Archive for June, 2009

Universal Live Auctions (ULA) Launchs New Internet Live Auction Platform

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Universal Live Auctions (ULA) is proud to announce the launch of its new internet Live Auction platform (www.universallive.com) on July 2, 2009.
ULA was one of the two companies contacted by eBay to aggregate non-auctioneer sellers into eBay’s Live Auction platform. ULA also ran and participated in auctions on Sotheby’s, Proxibid, Live Auctioneers and Go Antiques.
ULA [...]

West Yellowstone Painted Buffalo Auction

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

On the evening of August 29, 2009 the West Yellowstone Painted Buffalo herd will be auctioned off to the highest bidders. For the months leading up to the auction, bids will be accepted via http://www.wyed.org.
The herd gathers one last time from August 20 to 26th, 2009 at the Yellowstone Historic Center and then moves to [...]

Wine Auction Brings $1,894,350 at Hart Davis Hart

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Hart Davis Hart offered a second installment of French Classics from a Magnificent Cellar last weekend in Chicago, realizing $1,894,350 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $1,204,010 to $1,805,060. Highlights included a case of 12 bottles of 1961 Palmer recently released from Mähler-Besse that brought $22,705 (est. $10,000-15,000), a case of 6 magnums of 1988 [...]

Kennedy Wilson Auction Group Creates Commercial Division

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the international real estate services and investment company Kennedy Wilson, announces the formation of its Commercial Auction Division. Clifford Smith, senior vice president of Kennedy Wilson’s Commercial Investment Group (KW Investments), has been appointed to lead the commercial auction division, according to Rhett Winchell, president of the Auction [...]

Ritchie Bros. conducts largest Dubai and Denver auctions in company history

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, conducted the largest Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Denver, Colorado auctions in Company history last week. Ritchie Bros. (www.rbauction.com) sold almost US$46 million of equipment in Dubai (June 1 – 3, 2009) and almost US$35 million of equipment in Denver (June 4 & 5). The Company [...]

Albert Einstein Autographed Picture for Auction

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

An autographed version of one of the most iconic images of the 20th Century is being made available for purchase in the current RR Auction. In 1953, at the height of the 1950s Communist witch-hunt, Albert Einstein signed the photo for award-winning CBS and ABC anchor reporter Howard K. Smith as a gesture of his [...]

Ritchie Bros Auction to Aid Breast Cancer Foundation

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

A participant in the upcoming Breast Cancer 3-Day walk in Seattle, Washington has come up with a novel way to raise funds: she will sell a pink street sweeper at an unreserved auction in Olympia and put half the proceeds towards her team’s fundraising efforts. Tina McDonough, the owner of One.7, Inc., the largest used [...]

Largest Auction of Top Level Real Estate Dot Com Domains

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

With less than a week left before auction, interest continues to rise for the highly anticipated auction of the world’s largest collection of real estate listing domain names. J. P. King Auction Company, the nation’s leading real estate auction marketing firm, will manage the sale of this once-in-an-internet-lifetime opportunity to own lucrative pieces of [...]

ProMOS Technologies DRAM Patents Posed to Sell at Ocean Tomo Live IP Auction

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Ocean Tomo Auctions – part of Ocean Tomo, LLC, (www.OceanTomo.com) the leading Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc® firm – today announced it will offer for sale patents related to data storage and amplification. ProMOS two lots will be featured on July 23rd in Chicago at The Ocean Tomo Summer IP Markets 2009 Auction & Conference Presented [...]

Cell Therapeutics Amends and Restates Its Modified Dutch Auction Tender Offer

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company” or “CTI”) today announced that it has amended and restated its “Modified Dutch Auction” tender offer to a fixed price tender offer for any and all of the approximately $118.9 million outstanding principal amount of five series of its convertible notes (the “Notes”). In addition, rather than a single offer [...]