After years of refusing to deal with synthetic diamonds, De Beers shocked the industry last year with the launch of its own lab-grown diamond jewellery brand, LightBox.
The decision, CEO Bruce Cleaver told the Financial Times earlier this month, was spurred by rising sales of US lab-grown diamonds.
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