![]() The company said in March it could raise up to $3 billion in 2012. ![]() Russia’s Alrosa, which vies with De Beers for the title of the world’s top diamond miner, is also mulling IPO plans. ![]() The two countries, combined with the Gulf, are expected to overtake the United States in the next four years as the top diamond consumers - growth that sits behind the move by miner Anglo American to buy out diamond industry goliath De Beers earlier this month. ![]() The diamonds business in Asia has been booming as consumers in China and India turn to diamond jewellery even in the face of a poor global economic outlook. Italian fashion house Prada listed there earlier this year, part of a trend to raise brand awareness in China, the world’s fastest growing luxury market. The IPO plan follows a pattern of luxury brands flocking to list in Hong Kong as a platform for a broader expansion into China and beyond. With 33 stores worldwide, Graff is reported to count the Sultan and Queen of Brunei and American property mogul Donald Trump among his clients. He now heads a firm that retails some of the world’s most expensive jewellery. Laurence Graff began his career as a teenage apprentice in London’s Hatton Garden jewellery quarter, and was making his own pieces at age 24. ![]()
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