s state-owned Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) is set to resume diamond sales in January 2025, whether the market remains depressed or not. ODC managing director Mmetla Masire told Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa on the side-lines of...

18 november 2024

Helga Pombal: Angola's Stardiam finds solution to the threat posed by lab-grown diamonds

Stardiam manager of production Helga Pombal told Rough&Polished's Mathew Nyaungwa on the sidelines of the Angola International Diamond Conference that lab-grown diamonds are creating a parallel market for more accessible stones, combined with lower...

11 november 2024

Ellah Muchemwa: ADPA to launch Africa's first diamond mining standard next year

The African Diamond Producers Association (ADPA), which is based in Luanda, Angola, and represents the interests of mainly African diamond producers and those with the potential to produce diamonds, will next year launch the Sustainable Development...

04 november 2024

Dmitry Fedorov: I want our jewelry to be displayed at a museum in the future

Dmitry Fedorov is the founder of the eponymous jewelry house. His main focus is the creation of Orthodox-inspired premium luxury jewelry of high artistic merit. He told Rough&Polished about his journey in the jewelry industry, about choosing the ‘Orthodox...

28 october 2024

Responsible business practices ‘no longer optional’, says WDC President Feriel Zerouki

The president of the World Diamond Council takes time out of her busy schedule to tell Rough&Polished readers about the critical work of the WDC. Zerouki, the first female present of the body, which includes all the important industry organizations among...

14 october 2024

Dubai’s Damas Jewellery appoints Luc Perramond as Chairman and CEO

08 may 2020
news_08052020_Perramond-Portrait.jpgDubai-based Damas Jewellery has announced on May 6 that the company has appointed Luc Perramond as Chairman and CEO, effective from April 20.  Perramond replaces Damas’ first female CEO, Asil Attar, who was appointed to the role in February last year, according to  report in gulfnews.com
Perramond also replaces Hamdi Chatti, who was appointed as Damas’ executive chairman in December 2018. Perramond previously served as the president and CEO of Ralph Lauren Watches and Jewellery, and also worked with Tag Heuer, Hermes Watches and H. Stern Jewellers.
Damas said that Perramond will help the ‘prevail through these unprecedented times’ and soar to new heights. The jewellery brand, which was founded in 1907, announced plans last year to expand its presence across the GCC and look at new markets.

Aruna Gaitonde, Editor in Chief of the Asian Bureau, Rough & Polished