Month: October 2016

For the second straight month Class B motorhome sales soared, showing a 26.6% gain for August while growing 13.6% gain year-to-date. According to the latest report from Statistical Surveys Inc. (SSI), Winnebago Industries Inc. was the top-selling manufacturer for the eight months with a 35.2% share of the Class B market, followed by Erwin Hymer Group North America (28.7%), Thor Industries Inc. […]

About 100 dealer representatives attended Northwood Manufacturing Inc.’s annual dealer meeting Tuesday (Oct. 4) and Wednesday at Wild Horse Casino in Pendleton, Ore. ”We introduced five brand new floorplans,” said Donald Cochran, director of sales for the La Grande, Ore., towable and truck camper manufacturer. Among the new layouts was a prototype of a three-slide Arctic […]

Nappanee, Ind.-based Aluminum Trailer Co. is getting ready to expand in 2017, adding 38 jobs by 2018. As reported by the Elkhart Truth, the company is set to invest more than $5 million in a new facility. The Nappanee City Council approved on first reading a 10-year tax abatement to help the company expand into the new 110,000-square-foot […]

Let other businesses obsess over millennials. Being a Gen Xer, even a Baby Boomer, is OK in the book of one of the Chicago area’s newest publicly traded companies. The Chicago Tribune reported that the Lincolnshire, Ill.-based recreational vehicle retailer Camping World Holdings Inc., headed by CNBC reality-show entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis, just raised about $250 million […]

(Oct. 7, 2016) -- Camping World Holdings completed its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange today with closing prices 42 cents above the initial purchase offer price of $22, an increase of 2.27 percent.

(Oct. 7, 2016) -- This week’s guest is Steve Plemmons, the owner of Bill Plemmons RV, a dealership in North Carolina celebrating its 65th year in business. The company was started by Steve’s father, Bill, and now Steve is in the process of handing off control of the dealership to his children, Sterling and Shawna.

(Oct. 7, 2016) -- Due to last-minute notification by the recording vendor that the firm has ceased operations, RVDA will be unable to record education sessions at the 2016 RV Dealers International Convention/Expo, RVDA announced.

The perfect storm of travel woes is hitting just in time for season. Hurricane Matthew is just part of it. As reported by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, hurricane conditions rage, red tide brings a plague of dead fish, concerns over the Zika virus linger and the strength of the U.S. dollar limits purchasing power for some […]

(Oct. 7, 2016) -- Spicer, Minn., Fire Fighter Kelly Hammerschmidt says no one was inside at the time, and it was parked in the driveway of the owner's home. He believes the fire started near the refrigerator and was fully engulfed when fire crews arrived.

(Oct. 7, 2016) — At 3:18 p.m. Thursday afternoon, the Grape Creek Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to an RV park at 8201 Sunflower Ave. for a report of an RV trailer on fire, the San Angelo Live reported.