Ritchie Bros. to Sell Highest Number of Items in Company's 40-year History.ORLANDO, Fla. -- Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE: RBA & TSX: RBA), sells, through unreserved public auctions, a broad range of used and unused industrial equipment including equipment utilized in the construction, transportation, material handling, mining, forestry, petroleum, marine, Incorporated (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :RBA RBA Rare Bird Alert RBA Reserve Bank of Australia RBA Run Book Automation RBA Rochester Business Alliance RBA Rights-Based Approach RBA Royal Brunei Airlines (ICAO code) RBA Relative Byte Address RBA relative binding affinity )(NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :RBA) - Over 5,000 Items to be Sold at Giant Florida Auction Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world's largest auctioneer of industrial equipment, is selling more items than ever before at its longest unreserved auction in Orlando this week (February 21-25), with over 5,000 equipment items being sold by unreserved auction over the five-day period. Thousands of interested bidders from around the world have traveled to the Ritchie Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . auction site in Orlando to take part in this ground-breaking event. "It's the first five-day auction sale our Company has held in over 40 years of business," said Gary Seybold, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' Regional Manager for Florida. "There's a huge selection of late-model equipment and it will all be sold to the highest bidder HIGHEST BIDDER, contracts. He who, at an auction, offers the greatest price for the property sold. 2. The highest bidder is entitled to have the article sold at his bid, provided there has been no unfairness on his part. . It looks like it's going to be a big auction; we recently expanded our Orlando yard, and it's already completely full." The Ritchie Bros. Orlando auction site (at the corner of I-4 & US Hwy 27 -- 700 Ritchie Road -- in Davenport, Florida Davenport is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,924 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 1,995. ) currently holds the Company's record for largest gross auction sales. A four-day Orlando auction in February 2005 generated over US$79 million in gross auction sales, beating the previous record set in Moerdijk, The Netherlands just months earlier. More than 4,600 people from 62 countries and all 50 American states registered to compete at the February 2005 Orlando auction for nearly 3,600 equipment items and trucks. In this current, five-day auction, featured equipment items include: 135 wheel loaders, 120 loader backhoes, 200 crawler Also known as a "Web crawler," "spider," "ant," "robot" (bot) and "intelligent agent," a crawler is a program that searches for information on the Web. Crawlers are widely used by Web search engines to index all the pages on a site by following the links from page to page. tractors, 210 hydraulic excavators, 72 articulated dump trucks, two-2003 Cat 627G Auger motor scrapers, three-2003 John Deere 9520 4WD agricultural tractors, 15-2003 Kenworth T2000 T/A T/A Turnaround T/A Traffic Analysis T/A Time/Attendance T/A Trading As T/A Trans America T/A Tonsils/Adenoids T/A Training/Allowance T/A Traction/Advantage (BF Goodrich) T/A Team Assistance T/A Table of Allowance truck tractors, 61 service trucks and more. Here is the breakdown of what is selling each day, starting at 8 a.m. local time: Day One (Feb 21): Forklifts, scissorlifts, agricultural tractors, utility tractors, air compressors, light towers Day Two (Feb 22): Wheel loaders, motor graders, motor scrapers, articulated dump trucks, loader backhoes Day Three (Feb 23): Crawler tractors, cranes, compactors, rollers Day Four (Feb 24): Skid steer loaders, hydraulic and mini excavators, hydraulic hammers, airplane hangars Day Five (Feb 25): Truck tractors, dump trucks, water trucks, fuel & lube trucks, service trucks ATTENTION: MEDIA - An aerial photo showing all the equipment of this giant, five-day auction is available for your use on the CP/AP networks. About Ritchie Bros. Ritchie Bros. is the world's largest auctioneer of industrial equipment, operating through over 110 locations in more than 25 countries around the world. Ritchie Bros. sells, through unreserved public auctions, a broad range of used and unused industrial equipment including equipment utilized in the construction, transportation, material handling, mining, forestry, petroleum, marine and agricultural industries. The Company maintains a web site at www.rbauction.com. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (TSX:RBA) (NYSE:RBA) |
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