| Auction Saturday benefits Chernobyl
Organizers of Saturday's 14th annual fundraising auction for Canadian Aid for Chernobyl (CAC) are trying to appeal to all interests. CAC fundraising chairman Jan Smith said a live and silent auction at the Memorial Centre includes 380 items in total with a range of items to interest everybody. The live event begins at 6 p.m. and features 80 items, said Smith. "We have everything from luxury items to things you need anyway so you might as well buy them here," she said. "So that would be everything from a diamond necklace to a septic pump-out." The event also features the return of the homemade pies that proved quite popular last year when a pecan-bourbon pie sold for $60, said Smith. "We have the same interesting pies up for auction again for people feeling flush and hungry." She said the silent auction has a range of items priced from $5 to $60 with many fitting Mother's Day gifts.
Limited edition bear for auction
A Telford businessman has handed over one of the last limited edition teddy bears to be produced at his world famous factory to help raise hundreds of pounds for charity. Oliver Holmes, who owns the historic Merrythought factory in Ironbridge, has handed over the grey teddy bear to staff at Wrekin College for their charity auction of promises and gifts to be held on Saturday. The auction will raise cash for Medic Malawi to pay for the second phase of The Wrekin Orphan House in Malawi, Africa. A group of staff and students travelled to Malawi to build the first orphan house in 2005, after raising nearly £20,000. Read the full story in the Shropshire Star. .
Kuwaiti company wins bidding for Saudi mobile license
DUBAI: Mobile Telecommunications, the biggest mobile phone operator in Kuwait, said it had agreed to pay $6.1 billion for the third mobile license offered by Saudi Arabia. Mobile Telecommunications, or MTC, based in Kuwait, termed the Saudi market "attractive" in the statement it released Saturday announcing the agreement. MTC beat six competing consortiums with its bid of 22.9 billion riyals. MTC shares fell Sunday by 60 fils, or 1.3 percent, to close at 4,740 fils in Kuwait. Earlier in the session they fell as much as their daily limit of 100 fils, to 4,700 fils. The stock has gained 43 percent this year, valuing the company at 5.98 billion dinars. Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, is the biggest economy in the Gulf and has a lower mobile phone penetration rate than its neighbors.
Europe warns Holland on ABN Amro bids
The European Commission has warned the Netherlands to have an open mind on all bids for ABN Amro, currently at the centre of a takeover struggle, ANP reported on Thursday. The Dutch authorities must operate in a 'non-discriminatory' manner when it came to more than one bid for the bank, a spokesman for internal markets commissioner Charlie McCreevy said. It would be disappointing if the Netherlands made a move towards protectionism, the spokesman said. The commission was reacting to concerns expressed by the Dutch central bank (DNB) over a possible bid from a consortium of banks. Such a bid by Fortis, Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander would 'constitute a strong risk-increasing and complicating factor' DNB said. ABN Amro is in exclusive talks with Barclays until Friday, but says it will talk to the consortium to find out more next week.
Former Nelson Bakery Plant to be Sold by Auction
A former Nelson Bakery Plant is to be sold by Auction on May 16 2007, at the factory premises of the former Halls Bakery Site in Nelson, Lacashire UK. The sale will consist of plant and machinery used at the bakery operation that was producing for food service, local supermarket groups and a chain of bakers shops. London, UK (PRWEB) April 18, 2007 -- Pro Auction will conduct an auction sale of the entire craft bakery at the former Halls Bakery factory in Nelson Lancashire. Over 250 lots will go under the auctioneers hammer, which will appeal to a wide range of craft and plant bakeries alike. The sale will include bread plant, dividers, mixers, moulders and depositors along with a complete savoury pie making line designed by Crypto Peerless. In addition to the equipment, the auctioneers will also offer Tom Chandley Ovens, Koma retarder proovers and an Ulma Florida flow wrapper.
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