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Construction Equipment

Need a military-spec’d wheel loader or dozer? New GovPlanet site offers military rolling stock starting in November

Rolling stock coming out of U.S. military inventories will start selling in November on GovPlanet, a subsidiary of online heavy equipment and truck marketplace IronPlanet. Awarded a U.S. Defense Logistics Agency contract in July, IronPlanet will use its new online auction site to dispose of between $50 to 70 million government surplus rolling stock assets. […]

September 30, 2014

Business

IronPlanet positions itself to be multi-channel solution for online equipment buying

IronPlanet is now targeting a whole spectrum of equipment disposal options, designed to make the most out of its 1 million unique customer registrations, says Greg Owens, chairman and CEO. “We are a multi-solution online marketplace with three different channels. We’ve become an advisor in used equipment dispositions,” Owens said during a press briefing at […]

March 5, 2014

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: Tour the largest heavy equipment auction in the world, in this Ritchie Bros. Orlando gallery

[imagebrowser id=30] Each year, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers sets up its own temporary version of Disney World in Orlando, Florida. But, as the gallery above attests, this one’s for equipment junkies. The annual Orlando equipment auction is known as “The Big One” and is the largest equipment auction in the world. Folks come from across the […]

February 20, 2014

Construction Equipment

IronPlanet and Mascus partner for “seamless integration” between two auction websites

Iron Planet and Mascus have announced a partnership that will result in the “seamless integration” between the two equipment auction websites. In the 13 years since its launch, Iron Planet has registered more than 1 million users and sold more than $3 billion worth of used heavy equipment. The Netherlands-based Mascus sells construction equipment, trucks […]

January 22, 2014

Construction Equipment

Case is auctioning off an SR175 skid steer with proceeds benefitting the United Way

Case has partnered with the AMSOIL World Championship Snowmobile Derby to auction off a brand new SR175 skid steer. The blind auction begins today at noon CST and will end at 5 p.m. CST on Friday, January 24. Bidding will start at $15,000 and you can place bids at www.casece.com/sslauction. All proceeds from the loader’s […]

January 20, 2014

Construction Equipment

New and used Backhoe sales trends for January 2014

January 1, 2014

Business

Despite record Q4, Ritchie Bros. equipment sales fall to $3.8 billion in 2013

Despite a record-breaking fourth quarter, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers saw equipment sales fall 3 percent in 2013 to $3.8 billion. “This was an important year for our business,” said CEO Peter Blake in a prepared statement. “We had a focused strategy to grow our sales force and improve the performance of our underwritten (or ‘at risk’) […]

December 26, 2013

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eBay’s new Heavy Equipment Center promotes partner equipment sellers, hosts weekly auctions

The online marketplace eBay is ramping up its efforts to sell more used heavy equipment. “There is a step change in how eBay is approaching the business and industrial category, specifically heavy equipment, this year and into 2014,” say Rob Francis, who manages the company’s business and industrial business units. On December 1, eBay launched […]

December 4, 2013

Business

Ritchie Bros. boosts revenues, doubles profit in 3Q

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers announced today a sizable gain in revenues in the third quarter and a huge profit increase. The company brought in auction revenues of $105.8 million. That’s a 15-percent increase from the same period last year. Meanwhile, profit grew 101 percent to $16.4 million. When excluding the after-tax effects of excess property sales and […]

November 5, 2013

Construction Equipment

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers becomes reality TV star in new Canadian TV show “Selling Big”

Our friends at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers have been featured on TV many times before, but now they are officially Canadian TV stars. The recently-launched Cottage Life channel, a Canadian cable network with shows that cover DIY, cooking, entertaining, real estate and outdoor living, is currently airing a 13-episode series called “Selling Big.” The series stars […]

September 9, 2013

Construction Equipment

IronPlanet launches TruckPlanet, an online marketplace for commercial trucks

Having sold $500 million worth of used trucks to date, IronPlanet is no stranger to serving that market. And given that success, the company has launched TruckPlanet, a separate website dedicated solely to the buying and selling of used commercial trucks.  The site will hold its first auction Tuesday, May 7 when it sells off 300 […]

May 1, 2013

Construction Equipment

Ritchie Bros. calls first China auction a “big success”

More than 1,000 people attended Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers first unreserved public auction in China with more than 500 registering to bid. Bidders represented more than 30 countries. Ritchie Bros. says the crowd was mainly made up of local equipment end users from Beijing and the surrounding Hebei province. However, overseas bidders—those from the U.S., United […]

April 24, 2013