Sentence examples for auction firm from inspiring English sources
Christie's International PLC, art auction firm founded by James Christie (1730 1803) in London in 1766.
A spokeswoman said the online auction firm would not permit the re-sale of Tamiflu through its website.
In 1966 Chatwin abandoned a promising career as a director of Impressionist art at the auction firm Sotheby's in London to study archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.
Mr. Burius said he believed "that the auction firm understood that he didn't have the right to sell them," according to a 2008 Swedish government report.
Online auction firm eBay is to boost a fund set up in memory of Amy Winehouse on the first anniversary of her death.
Hoping to cash in on that success, online auction firm eBay snapped up a 28.4% stake from a former Craigslist employee in 2004.
Among the examples are electronic auction firms, search engine firms, electronic malls, social network platforms, and online game companies.
"Half the homes we auction have never been on the market before," says Craig King, president of J. P. King, one of the oldest real estate auction firms in the U.S. For buyers the biggest risk is overpaying.
In March, Uxin, an online-auction firm specialising in used cars in China, won $170m in funding from Baidu, a local internet-search giant, and KKR, an American private-equity firm.As new-car buyers have become scarcer, some of the biggest-selling foreign brands in China, such as Ford and VW, have had to start offering rebates and discounts to shift the metal.
They mostly blamed a combination of high fuel costs and low fares.Computing powerProfits at eBay, the world's leading internet-auction firm, nearly doubled to $182m and revenues climbed by 52% to $806m in the third quarter, partly as the result of strong sales to students returning to school.IBM reported a modest increase in profits of 1% in the latest quarter compared with a year ago.
The online-auction firm's annual users' conference is being held in its home town this year to celebrate its tenth anniversary.
