Clayton Dubilier, the New York buyout firm, hired Diamond to add a Web play to its Alliant Foodservice unit, a $6 billion distributor of food and supplies to restaurants, hotels and hospitals.
Further down the market, the mining firm Petra Diamonds jumped 5.25p, or 12.4%, to 47p after the announcement of the extension to its $20m convertible bond and the initiation of coverage by Ambrian.
Other interests include a stake in brother Eric's firm Peregrine Diamonds.
Already well known as a cutter and polisher of diamonds in the 1980s, Mr Leviev was asked to help the Soviet state-owned diamond firm set up local factories 15 years ago.He agreed and formed a joint-venture with the state firm, now called Alrosa.
The boss of a diamond firm says his home town has been reshaped and feels great.
He also works for the law firm of Poletti, Diamond, Rabin, Freidin & Mackay.
"Our aim is to restore the Kalahari to itself," says Tswalu's owner, Nicky Oppenheimer, who also serves as chairman of De Beers, a diamond firm.
The company has failed to attract younger readers to its monthly magazine.Nicky Oppenheimer, a cricket-loving scion of the family behind De Beers, is to become chairman of the diamond firm in place of Julian Ogilvie Thompson.
Last week De Beers, which has already sold 26% of its South African arm to a black-owned consortium, said it would merge its Namaqualand mine with a state-owned diamond firm to create a new independent local producer.
Foreign involvement has infuriated Mr Mugabe who reportedly views Mr Mujuru as a British stooge because he has a financial interest in a UK firm which lost diamond mining concessions in Zimbabwe.
My firm estimates that diamond sales will grow 20% a year over the next three years.
