Month: December 2014

A 16-year-old girl’s wish for a trailer large enough to take her eight-member family on camping vacations came true as the Children’s Wish Foundation drove up the family’s driveway with a 32-foot trailer big enough to hold the whole crew. The Cape Breton Post reported that the RV came courtesy of Stone’s RV Centre of […]

Blue Bridge Financial wants to take park model RVs for campgrounds from an underserved lending market to one of the commercial finance company’s key markets. Blue Bridge, which has been around for eight years, is now an affiliate with Carillon Capital LLC, and in that relationship, “We’re bringing Blue Bridge into new industries,” said Ed […]

International distribution of the SylvanSport GO and GO Easy trailers continues to grow, the company reported in a press release. Following a successful first year of European partnership with U.K.-based Valke Outdoor in Somerset, the company announced a partnership in Latin America. Established in 2006 and with extensive experience in the outdoor leisure market, Valke supplies […]

The main attraction at Winnebago Industries Inc.’s exhibit during the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association’s (RVIA) 52nd Annual National RV Trade Show in early December was the Forest City, Iowa-based RV builder’s new retro-style, Brave/Tribute Class A motorhome, one of the more innovative — yet nostalgic — new RVs in the North American marketplace. Like a few […]

Grand Design RV Co. recently received public commendation by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence for expansion and job creation. President and CEO Don Clark, along with three other Indiana-based company CEOs, were invited to stand with Gov. Pence on Dec. 18 during a press conference where the governor recognized 16 Indiana manufacturers that will create 2,100 new jobs for […]

Editor’s Note: The data for October Canadian towable sales in the New Brunswick province was incomplete and are not included in totals. To offer a fair comparison the New Brunswick totals for 2013 have also been removed. Year-over-year Canadian towable sales edged down 1.2% in October and 5.4% for the first 10 months, according to the latest report from Statistical Surveys Inc. Results by segment […]

Lazydays RV announced that David Gatchell has joined its rapidly growing team as Internet sales director.  According to a press release, Gatchell brings more than a decade of sales experience in the automotive industry and will help bolster the online sales department at Lazydays. He and his team of trained Internet sales specialists will oversee […]

Editor’s Note: The following is an article appearing in the Elkhart Truth featuring a Q&A with Jayco Inc.’s Wayne Miller, the company’s longest-serving employee who recently retired. Middlebury, Ind.-based Jayco Inc. has grown into the world’s largest privately held recreational vehicle manufacturer, but it started out of a family farm on C.R. 35. One man, Wayne […]

Campers looking for a Michigan campground, campground events and news, and more can find it all on the Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC) of Michigan’s all new website. The site, www.MichCampgrounds.com, which launched Dec. 19, is highlighted by a campground directory which allows campers to search for a park in Michigan by region-northeast, […]

The Good Sam RV Travel Guide and Campground Directory has announced its list of Top Group Camping RV Parks for 2014, the company reported in a press release. The parks on the list, compiled by the travel guide’s editors and consultants, provide facilities and space for large groups of RVers who camp together and conduct […]