Sentence examples for early bidder from inspiring English sources

Ford Motor was an early bidder but dropped out.

Google, which was an early bidder and formed a consortium with Intel, fell at the last hurdle.

But he noted that European press reports had, in addition to Pfizer, listed Sanofi-Aventis, the French drug maker, as an early bidder for Ratiopharm.

Murstein has coveted a sports franchise for a few years; he raised $215 million in a public offering in 2008, was an early bidder for the Chicago Cubs, and looked at the Montreal Canadiens.

They include Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, who tried to buy the Texas Rangers last year; Dennis Gilbert, a former player agent who was an early bidder for the Rangers; Ron Burkle, a billionaire supermarket mogul; and Alan Casden, a real estate investor who lost the bidding in 2003 to McCourt.

Cape Town was an early bidder for the 2004 Games that were awarded to Athens.

It was also among the early bidders for Washington Mutual and Wachovia in the United States.

The new minimum bid is $550,000, with added incentives for early bidders.

Among the early bidders in this auction were several whose names regularly turn up, often in succession or nearly so, on other offerings by a small circle of sellers.

With Vivendi demanding at least $14 billion, most of the early bidders with cash have balked: MGM dropped out while John C. Malone's Liberty Media, a consortium led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. and Viacom have all indicated they do not expect to make an offer that values the company that high.

Three parties tabled best and final offers to take control of Rangers but one party, the Blue Knights, have since stepped back from the process and an earlier bidder, Brian Kennedy, has made a renewed offer to buy the club.