Diamonds com

Entrepreneur Martin Rapaport, founder and chairman of the Rapaport Group, began his career in 1975 as an apprentice diamond cleaver in Antwerp, Belgium. In 1976, Martin founded his eponymous company. He soon recognized a need for fair and transparent diamond pricing. In 1978, when he was back in New York City, Martin revolutionized the industry when he published the Rapaport Price List.  He transformed the industry again in 1996 when he launched the online RapNet Diamond Trading Network. Together, RapNet and the Rapaport Price List, provide diamond pricing, availability and trading transparency in a competitive global environment. The largest recycler of diamonds, the firm offers its Rapaport Trading and Auction Services selling over 500,000 carats of previously owned diamonds each year. Over the years the Rapaport Group products and companies have evolved and expanded internationally to include a broad range of added value services with a unified purpose: The development of fair, honest, transparent, competitive and efficient markets.