PLEASANTON, Calif. – June 10, 2014 – IronPlanet®, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment, today announced a licensing agreement with BiddingAce, a new online marketplace for general aviation aircraft. Under the agreement, BiddingAce uses IronPlanet technology to power its e-commerce marketplace.

“IronPlanet is excited to extend our best-of-breed online marketplace model to new industries,” said Greg Owens, CEO, IronPlanet. “The IronPlanet platform is ideally suited for industry-specific marketplaces such as general aviation, and with the combination of BiddingAce expertise, it will provide an important service to aviation enthusiasts worldwide.”

IronPlanet®, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment, today launched allEquip.com, an online, “buy now” marketplace of used construction equipment for sale at competitive prices.

“IronPlanet’s allEquip offers online buyers the convenience of a ‘buy now’ marketplace for the ready-to-work equipment they need now,” said Greg Owens, CEO, IronPlanet. “With a wide selection of equipment, buyers can purchase equipment online today and every day at competitive prices with confidence knowing the equipment was inspected and guaranteed. We are committed to making the buying and selling of equipment faster and easier. The allEquip ‘buy now’ marketplace gives sellers another option to sell their equipment in addition to IronPlanet’s auctions - both having access to IronPlanet’s global buyer base of over one million potential buyers."

PLEASANTON, Calif. – May 16, 2014 – IronPlanet®, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment, today announced a partnership with VeriTread, an online heavy-haul transportation marketplace, to provide IronPlanet customers with the industry’s most reliable and cost-effective shipping services.

“We are excited to partner with VeriTread to give our customers access to best-in-class prequalified transportation services,” said Greg Owens, CEO, IronPlanet. “Our partnership with VeriTread is another example of our ongoing commitment to providing our customers with innovative solutions that simplify the process of buying used equipment.”

PLEASANTON, Calif. – May 9, 2014 – TruckPlanet, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling used commercial trucks, celebrates the one-year anniversary of its first online auction this week.

“We are excited to celebrate the success of our first year, and we are pleased with how the market has enthusiastically received TruckPlanet,” said Randy Berry, president of TruckPlanet. “Our weekly online auctions give truck sellers faster time to cash and provide buyers with regular access to our strong commercial truck inventory. TruckPlanet’s online marketplace is more efficient and cost-effective than traditional auctions, and our guaranteed inspection reports allow buyers to purchase with confidence.”

TruckPlanet^®, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling used commercial trucks, will host an auction on Friday, April 25 featuring more than 150 trucks from the U.S.

Items are now available for preview and include day cabs, sleeper cabs, cargo trucks and vans, refrigerated trucks and more. Makes include Freightliner, Sterling, International and others.

Who: TruckPlanet, the leading online marketplace for used commercial trucks

IronPlanet®, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment, today announced it is the apparent high bidder pending final confirmation and award for a contract with the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to manage and sell rolling stock surplus assets of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) (Surplus Contract). Bids for the Surplus Contract were based on a percentage of the sales price of the items, which IronPlanet estimates at $50-70 million of rolling stock annually. IronPlanet’s high bid was equal to 75.29 percent revenue share to the DLA. The Surplus Contract has a base term of two years with four one-year renewal options.

If you had a chance to attend the 2014 CONEXPO-CON/AGG show, you know that it was a busy and exciting display of the latest construction equipment, products and services. At the IronPlanet booth, CEO Greg Owens highlighted some of our top milestones of the last 12 months, including:

• Surpassing one million registered users and how this validates IronPlanet’s online model for buying and selling used equipment
• IronPlanet’s partnership with Mascus and how customers that list their equipment on Mascus can now move their equipment to auction on IronPlanet with the click of a mouse

IronPlanet will celebrate the 14^th anniversary of its first auction this week (download the infographic for a comparison of auctions over the past 14 years).

“We’re excited to celebrate 14 years of growth since our first online auction,” said Greg Owens, CEO, IronPlanet. “We have attracted more than one million registered users around the globe and sold more than $3.5 billion of equipment over the Internet. Our success is based on our customers’ recognition that IronPlanet offers the industry’s most efficient and timely way to buy and sell used heavy equipment.”

IronPlanet held its first online auction March 23, 2000 which consisted of one seller, 32 bidders and 22 items within the construction industry. This year, IronPlanet held a four-day online auction that featured 406 sellers, 2,996 unique bidders from 78 countries and 1,795 items sold.

Held every three years, CONEXPO-CON/AGG is the construction industry’s largest and most anticipated event. We’re excited to exhibit at this year’s show, taking place March 4-8 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The show attracts 2,400 exhibitors highlighting products and services for every imaginable construction industry niche, including mining, aggregate, concrete, lifting, asphalt, earthmoving, utilities and more. More than 125,000 attendees are expected to attend this year’s event.

During the five-day exhibition, we invite visitors to stop by booth 40064 to learn how we make used equipment buying and selling efficient and convenient. With a worldwide audience, auctions every week and a daily marketplace, we’ll show you how to turn your equipment into cash in just 30 days. We also help sellers dispose of their fleets without moving equipment from their yard to reduce shipping costs.

IronPlanet®, an online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment, today announced it has surpassed 1 million users who have registered to view equipment for sale and participate in online auctions at IronPlanet.com (see infographic here).

“This is an exciting milestone for us because it demonstrates that more than 1 million users recognize IronPlanet as a trusted marketplace for buying and selling equipment,” said Greg Owens, CEO, IronPlanet. “We’ve attracted these users because of our ongoing dedication to innovation, customer service and delivering what they need: a convenient and reliable equipment solution.”

Founded in 1999, IronPlanet held its first auction March 23, 2000. By September 2009, the marketplace had attracted half a million users. Demonstrating the strong global interest in the IronPlanet online model as a tool for buying and selling, it took just over four years to add another 500,000 users. Today, IronPlanet has registered users in nearly every country and has sold more than $3.5 billion of used heavy equipment.