WHITEFISH landings in Shetland continue to rise, largely due to the success of the isles’ electronic auction system.
Shetland Seafood Auction say that while the volume of landings are up 12 per cent, value has risen by 26 percent compared to 2004.
The company, which since August 2003 has operated an electronic auction system at the Lerwick […]

A website has been launched that pits lenders against one another in an auction to secure mortgage business.
The mortgagebundles.com site bundles together borrowers with similar profiles, with the aim of giving them bulk appeal to lenders.
Up to 14 lenders then bid for the bundle, with the one offering the lowest rates securing the business.
But […]

Number plates from the Mini Coopers which starred in the classic 1969 film the Italian Job - alongside Michael Caine - are to go under the hammer.
The three plates are expected to fetch up to £20,000 in the sale at Cheffins auctioneers in Cambridge on 26 January.
They are: HMP 729G, which was also Michael Caine’s […]

A Swiss businessman won the keys to James Bond’s silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on Friday with a $1.9 million (1.1 million pound) bid at an annual classic car auction in Arizona.
The 45-year-old man, who did not want to be identified, placed his bids over the telephone through friend and car dealer Beat Roos […]

On January 26 auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull of Edinburgh sell off the Drambuie collection of Scottish art, followed a day later by the company’s surplus ceramics, glass, and furniture.
In total the art is expected bring in around £3m but no single painting is expected to break the seven figure barrier.

A sophisticated fraudster who “conned for kicks” swindled more than a million pounds of paintings out of auction house Christie’s.
Posing as a multi-millionaire microbiologist, Robert Hyams bid for six masterpieces at the international auction house.And when the scam was discovered he went on the run, running up thousands of pounds worth of bills from rental […]

A bid battle broke out yesterday for the world’s biggest maker of crash test dummies, First Technology of the UK, after the American conglomerate Danaher launched an agreed £251m takeover, trumping a rival offer from its US competitor Honeywell.
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