Month: June 2012

(June 7, 2012) -- Navistar International Corporation today announced a management realignment designed to give further momentum to its strategy of great products, competitive cost and profitable growth. The company also released second quarter results reporting a loss of $172 million, or $2.50 per diluted share.

(June 7, 2012) -- Winnebago Industries plans to issue an advisory release before the market opens on June 14, 2012 notifying the public that a complete and full-text press release discussing the financial results for the Company's third quarter of Fiscal 2012 ended May 26, 2012 will be available no earlier than 6 a.m. Central Time. The Company will also host a conference call on June 14, 2012 at 9 a.m. Central Time (CT) to discuss the financial results for its third quarter of Fiscal 2012.

(June 7, 2012) -- The Florida RV Trade Association (FRVTA) will hold the space drawing for the 2013 Florida RV SuperShow Aug. 7 through 9, the association announced today. Each manufacturer that has returned a contract with a deposit will be called during the drawing to pick a space in the show. The “grandfathered drawing order” will determine the order in which space is selected.

(June 7, 2012) -- Three more mobile websites built by TXAD Internet Services have gone live and have already attracted thousands of visitors in a few short weeks, the company announced today. Those sites include I-35 RV Park in Waco, Texas; San Jacinto Riverfront RV Resort in Highlands, Texas; and Braunig Lake RV Resort in San Antonio, Texas.

(June 7, 2012) -- This week's recipe is for cranberry salad dessert. Stephanie from Mesquite, Texas, submitted this recipe. She said she grew up RVing and now she and her husband enjoy RVing with their two young daughters.

(June 7, 2012) -- “The festival attracts more and more people every year,” said Dominic Pugliese, property manager at Thousand Trails Ponderosa RV Resort and Campground, which is located just a few miles from the festival. “It’s quite an event. Our campground is so close we can hear the music throughout the day.”

(June 7, 2012) -- Winnebago Industries, Inc., manufacturer of Winnebago, Itasca and ERA brand motorhomes, recognized Campers Inn of Merrimack, N.H., as Top 20 Winnebago brand dealer for 2012. To be recognized with that sales honor, Campers Inn was among the Top 20 dealers across the United States and Canada in motorhome sales.

(June 6, 2012) -- We've all been on one of those websites: the load time is painfully slow, it looks like a five-year-old designed the entire thing, and when it comes to finding even the most basic facts, like contact information, it becomes a time-consuming and frustrating scavenger hunt. Just like dealers guide each customer who walks through their door to the place they need to be -- either to a knowledgeable sales staff member, the accessories department or the repair shop -- their website also needs to easily and painlessly guide each customer to the information they're seeking. Here are 9 tips to ensure your company's website is running at peak efficiency.

(June 6, 2012) -- Sales of recreational park trailers to RV parks offering them as rental units have grown in the past 4 years and have been a godsend for recreational park trailer manufacturers and dealers, and for park owners, Garpow said. Rental and occupancy rates for campsites with park models are higher and usually four or five times more revenue-producing than campsites without. “People who stay at the campgrounds in recreational park trailer rental units don’t usually own an RV,” he explained. “But they fall in love with the RV lifestyle. They enjoy the feeling of being part of a group in a campground, and who can resist the pure enjoyment of an after-sunset campfire social get-together?”

(June 6, 2012) -- Maracay Homes has created a subdivision entirely for people who like to play with really big toys. Little Dealer Little Prices will have RVs on display during a weekend open house event. The oversized homes, which range in price from $180,000 to $350,000, come in nine different floorplans with four types of accessory building options that can accommodate everything from ATVs and boats to Class A motorhomes in a garage with a 19-foot ceiling.