| Hancock Fabrics Retains Keen Realty to Auction One Hundred Twenty ...
GREAT NECK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hancock Fabrics, Inc. has retained Keen Realty, LLC under an order of the United States Bankruptcy Court, to market and assist with the disposition of two fee-owned retail properties and 121 of the company's retail leasehold interests located nationally. Hancock Fabrics operates retail fabric stores in 39 states across the country. The company filed for Chapter 11 protection on March 21, 2007 in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Keen Realty, LLC is a real estate consulting firm specializing in maximizing the value of its clients' real estate assets nationwide. "We are very excited to offer these leases and fee-properties for sale. The leases include favorable rental rates, and many of these stores are located in prime shopping centers throughout the country.
Euro 2012 to stay with 16 teams: hosts present bids
'We have decided today that there will be no expansion of the tournament to 24 teams,' UEFA vice-president Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder said after an executive committee meeting in Cardiff, Wales. The decision comes on the eve of a decision by the UEFA board on the hosts for the 2012 tournament. Three candidates are in the running: Italy, Croatia-Hungary jointly and Poland-Ukraine jointly. UEFA, Europe's ruling body for football, had commissioned a study at the beginning of the year into the idea of a 24-team tournament from 2012. Germany's Mayer-Vorfelder said he believed the decision to retain a 16-team format for the tournament was the correct one. With 53 member associations in UEFA it meant that roughly one in three of the continent's football nations were already represented, he said.
A FEW OF THE MANY HIGHLIGHTS OF ROBERT EDWARD AUCTIONS’ APRIL 28 ...
In addition to over 1,000 lots of Baseball cards and memorabilia, Robert Edward Auctions is present-ing a tremendous selection of very high quality Comic, Pop Culture, and Americana related items in its April 28 sale. Bidding starts April 10 by FAX, phone, or the Internet via Robert Edward's state-of-the-art real-time interactive bidding site: www.RobertEdwardAuctions.com. The total sales for the event are expected to exceed $5-million. Coming to the block will be some 1,500 lots of collectibles dating from 1838 to 1975. Among the items of special interest will be: Over two-hundred lots of pre-1900 baseball cards and memorabilia, and Thousands of 1910 era tobacco cards.
Of special note is the unveiling of the recently discovered 1838 Philadelphia Olympics Constitution, the earliest relic of organized baseball from the first organized baseball team in existence (re-serve$50,000); The Barry Halper Estate Collection, comprised of over 200 extraordinary lots of base-ball memorabilia from the estate of the baseball world's most famous and legendary collector; The Na-tional Biscuit Collection, representing an extraordinary collection of items from the company's archives, including the original 1900 painting of the Uneeda Biscuit Boy, the corporate symbol of the company and at one time the single most famous advertising icon in the world; the largest collection of original artworks by Charles Addams to ever come to auction (21 original artworks, including many published in the New Yorker); two original Peanuts comic strip artworks by Charles Schulz including an extraor-dinary Baseball Sunday comic strip (reserve $5,000, est.
Rare farm machinery auctioned near Armidale
Hundreds of people from as far away as north Queensland and Melbourne have attended an auction of vintage and antique farm machinery south of Armidale on the weekend. The auction, on Bill Morton's property at Dangarsleigh, included rare early 20th century farming equipment. The rarest items were two Twin City tractors, which were made in the 1920s by an American company. Although they were not in working order, they still fetched prices of up to $10,000. One successful bidder, John Barwick, says it was money well spent. "It's quite unique - I haven't seen anything like it - to have machinery in as good order as this," he said. Auctioneer Victor Moore says many people were surprised by the value of the items. "Extremely unusual and a lot of the items we're seeing here are very, very rare," he said.
EU Commission warns Netherlands over ABN bids
BRUSSELS, April 19 (Reuters) - The European Commission warned the Netherlands on Thursday not to discriminate against bids for ABN AMRO (AAH.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) amid concerns about the Dutch central bank's opposition to a consortium of potential buyers. "All bids should be assessed in a non-discriminatory way," said Oliver Drewes, a spokesman for European Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy. The Dutch central bank, which would have to approve any deal, said on Wednesday that a joint takeover offer by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L: Quote, Profile, Research), Fortis (FOR.BR: Quote, Profile, Research) and Banco Santander (SAN.MC: Quote, Profile, Research) would entail "strong risks and complications". Separately, British bank Barclays (BARC.L: Quote, Profile, Research) is in exclusive talks to take over ABN AMRO.
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