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Check out the supplier exhibits at key RV and marine shows this winter and you’ll likely run across a display manned by representatives of FUSION Entertainment, an Auckland, New Zealand-based firm specializing in audio systems, speakers, amplifiers and the like that has been showcasing a new RV-IN801 Infotainment System designed for in-dash installation. “We’ve been around […]

Boogey Lights already had an established reputation in motorsports accent lighting for motorcycles as well as boats, golf carts, ATV’s, cars and trucks before expanding the reach of its high intensity LED lighting into the towable and motorized RV marketplace over the past year and a half, reported Brad Butler, president and CEO of the Florence, […]

Bill Murnane has succeeded Tim Sheehan as the chief executive of Lazydays RV, a well-known, 40-year-old, five-site retailer that operates the nation’s largest single-site RV dealership at its 126-acre, suburban Tampa, Fla., headquarters. The Tampa store houses a 1,500-unit inventory, 330 service bays, three restaurants and a 300-site campground. But it’s not like Murnane was […]

A full contingent of Dometic Corp.’s senior management was on hand at RVIA’s National RV Trade Show, Nov. 28-Dec. 1 in Louisville, Ky., for the formal rollout of a new corporate rebranding initiative designed to align all of the publicly held, Stockholm-based firm’s brands, logos and 6,500 employees located in Germany, Belgium, Sweden, China, the […]

Lippert Components Inc. (LCI) announced an acquisition during RVIA’s National RV Trade Show in late November that clearly wasn’t consistent with other mid-size firms the $1.4-billion-a-year Elkhart, Ind.-based supplier had purchased in recent years because the seller in this case — Camping Connection – doesn’t manufacture anything. The small Florida-based firm instead specializes in mobile […]

Last Wednesday’s (Nov. 30) news that East Coast RV retailer Campers Inn RV is purchasing southern Indiana’s Tom Stinnett Derby City RV — and adding a 16th store in the process – wasn’t lost on thousands of busy attendees at the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association’s (RVIA) 54th Annual National RV Trade Show. After all, Campers Inn President […]

Back in his Denver office after a hectic convention week in Texas, Paul Bambei, president and CEO of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC), had only good things to say about ARVC’s busy Outdoor Hospitality Conference and Expo (OHCE), held Nov. 8-11 at the Fort Worth Convention Center in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. […]

Ask a room full of RV industry people if they’ve ever heard of Spader Business Management (SBM), and they’ll likely give you a unanimous “yes.” They’ll surely know that Spader, a Sioux Falls, S.D., firm launched 40 years ago by Duane Spader, a respected industry executive now retired in Georgia, organizes 20 Groups and high-profile workshops at […]

Lazydays RV today (Oct. 17) announced the resignation of President & CEO Tim Sheehan “for family reasons” and has named current board chairman William P. “Bill” Murnane as the new CEO, effective Dec. 1. Murname remains chairman. Sheehan, who joined 40-year-old Lazydays as CEO in April of 2013 after 28 years as an executive with […]

With an eye toward last night’s (Oct. 13) 50th anniversary celebration of Camper’s Inn RV, one of the nation’s emerging multi-store RV dealerships with corporate offices in both Kingston, N.H., and Jacksonville, Fla., Campers Inn CEO Jeff Hirsch distributed to friends and partners the following invitation to a birthday party that wound up drawing a crowd of […]