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Synutra International, Inc. , a leading infant formula company in China, and a producer, marketer and seller of nutritional products for infants, children and adults, today announced that it ranked 5th overall in last week’s China Central Television (CCTV) 2009 primetime advertising slot auction. The Company was awarded advertising slots approximately equivalent to a gross tender of RMB 223.4 million (USD $32.85 million), a 40% increase over its television advertising spending of RMB 158.0 million (USD $23.23 million) in the previous year. The slots granted to the Company exceeded those granted to the other dairy and infant formula industry participants in the auction.

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CCTV Primetime Advertising Auction

TOKYOBID is a multilanguage delegated bidding system designed for overseas Web users who are interested in Japanese products. Users can use English or Thai to search and bid for over 15 million items listed on major Japanese auctions sites. Winning bid items are opened and their contents checked, temporarily stored in TOKYOBID warehouses, and then shipped internationally according to the user’s instructions. Credit cards and Paypal are supported as payment methods.
Initially, Yahoo! Auctions (Japan) will be supported, and will be expanded to other auction services according to user demand.

Japanese domestic shipping, content checking, warehousing, packing and international shipping will be managed. All of the transactions will be handled by Japanese staff. Package professionals recognized by the Institute of Packaging Professionals Japan will handle packing. Problems commonly encountered when using delegated bidding and export agents are minimized. Also, TOKYOBID PROTECTION will provide a compensation system in case of any problems (*conditions may apply), and thus the system can be enjoyed safely.

Products and content originating in Japan are available worldwide. However, it is difficult to obtain products from Japan not available on a commercial basis. Due to the difficulty in purchasing these types of items from Japan, the fact was that many people could not get the items they wanted. In particular, the big language barrier makes it virtually impossible to sell items on Japanese auctions sites using a foreign language. During service launch, TOKYOBID will provide Thai language services as well as English, which is the main language used by Web users. TOKYOBID will continue to offer more languages and will strive to remove the language barrier.

TOKYOBID will become the infrastructure to connect Japanese “Sellers” and worldwide “Buyers” and will strive to create a system where anybody, anywhere will be able to obtain goods from Japan.

About OCLCOM
Operate “TOKYOBID” service which enables worldwide bidders to participate in Japanese online auctions. Operate “Soryo no Tora”, one of the largest shipping portal sites in Japan with 3 million monthly page views.

http://www.tokyobid.com/

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OCLCOM Launches TOKYOBID for Japanese Online Auctions

Very good results were achieved at the two-day Ketterer Kunst auction marathon in Hamburg. The evening auction alone achieved overall proceeds amounting to € 550 000*, topping an estimated sales volume of € 450 000. At approx € 1 300 000, the overall proceeds from the auction of Rare Books - Manuscripts - Autographs - Decorative Prints on 17 & 18 November 2008 match the results achieved at this year’s spring auction.

Fetching € 114 000*, the extremely rare original edition of a letter written by Maximilianus Transsylvanus, secretary to the imperial court of Charles V, achieved the highest price at this auction. In his letter, Transsylvanus reports to the cardinal-bishop of Salzburg on the circumnavigation of the globe by Ferdinand Magellan. A European dealer secured the book with a sealed bid in writing that would have left some scope for bidding up, thus surpassing the € 94 300* already achieved at Ketterer Kunst in 2004 for one of the four published editions of “De Moluccis insulis …”.

Auction info www.kettererkunst.com

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Magellan Letter Auctioned at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg