Liquidation World

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Liquidation World Inc.

Type	Surplus store/Public (TSX: LQW)
Founded	Calgary, Alberta, Canada (October 1986)
Headquarters	Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Key people	Dale Gillespie, Founder Jonathan Hill, President & CEO Darren Gillespie, Senior Executive Vice President and President LQW Traders Inc.
Industry	Retail
Products	Furniture, Paint, Food, Luggage, Clothing, Housewares, Sporting Goods, Hardware and Health & Beauty
Website	www.liquidationworld.com

Liquidation World Inc. (TSX: LQW) liquidates consumer merchandise through 106 outlets across Canada and also provides store-closure sales management. It solves asset recovery problems in a professional manner for the financial services industry, insurance companies, manufacturers and other organizations.

Liquidation World opened its first retail outlet in 1986 and is now the largest liquidator in Canada, with more than 2,000 employees in outlets and offices across Canada.

The chain has stores in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Yukon Territory. ^[1]

On September 7, 2007, Liquidation World announced it will be closing its U.S. operations in at the end of October.^[2] Despite the closures three locations in Washington State - Spokane, Richland and Renton, have remained opened for liquidation sales.