Michael Blakenham

Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. is the parent company of Sotheby's worldwide live auction businesses, art-related financing and real estate brokerage activities. The Company operates in 34 countries, with principal salesrooms located in New York and London. The Company also regularly conducts auctions in 13 other salesrooms around the world, including Australia, Hong Kong, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Singapore. Sotheby's Holdings was founded in 1744 and is headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Sotheby's operates as an art auction house. It operates through the following segments: Agency, SFS, and All Other. The Agency segment accepts property on consignment, and match sellers to buyers through the auction of private sale process. The SFS segment offers financing packages to clients who wish to obtain immediate access to liquidity from their art assets. The All Other segment comprises of advisory services, retail wine business, and brand licensing activities. The company was founded by Samuel Baker on March 11, 1744 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

MEPC (1946) Ltd. provides real estate services. It focuses on portfolio of business, science parks and factory outlets. The firm’s parks serve national and international businesses and industrial facilities. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of Nikkei, Inc., The Financial Times (United States) is a publisher of international business newspapers. The company is based in New York, NY. The CEO of the company is John Joseph Ridding.

Lafarge SA engaged in the production and marketing of building materials. It produces and sells cement, aggregates and ready-mix concrete. The company's building products and solutions were used to construct and renovate homes, buildings and infrastructures. It provided its services under the brand name Lafarge. The company operated through the following divisions: Cement, and Aggregates and Concrete. The Cement division produced and sold a wide range of cement and hydraulic binders adapted to the needs of the construction industry. It also offered specialty cements suitable for use in a variety of environmental conditions and specific applications, natural lime hydraulic binders, masonry cements, and ground blast furnace slag. The Aggregates and Concrete division produced and sold aggregates, ready mix concrete, and products relating to paving activities. It also offered plaster based products which include plaster plate, plaster squares, coatings, metal framework and industrial plaster. Lafarge was founded by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge in 1833 and was headquartered in Toulouse, France.