KAR Global announced three leadership promotions across its wholesale-market enterprise on Tuesday morning. The new appointments include Mike Caggiano as executive vice president of U.S. operations at ADESA, Scott Meyer as vice president of reconditioning services and finance at ADESA, and Richard Carpentier as head of inspection solutions at KAR Global. In explaining the moves, […] [Read More]

ACV Auctions has reeled off two straight months of best-ever sales for the digital auto marketplace, while also notching several other milestones in June. In May, ACV sold 31,350 of 45,000 unique wholesale units listed, then followed that up by selling 40,242 of 53,000 units in June. “It’s now apparent that the shift to digital […] [Read More]

In this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits chats with Copart vice president and head of marketing Michelle Hoffman and Yoker Vidal, who is the senior director for Copart's non-insurance division. They discuss how being online for 17 years helped the company once COVID-19 hit and how Copart has […] [Read More]

Auction Academy is carrying on with its training program, but participants will be relegated to computer screens for the remainder of the year. Auction Academy president Penny Wanna announced on Monday that its current Class 6 Group will gather via a virtual classroom. Furthermore, the group’s previously scheduled quarterly meetings for 2020 are being replaced […] [Read More]

The Advantage Rent a Car bankruptcy gave SIXT a chance to enhance its U.S. footprint for renting its premium fleet of vehicles. According to a news release distributed just before the holiday weekend, a Delaware bankruptcy court approved SIXT taking over 10 airport branches in the United States from Advantage Rent a Car. Starting most […] [Read More]

Twelve additional Manheim auctions will begin piloting the return of in-lane bidding this week, following the company’s initial pilot run at five locations. Dealers at the pilot locations are able to bid in-lane through Digital Block sales, which include in-lane bidding on site at Manheim auctions with a live auctioneer and simulcast. Vehicles remain stationary […] [Read More]

When you think of Carvana, you probably think of digital retail (and rightly so).  But the online used-car marketplace made a move last month that “lays the path for us to also be the leading online wholesaler,” says Scott Wood, the company’s senior director of wholesale operations. In late June, Carvana announced that through a […] [Read More]

When it comes to supply entering the wholesale market, look for that to be “higher than expected” the remainder of the year, Black Book said in its weekly COVID-19 Market Update released Tuesday. But such high supply could be mitigated by strong retail demand, according to another analysis from J.D Power. Driving the expectation for […] [Read More]

Wholesale-price increases accelerated as June and likely the most tumultuous second quarter in anyone’s memory neared an end. How long the fuel for that wholesale-price climb will last is almost as challenging to project as when the coronavirus pandemic will stop influencing the auction and dealership worlds. Black Book, Cox Automotive and J.D. Power Valuation […] [Read More]

The first half of 2020 has been mired with challenges in the wholesale car market, but one particularly positive trend has emerged at the tail end of the of second quarter. Auction sales volume have made a strong comeback and are now at or above year-ago figures, according to industry analyses. In its weekly COVID-19 […] [Read More]