Month: May 2020

Ted Cook, a regional sales manager at Entegra Coach, provides a walk-through tour of the manufacturer’s 2021 Aspire motorhome.

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Amid current challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, Q1 financial results from Lippert Components Inc. (LCI) served as a timely reminder of just how good things were going for the RV industry during the opening months of 2020. In Q1 overall, the Northern Indiana-based supplier delivered double-digit sales growth and year-over-year growth in adjacent markets […]

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Elkhart, Ind.-based Forest River Inc. has introduced its brand-new lightweight towable line, IBEX, which debuts this month – just in time for the summer camping season, the company announced in a release. The IBEX lineup will feature eight floorplans: four are 7 feet wide and weigh in at less than 5,000 pounds, while four are […]

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Roadtrippers, one of the world’s leading road trip planning platforms, has released several data points surrounding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on road-based trip planning activity, the most recent of which strongly suggests a pent-up demand to go camping is about to be unleashed. The volume of trips planned on Roadtrippers.com the week of […]

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After a successful launch of the original Bushwhacker product at the RVX Show in March, followed by the equally successful introduction of the Bushwhacker Plus brand at the RV Open House in September, Braxton Creek’s management announced an aggressive expansion of the Bushwhacker family of products, and indicated that the market should expect even more […]

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Germany-based RV manufacturer Knaus Tabbert GmbH resumed production in its Jandelsbrunn and Mottgers plants this Monday (May 4) after a shutdown of several weeks, the company announced in a release. “This is a pleasing step towards normality, which was only possible because important suppliers in the region were also able to resume production and we […]

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For some park owners the wait to reopen ended this past weekend with states such as South Carolina and Pennsylvania allowing private parks to reopen their doors to campers. Throughout the country state and local officials are evaluating stay at home orders to slowly reopen their economies. For the campground owners that are being allowed […]

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday (May 5) has updated the state’s business restrictions to permit the use of RVs as a secondary residence, the Michigan Association of RVs and Campgrounds (MARVAC) announced. “While this currently only applies for seasonal camping and not recreational or rental camping, it is a step in the right direction. […]

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ELKHART, Ind.-based Arterra Distribution recently donated 1,000 KN95 masks to Goshen Hospital. “We know how difficult all frontline workers are working right now. They’re sacrificing so much to help in this time of need. Unfortunately, there are many hospitals facing shortages of the necessary PPE equipment. So, when we acquired KN95 masks we knew that […]

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As campgrounds around the country begin to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, many in the RV park and campground sectors have questions about how they should move forward. From a marketing and operations standpoint, the coronavirus crisis has offered up new challenges, meaning campground owners are having to find ways to adapt to a new […]

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