Avanti Products, 10880 NW 30th Street, Doral,  Miami, Florida 33172 (2014)

Still an active company in 2014, see avantiproducts.com

Consumer appliances.

Avanti was a division of The Mackle Company, Inc. from 1986 - 2012.

Excerpt grom the website of The Mackle Company:

"In 1982, The Mackle Company purchased a small distribution business, Avanti Products from founder, Al Cortina.

The Mackle Company provided financial resources for Avanti and supplemented Avanti with business talent that were to be important to its growth. With Al Cortina continuing to head Avanti, Richard Ladd was brought in from Price Waterhouse as his number two man.

Over the next few years, the company focused it's attention on Avanti Products and by 1993 Avanti had become the primary business of The Mackle Company.

By 2012 Avanti had become the largest pure distributor of refrigeration appliances in the U.S. The company purchases product made primarily in China. Avanti sells to retailers in the U.S. but also in the Caribbean and Latin America. Retailers supplied by Avanti have included Walmart, Brandsmart, K-Mart, P.C. Richards, Conns, The Beverage Factory and over three hundred others. Avanti products are sold in more than 7,000 stores throughout the United States.

Product lines include Compact Refrigerators, Apartment Sized Refrigerators, Beer Coolers, Wine Coolers, Freezers, Ice Makers, Electric and Gas Ranges, Microwave Ovens, Small Electric Ovens, Washers and Dryers and Water Dispensers.

Over the years Avanti product has been sourced from Japan, Korea, Turkey, Italy and the Republic of China. Avanti Products was one of the first companies of it's kind to source it's products from China, with first shipments as early as 1989. By 2012 Avanti was developing and purchasing product from over a dozen factories in the Republic of China.

Avanti is headquartered in the Doral area of West Miami where it occupies an office/warehouse which serves as its southern distribution center.

Under the umbrella of the Mackle Company and with its outstanding leadership of Richard Ladd and Bill Quarles as well as Juan Aroix, Senior Vice President Product Development and Engineering, Avanti revenues grew five-fold from 1982 to 2012 and profitability increased four-fold.

After twenty two straight years of profitability and thirty out of thirty one years in the black, after solid performances through the worst of the financial crisis when Avanti not only avoided any lay offs but actually added to its staff, with an improving M&A market, with a banner 2012 and with a thought to best interests of future Mackle generations, it was decided to move forward with an offering for the sale of Avanti Products.

In November 2012 controlling interest in Avanti Products was sold to a group headed by GenCap America of Nashville, Tennessee. The Mackle Company continues to own a minority interest in this growing business."