The SPEC MIX BRICKLAYER 500 North Texas Regional event and its live mason contractor auction raised $58,700 at the sixth annual Bricks, Blocks & Bags for Bikes Charity Auction. The money enabled the local group of “Santa’s Helpers” to purchase 1,000 bikes for underprivileged youth in the North Texas area.
Last month, Ritchie Bros. conducted its largest-ever December auction in Texas, selling $86+ million of equipment and trucks for 800+ consignors in three days.
The National Steering Committee (NSC) for the Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program is pleased to announce they raised more than $1.740 million in gross revenue at its annual auction, held in conjunction with World of Concrete.
Last week Ritchie Bros. conducted its first-ever online-only auction in Mexico, at its site in Polotitlán. Traditionally the site sees 80+ percent of its bidders participating in person, so this was a big challenge for the company—and it succeeded.
Ritchie Bros.' massive Edmonton, AB auction site is filling up quickly, with more than 10,000 items set to sell on Monday, May 11 through Friday, May 15. Because of local crowd size restrictions due to COVID-19, there will be no in-person bidding—all bidding must be done online at rbauction.com.
Thanks to its industry-leading online bidding system and mobile application, Ritchie Bros. will continue to conduct regular onsite auctions, with minor, temporary changes to the process and procedure of those events.
Ritchie Bros. continues to attract record numbers of bidders in 2020, with its latest auction in Fort Worth, TX registering 9,150+ bidders from 65 countries.
Ritchie Bros. broke multiple records at its latest six-day auction in Orlando, with over 18,100 bidders buying more than 13,500 equipment items and trucks.
Through donations from the Texas masonry community, SPEC MIX, Larry Sauls and Friends, and Academy Sports partnered to raise enough money to donate 2,000 bikes for underprivileged kids in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.