Who owns what percentage of de Beers corporation?
Thorough answer please.

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 23 Jun 2005 14:38 PDT

Hi!

I was able to find information that De Beers is owned by three
separate entities and that De Beers is diversified into three groups
and has holdings in other related companies. There is breakdown of the
percentage of ownership.

Would this be ok as an answer?

Thanks!

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Clarification of Question by bugbear-ga on 23 Jun 2005 15:41 PDT

yes

Hi! Thanks for the question.

De Beers SA (Lux) and De Beers Investments (Lux) are owned by the
following: (I also provided direct links to the company profiles or
websites. Immediately following the percent ownership, I have provided
the sources for the figures.

The De Beers 2004 Annual Review from their website provides the following figures.


Governement of Botswana - 15%
http://www.gov.bw/home.html

Central Holdings Group - 40%
http://www.mbendi.co.za/orgs/cw1l.htm

Anglo American Group - 45%
http://www.angloamerican.co.uk/


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De Beers meanwhile have holdings in the following companies.

Debswana (Botswana) - 50%
http://www.debswana.com/homePage/dbHomePage.asp

Namdeb (Namibia) - 50%
http://www.namdeb.com/homePage/dbHomePage.asp

Williamson (Tanzania) -75%
http://www.mbendi.co.za/orgs/camx.htm

De Beers Consolidated Mines (South Africa) - 100%
http://www.btimes.co.za/corpcomp/d/debeers.htm

Diamond Trading Company (United Kingdom) - 100%
http://www.dtc.com/

Sources for the ownership information: 
(see page 2)
http://www.debeersgroup.com/NR/rdonlyres/96870848-824D-495A-B273-135AC9657613/744/AR2004_BoardStructure.pdf

(see page 2)
http://www.debeersgroup.com/NR/rdonlyres/AC97D32A-C16E-49A2-B3E9-322C40586948/1244/DBCMAR2004_Structure.pdf


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Request for Answer Clarification by bugbear-ga on 24 Jun 2005 05:44 PDT

Could you give the link to "The De Beers 2004 Annual Review from their website"?
Thanks.

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Clarification of Answer by easterangel-ga on 24 Jun 2005 08:05 PDT

First of all thank you for the 5 stars and for the generous tip! :)

Here are the links for the De Beers Complete 2004 Annual Review

De Beers 2004 Annual Review
http://www.debeersgroup.com/NR/rdonlyres/96870848-824D-495A-B273-135AC9657613/739/DeBeers_AR2004.pdf

De Beers Consolidated Mines 2004 Annual Review
http://www.debeersgroup.com/NR/rdonlyres/AC97D32A-C16E-49A2-B3E9-322C40586948/1246/DBCMAR2004.pdf

Thanks again!

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