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Private equity group Permira has acquired the former Unilever brands Birds Eye and Iglo, closing the auction with a £1bn bid.
Permira outbid CapVest, a rival private equity firm that owns FoodVest, the holding company behind Findus frozen foods in Norway, Sweden and France, as well as the UK’s Young’s Bluecrest Seafood.
Unilever took the [...]

UK Auction Info
Web search leader Google Inc. will supply online auctioneer eBay Inc. with Web search advertising outside the United States, and the two will join forces on “click-to-call” ads that link online shoppers to vendors, the companies said on Monday.
Paid search advertising lets marketers bid for ad space next to keyword search results.
EBay, whose [...]

Advised minimum values (AMVs), the new system for estimating the values of homes for sale, have failed to give buyers more accurate indications of how much properties will sell for at auction.
Advised minimum values (AMVs), the new system for estimating the values of homes for sale, have failed to give buyers more accurate indications of [...]

Waterford News & Star
A WATERFORD based startup is launching an innovative new mobile web service that will enable people to create websites for their mobile phones. Nubiq Ltd, which is a spinoff company of The Centre for Converged Communications Services (3CS) established by Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), will introduce its first product ‘zinadoo’, at [...]

UK Auction Info
The final possessions of Syd Barrett are to be auctioned in Cambridge later this year, it has been announced.
Amongst the items set to go under the hammer are pieces of artwork from the Pink Floyd founder, some signed, which have never been seen before.
Also up for sale are his bikes, which were hand [...]

Almost one fifth of first-time home-buyers in Ireland are non-nationals, according to research conducted by the Irish Mortgage Corporation.
The company says more than one third of foreign buyers are from Asia, particularly India, Pakistan and the Philippines, while a quarter are from the UK.
Asked about the figures this morning, Alan Cooke from the Irish Auctioneers [...]

Alan Cooke, chief executive of the Irish Auctioneers’ and Valuers’ Institute, has pointed out, that a 1.1% monthly rise in house prices in July indicated yesterday still implied an annual increase of 13%.
The IAVI has predicted a ’soft landing’ for the housing market. Mr Cooke said the market was moving closer to equilibrium – where [...]

UK Auction Info
Manchester United and Chelsea have joined forces to let fans sell unwanted tickets online.
The service, launched with online ticket exchange company Viagogo, enables the clubs’ season ticket holders to sell unwanted tickets to other club members for Premier League games. It is the first time this has been legally permitted.
David Gill and Peter [...]

GOVERNMENT advisers UBS and AIB Capital Markets will unveil the timetable for the €1.2 billion flotation of Aer Lingus within 10 days, earmarking a stock market debut for the last week in September.
It is understood that the government’s intention to retain ownership of at least 30% of the airline will also be communicated to the [...]

Evoca, a US firm offering a new voice recording application on the web, has launched a service for Irish users.
Evoca, based in Savannah, Georgia, is a novel recording service allowing anyone with access to a standard telephone or mobile phone to record their voice (or whomever else they may be recording) directly onto the web.
Irish [...]

UK Auction Info
Prince and Princess Michael of Kent are selling their unwanted bric-a-brac at an auction in Gloucester.
Hundreds of gifts and trinkets, such as furniture, table lamps and tennis racquets, are being auctioned with a starting price of £5 on Friday.
The Kents, who are the Queen’s first cousins, are having a clear-out after selling their [...]

An online fundraising auction in memory of a Nottingham Forest player who died of liver failure has been boosted by a donation from Roy Keane, it emerged today.
The Irish football legend, who retired at the end of last season, has given a pair of his boots for the auction in aid of the British Liver [...]

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Angry eBay sellers are threatening to boycott the UK auction site next week in protest at changes introduced to attract more buyers.
eBay has made the changes to its Shops service, which lets sellers have all their eBay listings in one place, because it was “impairing” the buyer experience.
On 2 August, eBay reduced the [...]

An online group of eBay merchants called “Google we need an auction site.” Has been growing rapidly over the past few days. Their newly formed Google group can be found online at: http://groups.google.com/group/auctionplease
The description of the group reads “We are eBay store owners who have been “dismissed” by eBay through extreme rate hikes. We are [...]

UK Auction Info
There has been a 60% increase in the number of properties being bought and sold at auction since 1998, according to a leading provider of auction information.
The Essential Information (E.I.) Group currently has information on over 300,000 past properties and details on over 35,000 future lots that are offered each year, worth in [...]