Nationwide Auction Systems (NATIONWIDE) was founded in 1978. NATIONWIDE is the world's largest professional Auctioneering Service Company specializing in the disposal of surplus property, such as vehicles, equipment, boats, repossessions, excess inventory, asset seizures, business liquidations, equipment-realignments and other assets which are no longer needed in current operations on behalf of governmental agencies and private industry. Annual gross revenues exceed $100 million for over 2,000 active clients.

NATIONWIDE'S U.S.A. Headquarters is located in the Los Angeles suburb of City of Industry, California. Our other permanent facilities are located in Benicia, California, City of Industry, California, and San Diego, California. All sites are approximately 15 acres in size and fully secured and bonded. NATIONWIDE conducts 80 to 100 auctions at these permanent locations each year with a core staff of professionals. They include working executives, operational specialists, and a standing cadre of auctioneers that are the best in the business. NATIONWIDE'S auctions have been returning top dollar to government agencies, law enforcement agencies, and commercial firms for over twenty-eight (28) years.

NATIONWIDE auctions a variety of commodities to include but not limited to automobiles, light, medium and heavy duty trucks, construction equipment, aircraft, boats, precious metals, scrap metal, entire business liquidations (retail and commercial), commercial and residential real estate, vacant land, industrial plant equipment, electronics and jewelry.

The NATIONWIDE concept of operations is founded on the philosophy of partnership with the public and private agencies being served. For the government agency and private companies, NATIONWIDE coordinates and supports all auction operations from the headquarters in the City of Industry, CA.

Currently, NATIONWIDE conducts a significant part of its auction business at customers' sites through the use of its mobile auction fleet. The mobile fleet is equipped with electrical generators, sound systems, communications, cashiering facilities and computers for the financial and management data base systems. With this mobile capacity, NATIONWIDE'S Mobile Auction Team can support auctions of any size, at any place within the United States, Europe, Far East, or any place around the world. Advance teams experienced in setting up, coordinating support services, and conducting auctions are available immediately to begin this effort.

NATIONWIDE has a core group of management staff to develop marketing strategies, which will attract the largest number of potential bidders and assure enthusiastic buyer response at the auction. The strategy for each auction includes a marketing plan, which helps us to identify our target markets from the more than 600,000 qualified bidders in our continuously updated database. Our plan evaluates the best method of publicity either direct mail, telemarketing, or a broad advertising campaign including newspapers, specialty trade publications, electronic media, the Internet, and other communications networking systems.

Whether NATIONWIDE is at the customer's site to dispose of excess equipment and materials, or relocates the surplus to a NATIONWIDE facility, the same high quality services and performance results are achieved. Our sellers have full assurance of safety, security, prompt and accurate settlement transactions. This is the basis of the NATIONWIDE AUCTION SYSTEMS reputation and strong customer following throughout the years.