Tue July 10, 2007
UpRight’s Parent Company Acquires Snorkel International
UpRight’s parent company, The Tanfield Group Plc, has purchased Snorkel International. Darren Kell, chief executive of Tanfield and UpRight, said, “This will create a new, full line manufacturer of high quality aerial work platforms, which will be a truly global force in the industry.”The combination of Snorkel’s volume production capability in the United States, plus UpRight’s existing facilities in the United Kingdom and America, will create a business with a global manufacturing footprint....
Tue June 26, 2007
Ritchie Bros. Hosts Auction, ARB Meeting in Los Angeles
Proposed regulations discussed May 25 at a public meeting of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) in San Diego generated additional consignments at an unreserved public auction held this week in Los Angeles....
Wed June 13, 2007
IronPlanet Hires Four New National Accounts Managers
IronPlanet has hired four new national accounts managers including Larry Goff, John Gougeon, Felix Rodriguez and John Paschack. “We have been very pleased with our new national accounts managers,” said Robert Alleger, CEO of IronPlanet....
Sun May 27, 2007
IronPlanet Sells $2M of Equipment
IronPlanet, an online auction house for used heavy equipment, recently sold $2 million of equipment in a one-owner auction for Keck Construction Inc. in Tulsa, Okla. The auction drew an audience of more than 7,000 visitors with bidders placing an average of 27 bids per item....
Sat May 26, 2007
Ritchie Bros. Breaks Bidder Records
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers released the results of its two-day, multi-million dollar unreserved auction held at its permanent auction site in Phoenix, Ariz. The unreserved public auction, which sold more than 2,000 items, generated gross auction sales in excess of $26 million and broke both in-person and online registered bidder records for an auction held by the company in Phoenix Feb....
Thu May 24, 2007
Ritchie Bros. Holds Official Ceremony Near Kansas City
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers held an official ground-breaking ceremony at 6 p.m. April 9 to announce the start of construction of an auction site. The ceremony took place at the Odessa Ritchie Bros. property located on US-40 at Reich Road, approximately 25 minutes east of Kansas City....
Sun May 13, 2007
Ritchie Bros. Unveils New Facility
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, a truck and industrial equipment auctioneer, unveiled its new state-of-the-art auction facility in Denver (Mead), Colo., at its grand opening reception held April 4. The event took place at its first unreserved truck and industrial equipment auction held there on April 5 and 6....
Sat May 12, 2007
Ritchie Bros. Report Reveals Increased Earnings
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated announced net earnings of $17.6 million, or $0.50 per diluted weighted average share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2007, a 33 percent increase over the comparable period in 2006....
Mon May 07, 2007
Ritchie Bros. Celebrates Grand Opening of New Facility
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers unveiled its Columbus auction facility in South Vienna, Ohio, with two events — its grand opening reception held April 10, and its first unreserved truck and industrial equipment auction held April 11 and 12, 2007....
Thu May 03, 2007
IronPlanet Continues Stellar Journey in Auction Industry
It was an entry in an annual Harvard entrepreneurial competition in 1999 and it didn’t win. In fact, nobody in the Boston area seemed to like it much. The idea was simple: to sell heavy-equipment on the Internet to interested customers, using expert inspections of the equipment to ensure quality....
