Indian Gold Book:Indian Gold Book - Gold Bars Worldwide

ABOUT GRENDON INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PTY LTD
Grendon International Research Pty Ltd (GIR) is a small marketing consultancy, research and promotional company
that focuses on the gold industry.
GIR was established in 1989 by Nigel Desebrock. It has undertaken international, regional and national consultancy
projects for mining companies, refiners, mints, bullion dealers and the World Gold Council. It covers the gold investment,
jewellery, industrial and refining sectors.
Apart from consultancy, GIR has also compiled and published three widely acclaimed industry reference books, the outcome
of fieldtrips to more than 30 countries.
• The Industry Catalogue of Gold Bullion Coins (380 pages, 1999)
• The Industry Catalogue of Gold Bars Worldwide (344 pages, 1998)
• Gold Refiners & Bars Worldwide (476 pages, 1991)
In 1993, GIR (Curator) established The Industry Collection of Gold Bars Worldwide with the support of N.M. Rothschild
& Sons (Australia) Ltd (Custodian & Owner) and the World Gold Council (Sponsor). Apart from acting as an information and
photographic resource for the industry, major exhibitions have been staged in Europe, North and South America, South East
Asia and the Middle East. They tell the story of gold from gold-bearing ore – through gold bars – to the end uses of gold.
The collection, the largest in the world, contains more than 700 standard, innovative and unusual bars (1000 g and less)
from 29 countries.
Nigel Desebrock was educated in South Africa and, on a Rhodes scholarship, at Oxford University. His practical marketing
experience includes six years with Bass Ltd, Europe’s largest brewery group at the time, six years with International Gold
Corporation (the marketing arm of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa) in London and Johannesburg where he became
Manager, Investment Division (Worldwide), and three years with Gold Corporation (which included the Perth Mint and
Australian Gold Refineries) where he became Managing Director, GoldCorp Australia.
He is an occasional speaker at international gold conferences, most recently at the LBMA Precious Metals Conference in
Istanbul (2001) and at the Australian Gold Conference in Melbourne (2002) where he delivered papers on private gold
investment worldwide that took into account “investment jewellery” in countries such as India.
GIR is an associate member of the Australian Gold Council.
Grendon International Research Pty Ltd
33 Alexandra Road, East Fremantle, WA 6158, Australia
Tel: 61-8-9319 2171
Fax: 61-8-9319 2154
email: grendon@global.net.au
website: www.grendon.com.au
GRENDON
INTERNATIONAL
RESEARCH
GOLD
MARKETING
CONSULTANT
GIR’s reference books can be ordered directly from GIR
or off the GIR website: www.grendon.com.au
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INDIAN GOLD MARKET 191