 glass Chelsea House curio cabinet in their haste to load it into a pickup truck. The dealer paid $355 for the piece, and is hoping to sell it for significantly more. The glass is miraculously intact, and the rest of the piece mostly unharmed. Everyone in the room catches their collective breath.
Pick-ups are normally pretty uneventful, though, Ashley, Jake, and Phil will be glad when the day is over. They purposely stay cordial, but mostly hands-off, as buyers come to collect the treasures they’ve won. A middle-aged couple looks especially happy walking out with the signed Peter Max poster, which they snagged for $360.
Jake’s just been promoted to organizer and next week Ashley will move on to cataloguing a new sale up in Sharonville. A few days after that an e-mail will pop up in targeted inboxes across the country touting “Our biggest, most incredible sale yet!”—the contents of the Strader family’s Clifton estate (Jack Strader was a local radio personality). This one has a story with it, told by Strader’s grandson, and includes everything from an “antique porcelain toilet bottle” with bids hovering around $12, to three volumes of “Audubon’s The Quadrupeds of North America,” whose bids on day six were already up to $7,650.
The executive team is quick to note that high-profile estates are more the exception than the norm. “When you use the term estate, a lot of people think wealth,” says Reynolds. “It’s really the typical home we handle.” Like the one in Mt. Adams, or the one where Ashley is headed next—a former professor’s place with a lot of science glass, Asian decor, and a Lionel train set.
Back at EBTH headquarters, plans are in the works for a new $1 million, 100,000-square-foot distribution center on Cooper Road in Blue Ash (state tax incentives came through this spring). It’s a response, say Jon and Andy, to continually climbing “e-commerce volumes” that will ultimately “cut down on shipping times.” The executive team is working diligently to stay ahead of the curve in an estate sales market “driven by downsizing,” says Andy, that is estimated to grow “by $10 billion between now and 2020.” And although “the baby boomer generation will be downsizing through 2034,” he notes in an e-mail, “Generation X is expected to surpass the size of the baby boomer generation by 2028—and the Millennial generation already outsizes both the boomers and Gen X!” In other words, as the folks at EBTH see it, almost everyone on this planet—well into the foreseeable future—will be downsizing at some point, so business is safe.
Given those facts, EBTH’s main goal is ambitious—becoming “the household name” in estate sales, says Reynolds. But for a booming online auction company that started out as a partnership between two tag-sale buddies, the sky really might just be the limit. Sure, there will always be problems to work out. Denny and Graves continue to worry about losing that human element; as the business has grown, Denny admits “it’s harder to maintain the personal touch.” And, according to the Better Business Bureau website, where the company maintains a 3.8 out of 5 rating, shipping is still a thorn in EBTH’s side (it accounts for the majority of the company’s consumer complaints). Even on employee review website Glassdoor.com, current and former staffers alike often mention “constant change” in structure and processes as a challenging byproduct of EBTH’s rapid growth. The company takes this uncensored feedback to heart, say Denny and Graves, while trying “to see the common themes within [complaints] and just work that much harder to eliminate misunderstanding.”
There is also always the distinct possibility that an even bigger fish could try to buy them out. “At the end of the day, it’s whatever’s best for our clients,” says Graves of the chance. “It wasn’t just about creating this business for the benefit of us, it was about creating this for the people that need access to this.” Then again, says Andy, “if we’re here in 20 years, we’re all happy.”
After all, they’ve already chosen the next 12 to 15 cities for expansion, says Reynolds, and somewhere within those cities, or the next few, will be international markets. As soon as he says that, the rest of the executive team breaks out in excited chatter. Before long, someone yells: “Conquer the world! On a covered wagon!”
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Nick L., senior geologist
Nick’s career has enabled him to work across locations and develop knowledge across the upstream value chain, working in exploration, on development projects and on producing assets.
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Less than one year into the programme, Nick was geosteering a long-reach horizontal well on the Halfdan field in the middle of the Danish North Sea, using real-time downhole log data to make decisions to ensure we were hitting the sweet spot in a particular reservoir zone.
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Eight years and five positions later, that experience, exposure and perspective has stayed with him and helped him make better plans and decisions along the way. Nick believes the chance to live in different countries and work on complex projects in challenging environments like the North Sea, West Africa and the Gulf of Mexico has been fundamental to his continued enjoyment at work and helps him bring “better energy” to the intellectual and technical challenges he faces.
"Being challenged by interesting and exciting projects has been vital for a stimulating and engaging career”, Nick.
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2017 to present
Senior development geologist on the Jack field in the U.S.A., based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2017
Project manager for the Al Shaheen transition to NOC and close-down of Maersk Oil Qatar, based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2016-2017
Development geologist for the Jack field in the U.S.A., based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2014-2016
Development geologist for the Chissonga project in Angola, based in Houston, U.S.A.
2010-2014
Exploration geologist for North Sea and West Africa, based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2008-2010
MITAS Geologist with wellsite, exploration and development rotations in the U.K. and Denmark, based in Aberdeen, U.K.On 6 July 2017, 636,569 B Ordinary Shares (the â€œSharesâ€) were allotted pursuant to the Offer. In accordance with the terms and conditions of the Offer, the offer prices at which the Shares were allotted were calculated by reference to the unaudited net asset value of a B Ordinary Share in the Company as at 31 December 2016 (as announced in the Quarterly Report of the Company released on 1 February 2017), being 107.13p per B Ordinary Share, adjusted for the dividend paid on 7 June 2017. The offer prices at which the Shares were issued and allotted ranged from 106.38p to 111.73p per B Ordinary Share.
Application for the Shares to be admitted to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchangeâ€™s main market for listed securities will be made shortly and dealings are expected to commence on or around 10 July 2017.Â CRESTÂ accounts are expected to be credited as soon as practicable following the allotment and definitive documents of title are expected to be dispatched within ten business days of allotment.
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