Sentence examples for a formal auction from inspiring English sources

There hasn't been a formal auction for a public British company since 2008.

People close to the insurer say that it might also favor Transatlantic beginning a formal auction process.

But it took the Kinder Morgan deal and a formal auction of the businesses to prompt formal interest from Apollo and other suitors.

For Mr. Clinton, the decision to negotiate his book deal privately with Knopf avoids the publicity and rigamarole of a formal auction.

According to the report, the drugmaker had tentatively approached PepsiCo, Danone, Nestle, Kraft and H.J. Heinz to test the appetite for a formal auction of Mead Johnson.

While the company spoke with a number of suitors in addition to Energy Transfer and Williams, it did not run a formal auction that could have fetched a higher initial price.

NEW YORK TIMES Cerberus's Effort to Exit Gun Maker Moves Forward  |  The private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management announced last year that it would shed its controlling stake in the Freedom Group, and it "is expected to kick off a more formal auction process this week to narrow the field of interested parties," The Financial Times reports.

Must an e-marketplace relegate customers to formal auction bidding in their service transactions?

The transit agency used to hold a formal live auction where buyers bid on items left on subways, like trumpets and jewelry.

On July 3rd, in collaboration with Phillips Megan Newcomee, and Annie Werner of Tumblr, Howard brought Paddles ON! to London in what was the United Kingdom's first ever formal auction for digital art.

Therefore, the formal auctions were the exception rather than the rule.