Sherman Goldenberg

No one company may better exemplify the current upbeat state of the recreational vehicle marketplace than Airstream Inc., a high-profile Jackson Center, Ohio, RV manufacturer that presented an incredibly positive state-of-the-company report during last week’s (May 16-18) 2017 Airstream Dealer Meeting at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. Employment at the […]

New Paris, Ind.-based Travel Lite Inc., a 19-year-old truck camper and travel trailer manufacturer, is poised for growth with plans in place for three additional mainstream towable entries and for an all-new 26-acre, off-site facility at a new regional location – details of which aren’t being released yet – that will more than double the […]

Editor’s Note: The following Q&A with Paul Bambei, president and CEO of the National Association of RV Parks & Campgrounds (ARVC) appears in Woodall’s Campground Management, sister company to RVBusiness. The senior management team at the National Association of RV Parks & Campgrounds (ARVC) — including President and CEO Paul Bambei, Senior Director of Education Barb […]

A busy Wednesday (March 29) auction of tooling and varied factory equipment apparently represented the final chapter in the story of Forks RV Inc., a small family-held firm located on U.S. 20 west of Shipshewana, Ind., in the heart of Hoosier Amish country, that started out manufacturing commercial buildings and police command centers in 1991. […]

Today’s (Mar. 2) morning session of the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association’s 2017 Leadership Conference – formerly known as the RVIA Annual Meeting – in Boca Raton, Fla., featured a flurry of good reports on the overall performance and outlook of the U.S. recreational vehicle arena. But one of the more interesting turn of events to emerge […]

There’s probably no better example today of how RV industry suppliers are contributing to — and benefiting from — the RV arena’s ongoing, seven-year growth spurt than Elkhart, Ind.-based Genesis Products. The 525-employee, seven-facility firm, which specializes in laminated panels and interior components, is launching construction in March of a 200,000-square-foot corporate center on the […]

The RV industry’s ongoing growth curve is prompting a wave of expansion projects, and there’s no better example of that positive turn of events than the main Goshen, Ind., campus of Keystone RV Co., where, from all appearances, a building boom is underway. Not only is the 5,000-employee Thor Industries Inc. subsidiary in the middle […]

Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly took a break from the rigors of Washington D.C. Monday (Feb. 20) to visit a front-line RV industry supplier, Robert Weed Plywood Corp. in Bristol, Ind., where he spent time at a variety of work stations learning about the work-a-day regimen that employees of the 50-year-old, family-held business experience on a […]

Making their first joint appearance under the Covercraft Industries LLC banner at the 2017 NTP-STAG Expo were representatives of Pauls Valley, Okla.-based Covercraft, a 52-year-old supplier of automotive custom-fit vehicle covers, and ADCO Products Inc., a 62-year-old firm marketing a variety of RV covers out of Valencia, Calif., following the surprise Dec. 22 announcement that […]

As reported on RVBUSINESS.com late last week, Elkhart, Ind.-based supplier Lippert Components Inc. (LCI) is launching an unprecedented companywide “social responsibility initiative” through which LCI’s 7,500 employees are being asked to donate 100,000 hours of community service work in the numerous communities in which LCI’s 48 plants are located. “Our senior leaders (management) get together as […]