BNET Industries
Market Cap:$1.2B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$917.7M
- Public
- US
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Sothebys (or, together with its subsidiaries, unless the context otherwise requires, the Company) is one of the worlds two largest auctioneers of authenticated fine art, antiques and decorative art, jewelry and collectibles. In 2008, Sothebys accounted for $4.9 billion, or 51%, of the total aggregate auction sales of the two major auction houses that comprise the global auction market.
Number of Employees 1,638
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Art Dealers: 453920
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Rowling writes first book since Potter finale
- 2007-11-01
LONDON AFP — Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has written a new book, her first since the final best-seller about the boy wizard came out earlier this year, she told BBC radio Thursday. But most fans will not be able to buy a copy of "The Tales Of Beedle...
Australian Aboriginal painting fetches record price
- 2007-07-24
MELBOURNE AFP — A painting by the late Australian Aboriginal artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was sold Tuesday for a world record price of 2.4 million dollars (2.1 million US dollars), Sotheby's said. Tjapaltjarri's iconic masterpiece "Warlugulong 1977" fetched more than double the previous record of 1.056 million dollars for...
Daily News, New York, Ticker Column.
- 2003-03-12
Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 12--Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses said they will pay $20 million each to settle class-action claims by overseas customers stemming from their price-fixing scandal. The government contends the top auction houses...
Institutions discover the art of making money.
- 2002-04-26
Apr 26, 2002 The Age ABIX via COMTEX -- Art continues to strengthen as an investment choice. A fine art investment fund was launched in the United Kingdom in April 2002. Co-managed by Dresdner Klenwort Capital, the fund will invest about $US350 million on...
Soundings
- 1999-12-01
))) Navy Names New Ship for Oceanographer Mary Sears. Richard Danzig, secretary of the Navy, named the U.S. Navy's newest oceanographic survey vessel for Mary Sears, honoring one of this country's earliest women pioneers in oceanography. It is the first Navy oceanographic survey ship named for a woman. Mary Sears...
Business World
- 1998-02-04
$3 billion on the block NEW YORK Bloomberg -- Patriot American Hospitality is in talks for acquisitions totaling almost $3 billion. The pace of the real estate investment trust's acquisitions is being accelerated by the economic turmoil in Asia, Chairman and Chief Executive Paul Nussbaum said. Patriot...
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