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...Think sax and you think shades, languor, John Coltrane. Think clarinet and you think Acker Bilk, waistcoats and bowler hats....
...Could you please give some more details about the hairstyles of her colleagues, Dr John Hickey and Dr Ian Dunn? Daniella Acker Bristol, UK...
...“Market power has switched from the critic to the brand,” notes John Kapon, chief executive of Acker, Merrall & Condit....
...Dr John Hickey, a 34-year-old quantitative geneticist at Roslin who grew up in Ireland on a sheep and cattle farm, specialises in this field....
...John Browne’s was to take BP into the league of top oil majors. This was realised through a series of huge takeovers. The third key comparison is about the handling of opportunities....
...Don’t just check out the usual international suspects – Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Bonhams, Acker Merrall & Condit, Zachys and the like – often you will do better at smaller regional auction houses....
...And US auction house Acker Merrall & Condit has high hopes for its upcoming sale in New York after a successful first auction of the year in Hong Kong....
...Renault will unveil a fourth-generation of its Clio hatchback, the first production-ready car to have been designed by Laurens van den Acker, the design chief brought in three years ago to spice up a line-up...
...John Kapon, chief executive of Acker Merrall & Condit, the wine auctioneer which conducted Friday’s sale, said it was “testament to the continued growth of the auction market for fine and rare wine”....
...Britain’s Sonar team of John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Steve Thomas joined Ainslie on the top step of the podium....
...Unlike some other carmaking design heads who report to research and development chiefs, Mr Van den Acker sits on Renault’s six-member executive board....
...If Hong Kong’s current financial secretary John Tsang succeeds in his mission to relax the mainland’s draconian import laws, then the dam will break too....
...Meanwhile, Hong Kong has seen a string of quite exceptional sales, prices and percentages, culminating most recently with Acker Merrall & Condit’s auction of Eric Greenberg’s cellar last month....
...Ponsot knew that the first vintage of this wine was 1982, so he asked John Kapon, head of Acker, to send him photographs of all 107 bottles of Ponsot wines in the forthcoming sale....
...For instance, the latest Acker Merrall & Condit sale on May 30 in Hong Kong netted $4.8m for the New York auction house, topping its March sale which raised $4.5m....
...In the good times, two New York area houses, Acker Merrall & Condit and Zachys, supplanted Sotheby’s and Christie’s ....
...The results were “a testament to the strength of the wine market in Asia and Hong Kong’s leading role as a regional hub of fine and rare wines”, said John Kapon, president of Acker Merrall & Condit....
...Only last month, an Acker Merrall & Condit sale in New York saw a vertical of Krug Clos du Mesnil fetching $29,000 (€18,000, £14,800), while two bottles of Dom Perignon rosé (which once belonged to the Shah...
...Among international wine auction houses and dealers reacting to the tax cut, Acker Merrall & Condit, the US’s oldest wine shop, and UK-based auction house Bonhams both said they would hold their first Asian...
...“Fine and rare wines’ prices have gone up 50 to 100 per cent during the past two years in the finest and rarest categories,” says John Kapon, president and auction director of Acker Merrall and Condit, America...
...John Kapon, the president of Acker Merrall Condit, the Manhattan retailer and wine auction house, says that many buyers, unable or unwilling to purchase 2005 Bordeaux and Burgundies, have been directing...
...For Acker’s young president, John Kapon, it was a moment to savour and affirmation that the strategy he chose to take Acker to the pinnacle of the wine auction business was a wise one....
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