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Rapaport Group appoints new chief marketing officer

Lazare Kaplan names sales director

October 12, 2009

Ramat Gan, Israel--The Rapaport Group has announced that Alissa Goren, former head of marketing for the Israel Diamond Institute, has joined the group as its new chief marketing officer.

According to a press release, Goren will be responsible for expanding global communications, marketing and branding strategies for the group.

She'll be based in the group's offices in Israel, reporting directly to group Chairman Martin Rapaport.

"We welcome Alissa Goren to the Rapaport Group. She is joining our management team as we develop and expand our strategic communications with the international jewelry industry," Rapaport said in the release. "Alissa will play a major role expanding Rapaport services to thousands of new members. We are delighted to have her join our team."

Goren can be reached at alissa.goren@diamonds.net.

Also recently announced was the appointment of Fernando Marques as managing director of domestic sales for Diamond Trading Co. sightholder Lazare Kaplan International Inc.

Marques, who has more than 25 years of experience in the diamond and jewelry business, joins Lazare Kaplan from Fredrick Goldman, where he served as director of sales, key accounts.

"As the economy in general, and the diamond jewelry business in particular, slowly begin to come out of the recession, we at LKI made the decision to dedicate additional resources to work closely with our historical customer base in the United States--the committed quality-oriented jewelry stores," Charles Rosario, senior vice president of LKI, said in a release announcing the appointment. "Fernando has the enthusiasm, professional experience and business understanding to work in close cooperation with our customers and potential customers to develop and implement the new opportunities for them as well as for LKI in these challenging times present. While we welcome and actively participate in the newer overseas market, we should not forget that U.S. consumers sill represent close to 50 percent of global diamond demand."

Lazare Kaplan, which has yet to file its Annual Report on Form 10K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2009, is currently working to come back into compliance for continued listing on the NYSE AMEX LLC.
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