KG MFG Botswana Proprietary Limited

KG MFG Botswana Proprietary Limited is a company of the K. Girdharlal diamond group, with premises on Pharathe Road in the Block 3 Industrial area of Gaborone, Botswana. De Beers Global Sightholder Sales names KG MFG Botswana Proprietary Limited in its customer directory as one of the group companies of K Girdharlal International Pvt Ltd, a De Beers Sightholder, alongside K. Girdharlal DMCC in the United Arab Emirates and Sparkle Diam Pvt. Ltd. in India. Global Sightholder Sales sells around 90 per cent of De Beers Group's rough diamonds by value, under term contracts, to customers known as Sightholders and Accredited Buyers. K. Girdharlal began in 1967 as a diamond trading company and moved into cutting and polishing in 1985. It is a family business, now led by its third and fourth generations. Its website gives its headquarters as Surat, in the Indian state of Gujarat, and names Antwerp, Gaborone, Dubai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, New York and Shanghai as locations of its subsidiaries and partners. The De Beers directory describes the group as a vertically integrated polished-diamond and jewellery manufacturer whose output includes round brilliants of 0.10 to 5 carats. Diamonds are Botswana's main export. Most are mined by Debswana, an equal joint venture between the government and De Beers, and Debswana's production is sorted and valued at Orapa House in Gaborone. The capital, home to 246,325 people at the 2022 census, also has a Diamond Technology Park intended to support the downstream side of the industry. The group has not published opening hours or a Botswana telephone number online; general enquiries can go through its website, kgirdharlal.com.

Plot 64260, Pharathe Road, Block 3 Industrial, Gaborone, Botswana
Gaborone

24°37′19″S 25°54′59″E