About Us

Excellence In Service, Exceptional In Selection

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Bengal Protea is a diamond manufacturer, wholesaler, and distributor. For nearly 25 years, our unmatched skill, knowledge, and passion for the industry has allowed us to become one of the most trusted wholesalers in the United States. We define ourselves as an upscale wholesaler and manufacturer with a focus on quality products and unmatched customer service.

With offices on 5 continents and in over 7 countries, Bengal Protea has the ability to compete with nearly every wholesaler and manufacurer in the Americas. Our offices are located in key areas of the world with every office focusing on a seperate area of the industry. The Americas division has the unique ability to specialize on the sales and service of loose goods while allowing sister offices to concentrate rough sales, buying, or manufacturing.

As an International diamond company, we strive to build long term relationships with our clients that are based on trust, integrity, dedication, transparency, and solidarity. With increasing competition from around the globe, we highly value our clients and consistantly work to exceed their expectations on a daily basis.

At Bengal Protea, we believe in carying a variety of diamonds from the everyday and most popular stones to some of the most rare and exotic pieces that the world has to offer.We know that our customers have clients that come from all walks of life, and feel that it is our duty to provide for our customers a wide array of stones to choose from. This creates a higher probability of sale and ultimately puts more money in both our pockets and the pockets of our clients.

Mission Statement

Today’s diamond market is a complex maze of that can easily overwhelm even the savviest buyers. At Bengal Diamonds, we dedicate ourselves toward earning your trust and providing you with an honest and exception experience that give you the confidence you need to grow and manage your business.

We do this by prioritizing our values, experience, and expertise among our employees, clients and stake holders so that we can continue to exceed the expectations of our clients and their clients. Our master diamond inspector hand pick each item in our inventory and ensure that provide an extensive selection of only the finest quality diamonds.

Core Values

Our culture at Bengal Protea revolves around three core principles. These principles are deeply embedded in the products and services we provide our clients and serve as important core values that we Bengal Protea subscribe to.

Experience The single most dominant thread running through our founders and employees Bengal Protea is our experience in the world of Diamonds, Jewelry, and exotic gems. Our principals have an average of 35 years of experience and our employees have an average of 15 years of client engagement and consulting experience. Our clients will never have to worry dealing with inexperienced diamond graders and gemologists because we simply don’t hire inexperienced staff.

Expertise Along with experience, we place an enormous emphasis on Expertise. Our principals and employees hold multiple degrees and certification from some of the most prestigious and well respected universities and gemology laboratories in the world. Each of our principals and employees have been professionally trained to assess and advise on diamonds, jewelry and exotic gems.

Honesty With the introduction of synthetic lab enhanced diamonds, trusting your jeweler and supplier have become a top concern. At Bengal Protea we take extreme measures to keep our inventory stocked with only genuine, all natural, non lab-enhanced diamonds that come from conflict free zones. We believe in full transparency and will always be honest and upfront with the description of each diamond we sell, guaranteed.

Our Promise To You

Our Priority Is Reponsibility

Bengal Protea was founded on principles of diversity, integrity and accountability. We believe economic growth can, and must, be achieved with social and environmental responsibility.

We work with all members of the supply chain, from the diamond mine to the retailer and the final buyer to ensure that our diamonds are handled in the most professional manner possible. We work to ensure that each diamond and piece of jewelry that we sell goes through a rigorous inspection and verification of chain of ownership so that we can guarantee the authenticity and conflict-free status of our goods.

Bengal Protea also takes pride in volunteering and donating to local community organizations. We believe that it is our social responsibility to not only help ourselves, but also lift and the help the world and people around us. To date we have donated tens of thousands of dollars to dozens of organizations in need. We continue to look for and contribute to meaningful causes and exercise social responsibility in the best ways possible.

Conflict Free Diamonds

Bengal Protea, along with the global diamond industry, has a zero-tolerance policy toward conflict diamonds. Through measures such as the Kimberley Process, which tracks diamonds from mine to market, the industry in partnership with the United Nations, governments, and non-governmental organizations, polices diamond exports to prevent the trade of illegal diamonds.

At Bengal Protea, we only purchase diamonds through the largest and most respected suppliers who, like us, proudly adhere to and enforce the standards established by the Kimberley Process. All Bengal Protea diamonds are warranted to be conflict free. If one of our suppliers was ever found to be in violation of that process, we would immediately sever that relationship. We will continue to support and promote any process that works to uphold legitimacy in the diamond trade.

Diamonds are mined throughout the world, including major mines in Australia, Africa, Russia and Canada. Diamonds are a major source of good in many African nations, employing and providing healthcare to thousands. For more information on this issue, please visit DiamondFacts.org.

Product Integrity

Product integrity and quality improvement is our primary way of enhancing customer value. Product integrity focuses on managing the different stages in the life cycle of our diamonds. We address product integrity in our value chain through:

Sourcing from reputable companies based on reliability of the sellers, and professionalism of the actors’ practices
Rough trading and polished sales: know your customer, anti-bribery, corruption and disclosure
Manufacturing:
- Leading quality management processes in our manufacturing operations
- Managing contractors
- Open collaboration with industry partners to develop a common approach

Kimberly Compliance

The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) was established to certify the origin of rough diamonds from sources known to be conflict-free. A 2000 meeting of southern African diamond producing countries established guidelines for the KPCS, which were later adopted by the United Nations. To ensure compliance, independent auditing systems are tasked with tracking diamonds from their place of origin to delivery. Polished diamonds sold in the U.S. must adhere to the Patriot Act which requires that every U.S. dealer maintain Kimberley compliance or be subject to penalties from Homeland Security, the U.S. Justice Department, and the U.S. Treasury.

At Bengal Protea, we are doing our part to make sure that our customers receive conflict-free diamonds. Specifically, our internal guidelines exceed government requirements, an initiative that provides the following:

Bengal Protea manufactures most of our own diamonds. Since we are the source, Bengal Protea has first-hand knowledge of the conflict-free origins of our rough diamonds.
Bengal Protea does not purchase polished diamonds from sources which are not members of the professional diamond trade.
Bengal Protea has binding contracts with our suppliers which guarantee that the diamonds they offer to us for sale are conflict-free.

We understand that our customers care where their diamonds come from and we share that concern with you. By working with Bengal Protea, we strive to maintain the highest standards, which include sourcing diamonds from reputable providers.