Sherman Goldenberg

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 […]

Go RVing Canada, a year-old marketing offshoot of the 19-year-old U.S.-based Go RVing Coalition’s national market expansion program, is exceeding the expectations of its founding board, comprised of members of the Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA) of Canada and the Canadian RV Association (CRVA). Although it’s closely aligned with and funded through the U.S. program, […]

Almost lost in the week’s daunting national news was the sad story of 10-year-old Blaike Glassburn, a Mishawaka, Ind., youth who lost his life early Tuesday (June 14) while tent-camping with his family at Indiana Beach Amusement Resort in Monticello, Ind. It was a one-in-a-million set of circumstances – some would call it an act […]

RVBUSINESS.com has confirmed rampant news reports of the Friday (June 10) closure of Evergreen Recreational Vehicles LLC, a 300-employee, Middlebury, Ind.-based towable RV manufacturer. “We have suspended the majority of our operations effective Friday, as we try to reorganize, sell assets and/or brands of EverGreen RV,” indicated an official for the company located north of […]

It’s not often that a publication survives for 75 years, especially in an era in which newspaper and magazine publishing in general has faced so many challenges. But those receiving the July issue of Trailer Life, published monthly out of Oxnard, Calif., by GS Media & Events, a division of Good Sam Enterprises LLC, were […]

President Barack Obama’s Wednesday (June 1) return to the RV manufacturing center of Elkhart, a northern Indiana city that he repeatedly visited during the recession because of its high unemployment rates, clearly cast a positive national spotlight on a resurgent area that today accounts for 85% of U.S. recreational vehicle shipments and tens of thousands […]

The bulk of Jayco Inc.’s senior management team surprised the Middlebury, Ind.-based RV manufacturer’s senior executives Wednesday morning (May 25) in the company’s executive conference room with a momento – a trophy – marking what in this industry is a remarkable feat by anyone’s estimation: the production of the RV builder’s one millionth unit. While Chairman […]

It’s a good news-bad news story for the northern Indiana cities of Elkhart and Goshen and for the 500 workers being laid off by Diversified Machine, a manufacturer of automotive parts located in Bristol. A division of Chassix, a large Michigan-based parts supplier, Diversified announced in a WARN notice Friday that it was downsizing its […]