WWA Group Inc. is a company that trades and auctions transportation and industrial equipment worldwide. Through their wholly owned subsidiary, World Wide Auctioneers, Ltd. (WWA), they are one of the largest auctioneers of heavy equipment in the world. They focus their operations on under-served regions outside of North America. Founded in 1996, their corporate headquarters for the United States is in Tempe, Arizona. They also have a corporate office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

WWA auctions items that include mobile, stationary, earthmoving, and construction equipment. These include crawler tractors, excavators, wheel loaders, cranes, trucks and trailers, generators, compressors, agricultural tractors, and forklifts. WWA Group Inc. also sells light vehicles and related items, including boats and motorcycles. The company also owns and charters a shipping vessel called the M/V Iron Butterfly.

WWA Group Inc. has a market share of more than 65 percent of all industrial equipment auction sales concluded in

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World Wide Auctioneers Group Inc (WWAG.OB) engages in the trading and auctioning of transportation and industrial equipment worldwide. WWA holds fully unreserved auctions mainly for consigned equipment, with no minimum bids, seller bids, or reserve prices, assuring buyers and sellers that their equipment is traded at fair market value. A list of auctioned items by the company includes mobile and stationary earthmoving and construction equipment, such as crawler tractors, excavators, wheel loaders, cranes, trucks and trailers, generators, compressors, agricultural tractors, and forklifts.

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