About Wingate Sales Solutions

A Century of Proven Retail Liquidation Experience

Wingate Sales Solutions is the leading retail store liquidation company in North America. Since 1916, we have helped independent retail owners close stores, transition businesses, and stimulate sales with professionalism, control, and dignity. Over more than a century of continuous family ownership, we have planned and executed more than 35,000 store closing, retirement, going out of business, quitting business, and high‑impact promotional sales across the United States and Canada.

About Wingate Sales Solutions

A Family Business Since 1916

Wingate Sales Solutions was founded in 1916 by C. C. Brooker, a department store manager who was asked to oversee a going out of business sale for the store’s retiring owner. That sale exceeded expectations. Other store owners soon requested the same help. From that moment, retail liquidation became a profession rather than a last‑ditch event.

Four generations of the same family have led the company:

  • C. C. Brooker, Founder (1916)
  • Paul K. Brooker, Second Generation
  • Diane Brooker Wingate and Garold Wingate, Third Generation
  • Tim Wingate and Mike Wingate, Fourth Generation

This continuity matters. It means Wingate’s methods were developed, tested, refined, and preserved through economic booms, recessions, the Great Depression, World War II, inflationary cycles, and modern retail disruption. The company did not appear during a downturn — it survived every one.

Maximized Returns

What Wingate Does

Our role is to design and conduct in‑store liquidation and promotional sales that convert inventory, fixtures, and equipment into the highest possible cash return through retail pricing, disciplined markdowns, and sustained customer traffic.

Our work is grounded in one principle: independent retailers deserve a better outcome than auctions, bulk buyers, or self‑conducted liquidation attempts can provide. Every Wingate engagement is designed to maximize recovery while preserving the owner’s reputation, customer relationships, and control of their business.

Wingate Sales Solutions traces its roots to 1916 and has operated continuously through:

  • The Great Depression
  • Multiple economic recessions
  • Retail consolidation waves
  • E-commerce disruption
  • The COVID-19 quarantine
  • Tariff pressures

This experience is not theoretical. It is operational. Wingate has conducted tens of thousands of retail store liquidations across virtually every retail category in North America.

We Don’t Buy

What We Don’t Do

Wingate Sales Solutions is a professional sales consulting and execution firm.

  • We do not buy inventory.
  • We do not run auctions.
  • We do not warehouse merchandise.
  • We do not sell bulk lots.
  • We do not work with ecommerce‑only businesses.

Experience matters because liquidation is retailing at warp speed. Mistakes compound quickly. Timing errors destroy margin. Inexperienced liquidators run out of solutions when sales slow. Wingate does not.

Retail Clarity

Our Mission

Wingate Sales Solutions exists to help retail owners:

  • Convert inventory, fixtures, and equipment into maximum cash
  • Stimulate business when capital is constrained or inventory is unbalanced
  • Exit a retail business with control, clarity, and dignity

We provide effective, ethical, and cost‑efficient retail liquidation and asset disposition services tailored to each store’s inventory, market, season, and objectives.

Independent Retailers

Who We Serve

Wingate specializes in independent retailers — single‑store owners and small multi‑location operators. These businesses behave very differently than chain stores, and liquidation methods that work for chains often fail independents.

Our clients include owners of:

  • Hardware and building supply stores
  • Gift, card, and Hallmark stores
  • Clothing and apparel stores
  • Sporting goods and outdoor retailers
  • Jewelry, specialty, and legacy retail businesses
Field Experts

Our Consultants

Wingate consultants are not temporary staff or commissioned sales crews. Every consultant: has owned or managed retail stores, has extensive, hands‑on liquidation experience, works on site throughout the sale, focuses exclusively on the client’s store. Many Wingate consultants have 20 to 30 years of field experience conducting store closing and promotional sales. They are planners, merchandisers, advertisers, and problem solvers who understand how independent retail actually works.

Wingate Sales Solutions

Leadership Team

Mike Wingate
Mike manages company finances and operational oversight. He also served in the field as a consultant before joining the management team.
Mike Wingate
Tim Wingate
Tim oversees pre‑showing mailings and advertising strategy, blending store customer lists with advanced geographic and demographic targeting to drive early traffic and strong opening volume.
Tim Wingate

Request a Confidential Consultation

(888) 480-SALE
P.O. Box 48294
Wichita, KS 67201-8294
mike@wingatesalesinc.com
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We Can Help

If you are considering closing a store or evaluating liquidation as an option, start with a private, no-obligation conversation. There is no pressure, no commitment, and no cost to understand your options.

Request a FREE consultation. All information is confidential and tailored to your store.

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