Waldman Diamond Company In Israel's Top 25 For 15th Consecutive Year

by Ya'akov Almor

(WireNews+Co) - Ramat Gan, Israel - 06 February 2013

Waldman Diamond Company (W.D.C) Israel Ltd. exported polished diamonds worth $38 million during 2012, according to the annual list of Israel’s top 25 diamond exporters (http://www.diamonds.net/News/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=38622&ArticleTitle=Leo+Schachter+Ranks+as+Israels+Top+Exporter+in+2011), published by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor.

This puts Waldman on the list of Israel’s top 25 diamond exporters for a 15th consecutive year, and one position higher than last year at number 22. While Israel’s total polished diamond exports fell by 23% during 2012, WDC saw a 16% drop in sales and managed to improve its share of the Israeli export market.

“The consistent performance of our Israel office over the past 15 years is only part of the global sales success story of the WDC Group”, says C.E.O. Alexander Waldman.

“In a tough economic climate, it is gratifying to have increased our market share among our local competitors and around the world. As a vertically integrated manufacturer and trader of polished diamonds and manufacturer of diamond jewelry, we also made great strides during 2012 to ‘polish’ and expand our investment diamond offering. We hope that the performance of our Waldman Diamond Investments division will boost our diamond export sales during 2013, as we expand our business to service wholesale, retail and investment customers with our ‘global reach’ and our ‘personal touch’.”

The Waldman Diamond Company remains committed to corporate social responsibility and the sustainability of the diamond industry and the planet. All diamonds handled by the Waldman Group are conflict-free. We also take the Kimberly Certification Process one step further through our transparency about the origin of each diamond.Many of the diamonds that we sell are mined in Canada’s Arctic region in the Diavik and Ekati mines, where every effort is made to enhance the environmental, social and economic benefits of the industry and to reduce the adverse effects of mining.