Sherman Goldenberg

The Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA) of Canada marked the organization’s 30th anniversary Tuesday (Aug. 23) night with a special reception, recognition ceremony and dinner at the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Ind. (To view a slideshow scroll to the right side of the RVBUSINESS.com home page). Attendees included numerous past RVDA of Canada […]

As the Recreation Vehicle Aftermarket Association (RVAA) yesterday concluded its Aug. 15-18 Executive Conference – an annual affair at which RV industry distributors and suppliers held a series of business-minded private meetings at the Loews Hotel in Chicago – RVAA President Susan Carpenter and Executive Director Jon Krueger agreed to a quick interview with RVBUSINESS.com […]

Dixie RV Superstores CEO Greg Lala estimates that his company’s main store in Hammond, La., sustained as much as $30 million in damage to its physical plant and RV inventory as a result of a historic 50-year rainfall that fell last week, off and on, over a five-day period in southern Louisiana. And while the […]

Not since 1999 have all three major financial indexes posted record highs as they did yesterday (Aug. 11), with the Dow Jones Industrial Average at 18,613, the S&P 500 at 2,185.79 and the NASDAQ Composite at 5,228.40 – which equates to a little over a 12% increase for both the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 and […]

Exactly a month after Middlebury, Ind.-based Jayco Inc. was acquired by Thor Industries Inc., the show displays opened today (Aug 1) for the annual Jayco Dealer Homecoming with some 450 dealer personnel representing about 170 dealerships in attendance at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Fla. But when Jayco President Derald Bontrager steps up to the […]

The industry’s fastest growing brand name RV consumer club, the four-year-old Forest River Owners Group (FROG), is expecting a record turnout of 800 units – totaling 1,600 attendees – at its sold-out FROG International Rally Aug. 14-20 at the Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds in Goshen, Ind. FROG Director Bob Byrne, who works with scores of volunteers […]

Former EverGreen Recreational Vehicles LLC President Don Emahiser has been named chief operating officer for Stealth Cargo Trailers, a Bristol, Ind.-based manufacturer of steel and aluminum cargo trailers designed for hauling cars, motorcycles and snowmobiles. “Stealth is one of the leading cargo trailer manufacturers in the industry,” reported Stealth Chairman Kelly Rose, who started 250-employee […]

A rather massive three-day auction is set for today through Wednesday (July 11-13) at three former locations of EverGreen Recreational Vehicles LLC, a towable RV builder with plants located north of Middlebury, Ind., that suspended operations and announced the layoff of approximately 300 workers about a month ago after experiencing protracted financial difficulties. Nappanee, Ind.-based Hahn Auctioneers Inc. […]

Tectonic plates moved in a sense within the North American RV industry on Thursday (June 30) when Thor Industries Inc. – one of the RV arena’s two manufacturing leaders – announced an agreement to acquire Jayco Corp., merging Thor’s 11,000 employees with Jayco’s 3,300 workers and consolidating 47.1% of the U.S. RV retail market share […]

Exeter, Pa.-based Keystone Automotive Operations Inc. (KAO) had previously announced the opening of its sprawling, 360,000-square-foot Brownstown, Mich., warehouse, which has been shipping parts and accessories orders to independent automotive retailers and RV parts and accessories clients since last fall. (To view a slideshow scroll to the right side of the RVBUSINESS.com home page). But […]