Nicolas Darveau-Garneau

Liquor.com is the inspiring digital publication dedicated to good drinking and great living. The right cocktail at the right time; home-entertaining advice; essential recipes and indispensable spirits; the people and places that matter now.

Based in San Francisco, CA, BigDeal.com is a venture-backed company that is pioneering a new type of auction called the GUARANTEED AUCTION. Guaranteed auctions are different than typical Internet auctions in the following three ways: 1. Winners of guaranteed auctions get a huge discount, typically 65%-90% off retail. We only auction new, factory-sealed items with a 100% return guarantee. 2. In order to win an auction, users purchase bids for $0.75 each. This keeps competition low, resulting in huge discounts for the winner. 3. Users who don’t win the Guaranteed Auction get ALL their money back to purchase the auction item at its retail price and can apply their money to get a discount on a gift card.

Liquor.com is the inspiring digital publication dedicated to good drinking and great living. The right cocktail at the right time; home-entertaining advice; essential recipes and indispensable spirits; the people and places that matter now.

Bernstein is widely recognized as Wall Streets premier sell-side research and brokerage firm, with a global equity trading platform that spans the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Our firm was founded in the U.S. in 1967 and in the U.K. in 1999. Our research and trading capabilities are sought out by leading investment managers around the world, and we are annually ranked at the top of our industry by acknowledged arbiters. In independent surveys of major institutional clients, Bernsteins research is ranked #1 for overall quality, industry knowledge, most trusted, best detailed financial analysis, major company studies, most useful valuation frameworks and best original research. In Institutional Investor’s latest annual client survey, the leading survey by which research analysts in our industry are evaluated, over 90% of our U.S. analysts and the majority of our European Analysts were recognized as among the best in their respective fields – more than any other firm in our industry. We began operations in Hong Kong in 2010, and now cover a range of sectors across Asia. Our European research team is also home to Extels #1-ranked analyst across Europe. In April 2019 we acquired Autonomous Research, a highly regarded global financial services independent research firm. The combination of Bernstein and Autonomous solidifies our standing as the largest global independent research firm. Research has always been Bernsteins calling card. The brand is defined by our renowned Blackbooks, known for their unbiased, in-depth company and industry forecasts. We have a community of Research Analysts who are acknowledged thought leaders that typically have many years of experience in the industries they cover. Our reputation is for the very highest caliber of independent and disciplined investment and industry analysis. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of our buy-side parent, AB.