Mining company Alrosa has set sales targets of more than $300 million for January 2010, following the increase in rough demand since the past few weeks of the current year. It also plans to restrain from selling any roughs to the state-owned repository Gokhran in the first quarter of 2010, if the market demand remains favourable. The company had decided to stop catering to the markets in the first six months of 2009, during the economic slowdown, and was open only to selling to Gokhran in the said period. %% With new sales targets at hand and a favourable market, the company is working out a geographical diversification of its sales operations, with concentration on new emerging markets, like India and Chin. It is also looking at converting its foreign-based ARCOS network subsidiaries into full-fledged rough and polished trading offices.