please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . january 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources manheim auctions news newspapers books scholar jstor free images january 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs to be updated . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . january 2013 this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . november 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message manheim inc. type subsidiary of cox automotive industry automotive founded 1945 1945 mm headquarters atlanta georgia number of locations 145 parent cox enterprises website www.manheim.com manheim inc. is an automobile auction company and the world s largest wholesale auto auction based on trade volume with 145 auctions located in north america europe asia and australia . as a subsidiary of privately owned cox enterprises inc. based in atlanta georgia manheim s primary business is wholesaling vehicles via a bidding process that can done in traditional or online formats . manheim also provides other vital dealership and wholesale services such as financing title work transportation auto hauling recovery auto body repair dealership management systems dent repair and automotive reconditioning and automotive re marketing at each location . 1 contents 1 history 1.1 the beginning 1.2 manheim joins cox enterprises 1.3 notable acquisitions 2 references 3 external links history edit the beginning edit in 1945 benjamin z. mellinger a ford dealer in new holland pennsylvania and arthur f. walters a firestone tire dealer in manheim met to discuss the idea of auctioning cars after watching a farm equipment auction . they with jacob jack h. ruhl paul h. stern and robert schreiber formed a partnership each contributing 5000 and then purchased a decrepit building along with its seven acres just south of manheim to form the manheim auto auction inc. . their first sale ran three cars and sold just one to the general public . 2 by 1947 the new building with four lanes to auction vehicles opened and soon the partners realized the general public was purchasing their vehicles at the auction instead of their dealership franchises . this action prompted the partners to make manheim auto auction a dealer only enterprise making manheim the largest auto exchange in 1959 . 3 by 1966 manheim auto auction established itself as the world s volume leader selling off 45 vehicles per hour or 700 cars trucks on a given friday night at the 16 laned auction . adding closed circuit television the dealers and wholesalers watched the auction from the new cafeteria in its expanded building . in 1965 manheim auto auction purchased the national auto dealers exchange in bordentown new jersey and then in 1967 it purchased the fredericksburg auto exchange in fredericksburg virginia . thus the partners made manheim attractive for a potential buyer . 4 manheim joins cox enterprises edit cox enterprises entered the auto auction business in 1968 when it purchased manheim auto auction in manheim pennsylvania . 5 under cox manheim continued to expand by providing vital services such as reconditioning recovery and auto hauling to both dealership and wholesalers . by the end of the 20th century the manheim auto auctions had advanced its sales by adding information technology online sales . today cox enterprises owns 98 % of auto trader one of the world s leading providers of online and print automotive consumer information . 6 notable acquisitions edit manheim acquired dent wizard the paintless dent removal company also known as pdr in 1998 . after turning it into the largest pdr company in the world manheim sold dent wizard s united states and canada markets to h.i.g. capital a leading global private equity firm in november 2010 . in 2006 manheim became interested in akinvest inc. 1 this canadian company started off as a business that speculated on world automobile values in 1991 . owners andrei kouznetsov and dwight grovum developed a new concept that allowed a foreign dealer to have akinvest perform all of the necessary procedures to have vehicles delivered to the port nearest to that buyer . by 2005 akinvest doing business as exporttrader was completely developed the service aspects of the business that assisted non north american dealers . company became known as the leader in the export of used cars field from north america . all of the major remarketing companies such as copart iaa adesa carfax and manheim had foreign transactions that were completed by akinvest exporttrader . the strength of the procedures used were enhanced by superior programming and automated web sites retaining enormous banks of data . export trader akinvest negotiated for new export programs and procedures with the governments of canada and united states and was consulted numerous times by international law enforcement on global irregularities . exporttrader was consulted by marketing firms and journals like the wall street journal 2 to give opinions on global automotive trade and were asked to speak at international conferences . in 2008 akinvest export trader had 70 employees with offices in toronto moscow and finland . akinvest is the parent company of two of the leading players in the export business freightmar international and exporttrader.com . freightmar a registered non vessel operating common carrier nvocc the agreement was signed in january 2009 for a staged buyout of akinvest export trader transforming the entire organization under name wes exporttrader . the final stage of the transfer to manheim occurred in late 2014 . subsequently in april 2015 manheim has closed the canadian offices of wes exporttrader and moved the operation to atlanta . they now run all new global trader out of atlanta . in february manheim global export was sold end of march 2016 manheim global export was sold but it was too many debts and company was declared as the bankrupt . references edit https www.manheim.com about retrieved google 13 feb. 2016 the beginnings of two auto auctions wally koster ; retrieved google 13 feb. 2016 koster koster koster automotive news jan 3 2014 . external links edit official website auto mechanic jobs with manheim manheim in export venture by autonews http press.manheim.com 2009 04 02 manheim enters joint venture with leading vehicle exporter akinvest v t e cox enterprises daily newspapers the atlanta journal constitution austin american statesman dayton daily news journal news the palm beach daily news the palm beach post the springfield news sun weekly newspapers active dayton today s pulse cox radio kcyy kglk khpt kiss fm kjsr kkbq kkyx kono kono fm krav fm krmg krmg fm ksmg ktht ktkx kwen walr fm wape fm wbab wbli wcfb wdbo wdbo fm wduv wedr wezi wfez wflc wgau wgmg whfm whio whio fm whko whpt whqt wjgl wmmo wngc wokv wokv fm wpoi wpup wpyo wrfc wsb wsb fm wsbb fm wsrv wsun wwka wwrm wxgl wxkt wxxj wzlr cox television abc affiliates wftv wsb tv wsoc tv cbs affiliates kiro tv whio tv wjax tv 1 fox affiliates koki tv wfox tv wfxt whbq tv independent stations waxn tv wrdq mynetworktv affiliates kmyt tv wfox dt2 2 nbc affiliate wpxi cable channels 4sd cox sports television the cox channel cox target media savings.com valpak cox automotive alliance inspection management autost autotrader.com 98 % kelley blue book bitauto central dispatch dealer auction.com dealer.com dealertrack deal shield home net automotive incadea jingzhengu mahindra s first choice manheim auctions motors.co.uk nextgear capital ready logistics rms automotive vauto vinsolutions xtime other assets cox communications kudzu.com 1 cox media group operates this station under an lma with bayshore television llc . 2 this subchannel holds a secondary affiliation with me tv . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title manheim auctions & oldid 743515111 categories american auction houses1945 establishments in pennsylvaniacompanies based in lancaster county pennsylvaniacompanies based in atlantacox enterprisesamerican companies established in 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