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The 2018 RVBusiness RV of the Year, as RVIA National RV Trade Show attendees learned this week during a packed first-ever RV Industry Awards event at the Mercury Ballroom in Louisville, Ky., is Winnebago Industries Inc.’s high-end Horizon Class A diesel motorhome with its authentically different modernistic interiors designed by the Iowa manufacturer’s in-house staff […]

After Kampgrounds of America Inc.’s (KOA) senior management team completed its main presentations at the outset of the organization’s International Convention Nov. 15-18 in Phoenix, Ariz., President and CEO Pat Hittmeier and COO Toby O’Rourke paused for an interview in which they shed some light on the impressive year-end report Montana-based KOA issued during the […]

With the 90% of its 500 parks posting gains in 2017, life is good right now for Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA), America’s largest network of private campgrounds. That much was apparent during Thursday’s (Nov. 16) opening session of the Annual KOA International Convention as KOA Chairman Oscar Tang, President and CEO Pat Hittmeier, Chief Operations Officer […]

There’s no more recognizable name in U.S. RV retailing than Lazydays – officially known as Lazydays R.V. Center Inc. The suburban Tampa dealership’s original headquarters store, launched in 1976 under the guiding hands of Don, Ron and H.K. Wallace, has claimed status over the years as America’s largest single RV dealership. Today, under subsequent ownership, […]

Neither Southern California’s Anaheim wildfires (some 30 miles away) nor parking issues or thermometer-busting temperatures succeeded in dampening the continued growth of the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association’s (RVIA) California RV Show, which closed Sunday (Oct. 15) after a 10-day run at the Los Angeles Fair & Exposition Fairplex in Pomona. The 65th California Show has more than doubled […]

As the nation shifted its attention last week to Florida and the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, a heart-wrenching drama continued to play out in Texas as thousands of Lone Star State residents try to resolve real-life housing issues in several Gulf Coast communities that experienced catastrophic flooding in late August when Hurricane Harvey dumped 40 […]

A crowd of Elkhart-area business people converged for a Friday evening (Sept. 15) reception at the downtown offices of TaigMarks Inc. (TM) that included The Vine’s hors d’oeuvres, a few rounds of karaoke and an intriguing historical tour of the 1890’s-era building into which the marketing and public relations agency moved some 15 years ago. In fact, […]

  In these times of unprecedented natural disasters – including two lethal hurricanes in two weeks in Texas and now Florida, Lone Star State dealers like Chris Hoover and his 230 employees at Ron Hoover RV & Marine are still looking forward to a time when they and the rest of the Texas Gulf Coast will be […]

Friends and numerous RV industry supporters of the Bashor Children’s Home raised a record $300,000 last night (Sept. 7) during the 2nd Annual Bashor Children’s Home “Running with Spoons” Celebrity Chef fundraiser involving local business and industry chefs squaring off in a cooking competition at the Lerner Theater’s Crystal Ballroom in downtown Elkhart, Ind. To view the […]

As businesses and homeowners continue to deal with Hurricane Harvey’s devastation, many of the Texas Gulf Coast’s RV dealers were still adjusting over the Labor Day weekend to life in the wake of the epic storm which made landfall on Aug. 25, and ultimately dumped an estimated 27 trillion gallons of rain over Texas and Louisiana […]