• Nationwide Retailer Network
  • All Restrictions Honored
  • Top D&B Rating
  • Temp-Controlled Warehouse
  • Fair & Honest Negotiation
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Craven Closeouts is your trusted professional partner in leveraging the extensive and expanding secondary marketplace.

A well-established partner
Craven has been in business over 60 years. In an industry where ambitious start-ups come and go, trust Craven as your go-to partner for liquidations, overruns, discontinued items and surplus lots.

a viable and trusted channel for your merchandise

A sterling reputation
We've had 60 years of proven success in using the secondary marketplace as a viable, trusted and lucrative channel for your merchandise. We’ve been awarded a top D&B rating, reflective of our honest, straightforward approach to business and our responsible ethics.

Negotiation with Craven is direct, honest, and fair. We honor your distribution channel restrictions and protect the integrity of your brand. We, like you, take pride in the quality of merchandise we sell and the value we offer. With Craven, the path to the deal is respectful and easy. And our formal contracts as well as our informal promises are as good as our business history–there for the long term.

Unsaleables Solutions
We've been helping manufacturers build successful secondary market solutions for their "unsaleables" for almost 60 years. With the right strategy, the right retail network, and a trusted partner like Craven, there's no such thing as an "unsaleable". (learn more)

Extensive on-site capacity (view our facility)
We're fortunate to operate a large, temperature-controlled warehouse at our headquarters facility near Chicago. We can handle large lots of both temperature-sensitive and temperature-neutral items. All items are showcased to prospective secondary retailers in our on-site showroom, as well as offered to our extensive nationwide retailer network.