Company: HGBL
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-038691
Chunk: 57

Company: Heritage Global Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 57
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Overview and History

We are an asset services company specializing in financial and industrial asset transactions. We provide a full suite of services including market making, acquisitions, refurbishment, dispositions, valuations and secured lending. We focus on identifying, valuing, acquiring and monetizing underlying tangible assets across more than twenty-five global sectors. We act as an advisor as well as a principal, acquiring or brokering turnkey manufacturing facilities, surplus industrial machinery and equipment, industrial inventories, and charged-off receivable portfolios.

Our operations are organized into two divisions, Industrial Assets and Financial Assets. Within these two divisions, we group our business activities into the following four operating segments to manage performance:

Industrial Assets Division

•Auction and Liquidation – Through our subsidiary Heritage Global Partners, Inc. (“HGP”), we operate a global full-service auction, appraisal and asset advisory firm, including the acquisition of turnkey manufacturing facilities and used industrial machinery and equipment.

•Refurbishment & Resale – Through our subsidiary Heritage ALT LLC (“ALT”), we acquire, refurbish and supply specialized laboratory equipment. 

Financial Assets Division

•Brokerage – Through our subsidiary National Loan Exchange, Inc. (“NLEX”), we broker charged-off receivables in the United States and Canada on behalf of lenders including banks, mortgage companies, and auto and alternative lending sources.

•Specialty Lending – Through our subsidiary Heritage Global Capital LLC (“HGC”), we provide specialty financing solutions to investors in charged-off and nonperforming asset portfolios. 

Corporate Information

HG was incorporated in Florida in 1983 under the name “MedCross, Inc.” Our name was changed to “I-Link Incorporated” in 1997, to “Acceris Communications Inc.” in 2003, to “C2 Global Technologies Inc.” in 2005, to “Counsel RB Capital Inc.” in 2011, and to Heritage Global Inc. in 2013. The most recent name change more closely identifies HG with its auction and liquidation and specialty lending segments.

Our corporate headquarters are located at 12625 High Bluff Drive, Suite 305, San Diego, CA 92130. Our telephone number is (858) 847-0659 and our corporate website is www.hginc.com.

The organization chart below outlines our basic domestic corporate structure as of December 31, 2024.

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