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Manheim invests heavily in its Sydney operations

  • Written by Mathew McAuley



As one of Australia’s largest automotive and industrial auctioneers, Manheim has been operating out of their Moorebank property since 1994.

 

Since that time the company has been leasing the premises however as a sign of their continued investment in the Australian marketplace, the firm has just completed the purchase of the land and buildings at 144 Moorebank Avenue, Moorebank.

 

Manheim provides auctioneering and logistics services for a wide variety of customers across the state. With a growing number of vehicles, trucks, machinery and other assets being auctioned to increasingly larger crowds every week, the company has moved to secure their future at the Moorebank site in order to cater for the increased business demand.

 

Campbell Jones, CEO of Manheim said, “The purchase of the 35,000sqm site at Moorebank reflects the success of our business and our commitment to our operations in Sydney. The purchase gives us certainty in our tenancy and will allow us to invest in upgrading our facility with a strategic, long term view”.

 

Manheim hold weekly public vehicle auctions offering buyers a wide range of vehicles to choose from, with over 400 cars, 4WD’s and light commercials available at auction each week. Each month Manheim also hold public Truck and Machinery auctions which feature a wide range of stock such as earthmoving equipment, trucks and trailers, buses and farm machinery.

 

Campbell continued, “Backed by the continued investment of our parent company, Cox Automotive, we look forward to a number of site improvements in both the short and the long term now we own the property.”

 

About Manheim

 

Manheim is one of Australia’s leading automotive and industrial auctioneer, with over 55 years of experience in providing a vibrant market place that brings together buyers and sellers of cars, trucks, machinery, and general plant and equipment.

 

Manheim provides a total logistics solution for vehicle remarketing, for a wide variety of clients such as state and local governments, major vehicle manufacturers and importers, fleet lease and rental companies, the insurance industry, financial institutions and corporate sellers. Members of the public are also welcome to use our services, both as buyers and sellers of used vehicles.

 

Globally, Manheim handle approximately 8 million vehicles per annum, facilitating transactions worth over 40 billion dollars. The company is a fully owned subsidiary of Cox Automotive, the world’s largest automotive services company. The operations in Australia are backed by the huge resources of Cox Automotive, who have more than 120 remarketing facilities worldwide and a presence on every continent.

 

 

About Cox Automotive (www.coxautoinc.com)

Cox Automotive, Inc. is transforming the way the world buys, sells and owns cars with industry-leading digital marketing, software, financial, wholesale and e-commerce solutions for consumers, dealers, manufacturers and the overall automotive ecosystem worldwide. Committed to open choice and dedicated to strong partnerships, the Cox Automotive family includes Manheim®, Autotrader®, Kelley Blue Book®, Dealertrack®, vAuto®, Xtime®, NextGear Capital® and a host of other brands.

The global company has nearly 30,000 team members in more than 200 locations worldwide.

Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc., an Atlanta-based company with revenues of more than $17 billion and approximately 55,000 employees. Cox Enterprises' other major operating subsidiaries include Cox Communications and Cox Media Group. For more information about Cox Automotive, visit www.coxautoinc.com.

 

Digital Future Leads Investment Round in Rallyware

  • Written by Yevhenia Dzyuba

Digital Future, a venture investment fund, has announced leading a US $675K Series Seed extension investment round in Rallyware, an intelligent workforce cloud engagement solution. The funding round was also joined by WannaBiz, Seattle-based Lighter Capital, and Nick Bilogorsky, a Silicon Valley angel investor. The company plans to use the new investment on building out its sales and marketing team to expand its growth into new market verticals.

Rallyware is a stand-out example of successful, well-developed technology commercialization,” says Oleksii Vitchenko, CEO of Digital Future. “We have been very excited to verify that the service significantly improves engagement, productivity, and retention in enterprises facing the challenges of onboarding and training their large workforces. Rallyware has shown great growth potential to date, and I am really looking forward to seeing the team further realize its development perspectives for the company in the US and beyond.”

Rallyware plans to continue implementing its vision of becoming a go-to technology platform for any companies that can benefit from engaging their distributed workforces. With 28 employees across their San Francisco and Los Angeles (CA), San Antonio (TX), Salt Lake City (UT), Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Kharkiv (Ukraine) offices, the company has already doubled its revenues since last year and was able to attract such market-leading customers as Samsung Electronics, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Market America, and many others. Part of the proceeds of the round will go to expanding the offering for the existing customers as well as attracting the new ones.



George Elfond, CEO of Rallyware:
“Nowadays, many companies are changing their approach to work and personnel management. More and more employees are working remotely without being tied to a specific place and time. Classic engagement and motivation system are based on the presence of the supervisor who controls the work of their subordinates. In today's world, this approach is no longer viable. Based on the principles of motivation in social projects, we offer an enterprise solution that helps motivate, retain and continuously maintain the interest of staff in any workflow capacity, improving the quality and effectiveness of their work.”

Rallyware was initially designed to engage and motivate groups of people in non-profit social and political projects and has quickly grown to include many other commercial markets and use cases. The many examples of such markets include direct selling companies, sales organizations, membership networks, associations, volunteers for social and political campaigns, and others.

"Rallyware has a constant progress, they are good in b2b-sales and have several strong advisers," - says Artem Borodatyuk, Partner of WannaBiz, who met George during a visit to Silicon Valley. "There is also an important fact that the competence of all the founders of WannaBiz may be useful to Rallyware. As a marketing professional with a profound knowledge in the online and digital marketing areas, I see an opportunity to help the project with our expertise", adds Alex Bornyakov, Managing Partner of WannaBiz.

BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital: "Rallyware is addressing a very important and growing pain point of engaging distributed workforces for many enterprises. I have been following them since I first met George in 2014. The company has impressive revenue growth and the team has been incredibly disciplined about building a fundamentally strong high-growth business. We are very pleased to become a part of this exciting journey with them."

Digital Future has been quite active in 2016 and has invested in 9 companies this year. Early this month, the company invested US$1,7million in Attendify, a SaaS-based event platform. Early this year, Digital Future participated in a US$1 million funding round in tutoring platform Preply. Previously, it co-invested with others in a US$13,1 million funding round in YouAppi, which offers a mobile media buying platform.

 

About Digital Future

Digital Future is a venture investment company with a focus on AdTech, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, eCommerce, IT Security domains. The company invests in the businesses from Central and Eastern Europe, primarily at a seed stage. Besides financing, Digital Future shares its networking, technical and marketing capabilities with its portfolio companies to facilitate scaling and penetration into global markets. For more information, visit www.digital-future.org/en/

About Rallyware

Rallyware is an intelligent workforce engagement solution. Rallyware first began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the core idea of automating and scaling engagement through technology. Rallyware empowers its customers across the globe, such as Samsung, Mary Kay, and many others, to coach, train, and motivate their people through personalized scalable engagement programs that achieve higher sales, faster employee onboarding, increased participation in corporate initiatives, and other business objectives. For more information, visit http://www.rallyware.com/

About WannaBiz

WannaBiz is an angel seed fund, focused on global projects in ad tech and SaaS with a steady revenue raise. WannaBiz targets seed stage, round A or bridge round startups with Ukrainian founders all over the world (especially: USA, UK, EU). Since all of the founders are involved in ads business, the online ads projects and ad networks have the opportunity to get the most of the expert support. For more information, visit wannabiz.com.ua

About Lighter Capital

Lighter Capital is an online revenue-based lender providing technology companies up from $50,000 to $2 million in growth funding. Using proprietary technology, Lighter Capital streamlines the loan process for entrepreneurs so they can stay focused on running their business and get the funding they need in 2 to 4 weeks. Based in Seattle, Lighter Capital works with companies across the US. For more information, visit https://www.lightercapital.com

 

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