Live Ventures Incorporated, incorporated on April 25, 1994, is a holding company for diversified businesses. The Company's segments include Manufacturing Segment, Marketplace Platform Segment and Services Segment. The Manufacturing Segment consists of Marquis Industries, Inc. The Marketplace Platform segment consists of livedeal.com and Modern Everyday, Inc. The Services Segment consists of the local exchange carrier billings business and velocity local. The Company operates LiveDeal.com, a real-time deal engine that connects restaurants across the United States and consumers through an online mobile platform. The LiveDeal.com platform focuses on restaurants in cities across the United States.
Manufacturing Segment
Marquis Industries, Inc. is a carpet manufacturer and a manufacturer of yarn products, as well as a reseller of hard surface flooring products. The Company is focused on the residential, commercial and hospitality end-markets. As of September 30, 2016, the Company operated its business through 13 divisions, each specializing in a distinct area of the business, such as Best Buy flooring Source, Marquis Carpet, Best Buy Hard surface, A-O Industries, Omega Pattern Works, Astro Carpet Mills, Artisans Hospitality, Artisans Carpet, Trendsetters Rug, Dalton Carpet Depot, M and M Fibers, Quantum Textiles and B and H Tufters.
The Company's products/services include all forms of carpets to dealers; carpet products to home centers, hard surface products manufactured by third parties to dealers; monofilament nylon, polypropylene and polyethylene yarns for the outdoor turf industry; specialty printed carpet to the entertainment industry (bowling alleys, fund centers, movie theaters, casinos); carpets to commercial and hospitality markets; carpets to carpet distributors, and development stage-printed carpets for educational markets. The Company sells specials and off grade carpet products to dealers, and its extrusion carpet fiber division supplies raw material to Marquis.
Marketplace Platform Segment
The LiveDeal.com provides marketing solutions to restaurants to provide customer awareness and merchant visibility on the Internet. LiveDeal.com is an intuitive interface enabling restaurants to create limited-time offers and publish them immediately, or on a preset schedule that is fully customizable. The LiveDeal.com is a scheduling technology enabling restaurants to choose the days, times and duration of the offers. Modern Everyday, Inc. has both a retail location and a Website presence providing consumers with products that range from kitchen and dining products, apparel and sporting goods to children's toys and beauty products. It also has a software that enables the Company to track products and predict consumer behavior and spending habits.
Services Segment
The Company's Service Segment operates in the market of Internet marketing for small and medium businesses (SMBs). The Company also offers the InstantProfile line of products and services, which primarily consist of directory listing services.
The Company competes with Groupon, LivingSocial, Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, AT&T and Yellow Pages.
325 E Warm Springs Rd Ste 102
The company trades on NASDAQ exchange. The company headquarter is located in Arizona, AZ. The company was established in the 1968.| Ticker | LIVE |
| Long Name | Live Ventures Incorporated |
| Short Name | Live Ventures |