Copart, Inc. (NASDAQ:CPRT), a leading online vehicle auction, today
announced the opening of a new facility in Homestead, Florida. This
latest addition to Copart’s growing footprint marks the company’s 13th
facility in Florida and the 153rd facility world-wide.
Copart CEO Jay Adair said the 29-acre site will serve the busy southern
tip of Florida. The additional location in South Florida also increases
Copart’s capacity to process vehicles damaged during hurricanes and
other disasters.
"This new facility allows us to be closer to vehicles so we can pick
them up faster and reduce towing costs,” Adair said. "With the
additional capacity this facility offers, Copart continues to provide
legendary service to our sellers and members – even in catastrophe
situations.”
Copart, founded in 1982, provides vehicle sellers with a full range of
services to process and sell salvage and clean title vehicles. Copart
sells the vehicles online using its proprietary VB2
technology to members who register at www.copart.com.
Becoming a member is free and anyone can search for and view more than
50,000 vehicles each day at www.copart.com.
Copart sells vehicles on behalf of insurance companies, banks, finance
companies, fleet operators, dealers, car dealerships, the general
public, and others. The company currently operates 137 facilities in
North America and 16 facilities in the United Kingdom. Salvage vehicles
are either damaged vehicles deemed a total loss for insurance or
business purposes or are recovered stolen vehicles for which an
insurance settlement with the vehicle owner has already been made.
For more information about selling or buying a car at Copart, go to www.copart.com.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS:
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of federal securities laws, including statements regarding our
expectations with respect to certain anticipated benefits to our
customers related to the opening of our new facility such as potential
decreases in cycle times and reductions in certain costs. These
forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks, trends and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those projected or implied by our statements and comments. For a more
complete discussion of the risks that could affect our business, please
review the "management's discussion and analysis” and the other risks
identified in Copart’s latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K, as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. We encourage investors to review
these disclosures carefully. We do not undertake to update any
forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time on our
behalf.
