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Article: Leviev in top place in Israel's top 25 exporter list for 2008.
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- Israel Diamonds
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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Lev Leviev Diamonds was again Israel's largest exporter of polished diamonds in 2008 despite a 20 percent fall in the company's exports. Leviev's LLD Diamonds exported $417 million worth of polished in 2008, compared with $522 million in 2007, according to Israel's Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor.
Israel's top 25 diamond exporters sold a combined $2.57 billion worth of polished during 2008, the ministry reported. That compares with the top 25 companies on the 2007 list who exported $3 billion worth of goods. The list for 2008 did not include 17 companies which requested not to have their figures published and which had total net exports of $797 million. The ...