BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Buyer
- somebody who is in the process of buying something or who intends to buy something
- somebody whose job is to choose and buy goods, merchandise, services, or media time or space for a company, factory, store, or advertiser
Wiktionary Definition for: Buyer
- A person who buys things, especially for resale in some retail establishment.
Additional Resources
- Buyer Groups As Strategic Commitments
- Buyer cooperatives, buyer alliances, and horizontal mergers are often perceived as attempts to increase buyer power. Much theoretical and empirical work has emphasized that buyer size can increase buyer surplus. In contrast, it is shown in this paper that even an arbitrarily small buyer group, if it is composed of...
- White papers 2006-08-30
- Working with a Buyer's Agent
- Buyer broker contracts are relatively new on the real estate scene. Unlike traditional agents who sign a listing contract with the seller, the buyer's agent signs a contract with the buyer. Some agents call this "listing the buyer." The real estate industry resisted the idea of buyer agency at first,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- $15,000 Home Buyer Tax Credit Gets Another Boost
- It isn't just the National Association of Realtors, Mortgage Bankers Association of America, the National Association of Home Builders and Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) who want a $15,000 home buyer tax credit. According to Bruce Hahn, president of the American Homeowners Grassroots Alliance, 70 million homeowners want...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Argyle finds Providence taker.(Argyle Television Inc., buyer for WNAC-TV Providence, RI)(Brief Article)
- Meanwhile, Argyle Television Inc. has found a buyer for WNAC-TV Providence, R.I. The buyer will pay $47.5 million, according to documents filed recently with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But who is the buyer? The obvious choice is Clear Ch Meanwhile, Argyle Television Inc. has found...
- Research articles 1997-08-11
- Is the $8,000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Enough to Save the Housing Market?
- June's new construction and existing home sales numbers are out, and I think they're a mixed bag: New home sales increased 11 percent in June over May, according to the U.S. Commerce Dept. That's the highest amount in 9 years, and welcome bit of news for market-beaten developers....
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Realtors Issue Call To Action to Extend $8,000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit
- When the going gets tough, the National Association of Realtors contacts its million-plus members and encourages them to get going. That's what happened yesterday, as the Realtors put up a video encouraging its member real estate agents and brokers to contact their Congressional representatives demanding an extension...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Pricing and Matching Under Duopoly With Imperfect Buyer Mobility
- Research on Bertrand-Edgeworth competition has recently explored how limits to buyer mobility affects pricing decisions. Burdett, Shi, and Wright envisage a two-stage game where, given prices, a static subgame is played with the buyers choosing which firm to visit. Imperfect mobility has been incorporated in a duopolistic setting where the...
- White papers 2006-01-25
- Market Design For Procurement: Empirical And Theoretical Investigation Of Buyer-Determined Multi-Attribute Mechanisms
- Reverse auctions are fast becoming the standard for many procurement activities. In the past, the majority of such auctions have been solely price-based, but increasingly attributes other than price affect the auction outcome. Specifically, the buyer uses a scoring function to compare bids, and the bid with the highest score...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- $15,000 Home Buyer Tax Credit Rejected For Cash For Clunkers Bill
- It's Cash for Clunkers - but for home buyers. That's how Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) described his $15,000 home buyer tax credit proposal. The proposed legislation would have given a $15,000 tax credit to any home buyer who bought a home, regardless of income. Sen. Isakson's proposal...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Does the $8,000 First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Discriminate?
- Does the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit discriminate based on income? One MoneyWatch.com reader thinks so.  Ann sent me the following email: Is there any avenue to file a complaint against the government for discrimination related the $8,000 new home buyer tax credit? The complaint is based on income...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Does the $8,000 Tax Credit Really Cost $43,000 Per Buyer?
- Last week, TheBigMoney.com's Martha White made a persuasive argument that the $8,000 first time home buyer tax credit should be allowed to die a natural death. Why? Because, she argues, it doesn't cost $8,000 per each first-time buyer. If you break it down...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Understanding And Influencing Organizational Buyer Behavior
- A buyer in the market goes through complex analysis and decision-making process before making a purchase. The organization needs to comprehensively understand and appreciate the subtle nuances of the buyer behavior to precisely target the prospects and hence increase the sales. The analysis of the buyer behavior begins with the...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON SAID TO BE DABAO BUYER
- AsiaInfo Services 03-28-2007 Johnson & Johnson Said to Be Dabao Buyer BEIJING, Mar 28, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Beijing Dabao Cosmetics Co., Ltd., a Beijing-based cosmetics company, is said to have found the buyer for its 100% equi AsiaInfo...
- Research articles 2007-03-28
- Buyer's Guide 2004.(A. Holliday & Company Inc.--Hummingbird Creative Group)
- Find hundreds of products and services from more than 300 coffee-related suppliers in Specialty Coffee Retailer's 10th annual Buyer's Guide. If you prefer to search the Buyer's Guide online, please visit www.specialty-coffee.com. The "Company L Find hundreds of products and services from more than 300...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- Late News.(Information Resources Inc. (IRI) has hired investment banker William Blair & Co. to find a buyer)
- IRI TAPS WM. BLAIR FOR BUYER SEARCH Pressured by a major shareholder after losing its largest client, Information Resources Inc. IRI has hired investment banker William Blair & Co. to find a buyer, executives familiar with the situation tell IRI TAPS WM. BLAIR...
- Research articles 2003-02-24
- QVC Taps Macy's Buyer For Post.
- QVC has named Donna House buyer of cookware, cutlery, gadgets and food, rounding out its pool of former Macy's merchandising executives. House joins the retailer from Macy's East, where she was cookware buyer. She will oversee the growth of the el QVC has...
- Research articles 1999-03-29
- Ariba Buyer 7.0 released Ariba.(Brief Article)
- Ariba Buyer 7.0 released Ariba recently announced the general release of Ariba Buyer 7.0, the latest version of the Internet application for automation and management of corporate sourcing, buying and internal business processes, ranging from requi Ariba Buyer 7.0 released Ariba recently announced the...
- Research articles 2000-10-19
- ACTION NEEDS A HERO.(BET Holdings Inc. will shut down pay-per-view network in absence of right buyer)
- Without Buyer; PPV Net Would Shutter BET Holdings Inc. will shut down its BET Action Pay-Per-View network on March 31 unless it can find a suitable buyer for the beleaguered service. Facing limited distribution and unable...
- Research articles 2001-01-08
- BNP PARIBAS OFFERS EXPORT BUYER'S CREDIT TO HUAWEI
- AsiaInfo Services 09-27-2004 BNP Paribas Offers Export Buyer's Credit to Huawei SHENZHEN, Sep 27, 2004 SinoCast via COMTEX -- BNP Paribas SA recently provided USD 28 million export buyer's credit to Algeria Telecom for its import of communica AsiaInfo Services...
- Research articles 2004-09-27
- Polish buyer makes offer for John Paul II's house: lawyer
- WARSAW AFP — A Polish buyer has made an offer to buy the house in southern Poland where the late Pope John Paul II was born nearly 86 years ago, a lawyer for the property's American owner said. "The buyer is Polish," attorney Jacek Michalski of Dewey Ballantine law...
- Research articles 2006-03-13
