Wholesale
Lane watch: Estimated average weekly sales rate drops to lowest point of 2022
Thursday, Sep. 8, 2022, 05:59 PM
Auto Remarketing Staff
Perhaps the timeframe should be considered since the drops in wholesale values and estimated average weekly sales rate reported by Black Book derive from the span that closed during the heart of Labor Day weekend. Still, Black Book said on Wednesday that wholesale values dropped by another 0.93% last week, while the estimated average weekly […] [Read More]
Byrd and Wolfe honored as NAAA Industry Pioneers
Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2022, 08:41 PM
Auto Remarketing Staff
The National Auto Auction Association honored two distinguished individuals as Industry Pioneers as part of its annual convention in Dallas on Wednesday. First, NAAA named Wolfe’s Auto Auctions founder and president R. Tony Wolfe as an Industry Pioneer for his leadership, vision and dedication to the auto auction industry throughout his career. Also tabbed as […] [Read More]
NAAA names Scolese and Carmona as 2022 Warren Young Fellows
Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2022, 08:38 PM
Auto Remarketing Staff
Wednesday activities during the National Auto Auction Association’s annual convention in Dallas included the naming of the two newest Warren Young Fellows. Collecting the accolades for 2022 were a pair of executives from the Cox family of companies — Paul Scolese and Hugo Carmona. According to news releases from NAAA, Scolese received the award for […] [Read More]
DAAG enters Atlanta market via acquisition
Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2022, 04:29 PM
Auto Remarketing Staff
In a move that became effective Sept. 1, Dealers Auto Auction Group expanded its wholesale footprint in the Southeast by entering the Atlanta market with the acquisition of VIP Auto Auction. By adding the location at 4600 Browns Ridge Road in Cumming, Ga., DAAG now has nine locations throughout the Southeast. “We are very excited […] [Read More]
America’s Auto Auction names VP of institutional sales
Tuesday, Sep. 6, 2022, 05:45 PM
Auto Remarketing Staff
Before Labor Day, America’s Auto Auction expanded its national dealer and commercial sales team. Then after the holiday weekend, the company appointed Jennifer Leocardi to be vice president of institutional sales for the combined America’s Auto Auction and XLerate Group. A 20-year industry veteran, America’s Auto Auction said through a news release that Leocardi brings a […] [Read More]
Autosled welcomes Urgently & Merlin Mobility co-founder to board
Thursday, Sep. 1, 2022, 06:27 PM
Auto Remarketing Staff
Autosled announced this week that Ric Fleisher, co-founder of Urgently and Merlin Mobility, recently joined the board of advisors of the automotive digital logistics marketplace for retail automotive dealers and transport providers. Earlier in the year, Autosled closed a $5 million Series A round led by Lyndon Rive and established its board of directors with […] [Read More]
EBlock acquires physical auctions to give dealers the option of transacting digitally or in-lane
Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, 04:18 PM
Arlena Sawyers, Correspondent
Though digital technology puts buying and selling of vehicles at dealers fingertips virtually anytime and anywhere, the demise of physical auctions and its hands-on approach is greatly exaggerated. That’s according to Jason McClenahan, a trained auctioneer and chief executive officer of E Inc., the Canadian retail tech firm that operates the EBlock digital wholesale marketplace. […] [Read More]
ACV files antitrust suit against several auto auction industry entities
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, 07:18 PM
Joe Overby, Senior Editor
ACV Auctions filed an antitrust complaint Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York against the National Auto Auction Association, Auto Auction Services Corp., Manheim, ADESA, ServNet Auction Group and the Independent Auction Group. This news was first reported by Automotive News on Tuesday. In the filing, ACV alleges a […] [Read More]
IAA reinforces capacity in NJ
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, 04:08 PM
Auto Remarketing Staff
The busy summer of expansions by IAA continued on Tuesday, as the company opened a new facility in the Northeast. IAA announced the opening of its “state-of-the-art” IAA Port Murray branch in New Jersey. As its sixth branch in the Garden State, the company said the Port Murray facility increases IAA’s capacity by more than […] [Read More]
Lane watch: Estimated sales rates keep falling
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, 04:06 PM
Auto Remarketing Staff
For just the second time this year, Black Book reported the estimated average weekly sales rate dropped to 60%. Last week’s reading matched the low point of the year that analysts also spotted during the week that actually closed on … [Read More]