PHOENIX and CARMEL, Ind. -

ADESA announced recently that one of its locations, ADESA Golden Gate, was named the Auction of the Year for 2014 by VW Credit Inc. based on year-round measurements of key performance indicators.

The auction location was also recently honored with LeasePlan’s 2014 Stellar Performance award as well as with General Motors’ Overall Achievement awards for December, January and March.

“We are honored that so many of our industry partners are noticing the outstanding level of service ADESA Golden Gate offers,” said Stephane St-Hilaire, ADESA’s president and chief executive officer. “I want to congratulate General Manager Jeff Hoyt and everyone at the auction for their commitment to our customers.”

In other auction news, Dealers Auto Auction of the Southwest recently announced that it will be operationally paperless as of June 1, along with the release of its new app available on the Apple Store.

“With this piece of the puzzle now in place, our integrations with WhannTech mobile operational software and the ‘Web Guys’ website interface, we have been able to end the use of paper/sticker bidder badges, as our app recognizes you as you enter our building and assigns you a bid number reflected on your mobile device,” said Stephanie Gingras, DAASW’s general manager. “We also eliminated run lists as our ‘real time’ DAASW.com and .mx sites are complete with both dealer and repo condition reports, announcements, our proprietary Mexico Ready and CarFax Transparent Transactions products and at least eight pictures of each vehicle.”

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