About M Davis Group
With over 60 years of experience, M Davis Group possess the skills and savvy that the world’s largest CPG companies rely on to convert their assets to cash. Utilizing a uniquely client specific and AGILE approach to the industry, we employ Showroom, Multi-Location, Online and Live auction sales.
M Davis Group recognize that the auction business, bidding process and needs of our clients are rapidly changing. We were the first to develop, and continue to develop, a wide range of innovative solutions unrivaled in flexibility and results to meet these changes and provide solutions.
M Davis Group leverage decades of invaluable experience and relationships with a vision for tomorrow’s auction industry.
Our Pillars
MDG Auction Showrooms
M Davis Group’s clients sell their equipment from the MDG Auction Showrooms in our monthly and quarterly auctions to maximize recovery of investment in their assets. Upon arrival, M Davis Group immediately gave the equipment the TLC it deserves as all equipment is cleaned, staged and photographed in studio quality lighting. Additionally, when advantageous to the buyers and sellers, M Davis Group refurbish and repair equipment prior to sale. With over 100,000 SQ Ft and abundant secure outdoor space, no project is too large.
Multi-Location Auctions
M Davis Group’s clients utilize our monthly Multi-Location auctions to sell their equipment. Clients consign as few as 1 item to as many as 1,000 items in our Multi-Location auctions. The auctions typically include 20+ sellers across North America and attract an international buying audience. All that is required are photos, asset descriptions, rigging and minimum bid prices. The Multi-Location auctions allow our clients to maximize return for the sale of their equipment while minimizing costs as the equipment is sold in place from their respective locations.
Complete Plant Auctions
M Davis Group are the experts in the field of industrial auctions. We offer a wide range of solutions for our clients to maximize returns while minimizing costs. Whether it be via our Showroom Auctions, Multi-Location Auctions or Complete Plant Auctions; we are the industry standard and consistently deliver exceptional results for our clients. When the world’s largest CPG companies close a plant, they trust M Davis Group to deliver incomparable results selling the entire operation from floor to ceiling and receiving-bay to shipping-dock.
Appraisals
M Davis Group’s licensed appraisers provide appraisal reports and itemized values of your machinery and equipment. MDG are uniquely capable of accurate assessments due to our long history selling industrial assets with a particular focus on CPG markets.
Successful Projects
Elmhurst Dairy:
-M. Davis Group assisted Elmhurst Dairy with the liquidation of their facility in Jamaica, Queens in New York
-The Jamaica Queens plant broke ground in 1925 and was the last fluid milk facility in the city limits of New York
-Provided the plants age and significant commercial developments in the surrounding area, removal was uniquely challenging
Results & Recap: M. Davis Group successfully sold over $2.0 mm of equipment from the facility over the course of a 2-day live auction. The assets included a complete fluid milk operation, delivery truck fleet, & blow molding department. Working with a national crane and rigging company, M. Davis Group completed a complicated rigging and logistics enterprise that included the removal of (10) 40,000 gallon silos via cranes positioned at great distance from the plant. Further, M. Davis Group worked with several logistics companies to manage removal of multiple oversized loads and shipping out of the city limits to buyer’s across the nation. All silos were shipped through busy Manhattan in the middle of the night and over the George Washington Bridge avoiding the oversize load curfew in the city.
Dairy Farmers of America:
-DFA New Wilmington, PA upgraded their facility to a $50mm State of the Art Cheese Producing Floor
-M. Davis Group was responsible for liquidating & removing the existing cheese floor while the new cheese floor was constructed & started up
-Timing & Execution was critical to make things were done in an orderly, safe, & timely manner to meet overall project goals of the corporate engineering team
-This including selling a batch of silos & horizontal tanks during a “Phase I” to remove & have the construction team build a removal ramp for the existing cheese floor removal.
Results & Recap: Not only did M. Davis Group have a successful auction, M. Davis Group also managed a fluid removal project that involved working during a plant “start up” period from 11pm-6am. The plant successfully started up the new cheese floor & M. Davis Group immediately commence removal of the old cheese floor. This included running a scrap project of the assets that were not sold at auction. M. Davis Group worked with multiple removal teams, salvage teams, electrical & mechanical disconnect contractors to make this project a huge success for our client.
Unilever:
-M. Davis Group acquired the equipment & real estate from Unilever in Baltimore, MD. The facility was founded and produced margarine products from 1917-2015.
-following the closure in 2015, M. Davis Group endeavored to quickly clear the building allowing new business to grow in the area
Results & Recap: M. Davis Group successfully sold over $2.5mm worth of equipment from the facility during several phases of auctions. Additionally, M. Davis Group negotiated a sale of the real estate to a local business that utilized the recently emptied space to establish an industrial laundry operation. Managing, all aspects of the sale of equipment, removal, and clean out; we were able successfully facilitated the environment necessary to return of business to the area.
