Sentence examples for auction operation from inspiring English sources

Japan's top Internet portal, the Yahoo Japan Corporation, said it more than doubled its first-half profit, helped by growth in its broadband Web access service and its online auction operation.

Others said that the winning bid, which was taken by Barbara Strongin, Christie's director of auction operations, was made by Christie's, buying the painting back.

"We have spent months reviewing all of our auction operations around the world," said William Ruprecht, president and chief executive, "and it's fair to say that our focus in the United States is principally on the high-end markets while in London we're making a commitment to the secondary sales room because we see an opportunity there in the middle market".

The court is still to rule on MercExchange's auction patent, which covers almost all of eBay's core auction operations.

But in recent years Anglo has moved its diamond-sorting operation and auction process nearer to the source of the stones, in Botswana's capital, Gaborone.

The paper provides and overview of the wide use of such tools and the consequences for the operation of the auction process.

The government should simply auction the entire operation to the private sector, including a management buy-out if British Nuclear Fuels' executives have the stomach to stand behind their numbers.

SAN FRANCISCO — EBay's efforts to revive its auction and retail operations showed limited success in the third quarter while its PayPal online payments service continued to flourish.

The auction and retail operations, which eBay calls marketplace, took in $1.41 billion in revenue during the same period, an increase of just 3 percent.

Allied Irish Bank, having been bailed out by its government, is auctioning off its operation there, which has a 5% market share.Other western European firms active in eastern Europe suffered during the crisis and are scaling back, for example KBC and Dexia.

Savvis was the winning bidder in a private auction for the United States operations, which filed for bankruptcy protection last month.