[ASIA] Auction giant eBay Inc. Monday announced that it will acquire a majority stake in Internet Auction Co. Ltd., Korea's largest auction Web site, for approximately $120 million.
eBay will purchase "slightly more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of Internet Auction," in an all-cash transaction, the San Jose, California company said in a statement.
The company will purchase an undisclosed number of Internet Auction shares at 24,000 won (US $19) per share. This represents a slightly greater than 50 percent discount from an October, 2000, Merrill Lynch fair value estimate, which placed the low end of a price-to-earnings-growth (PEG) range at 49,000 won (US $38.78) per share. Gambling: Whats at Stake? (Information Plus Referenc.. on eBay, also :: Stake? (Information Plus Referenc.. in the , Nonfiction Books , Books category on eBay.co. shipping charges and they cover the vast majority of our books. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=32019=1&ssPageName=mem_guide:4HOME | Mac News: News: eBay Singapore Joins Web Auctioneers Empire:: eBay also has a site in Korea, where it bought a majority stake in a local auction house for US Indeed, W.R. Hambrecht & Co. analyst Derek Brown noted http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/commerce/14395.htmlHOME |
Internet Auction Co. will join eBay's Japan site as operations in Asia.
Founded in April, 1998, Internet Auction Co. currently has 2.8 million registered users, eBay said.
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