Go RVing Canada’s Making Headway in 2nd Year

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, […]

EverGreen Official Confirms Company’s Closing

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 […]

The BUZZ: Donnelly Appreciates Obama’s Visit

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 […]

Jayco Surprises Execs with Milestone Trophy

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 […]

Ex-Auto Workers Could Land RV Jobs in Elkhart

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 […]

RVIA Attracting 300-Plus for NHTSA Seminar

The Recreation Vehicle Industry Association’s (RVIA) first full-blown effort to bring the RV industry’s manufacturers and suppliers up to speed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) latest safety-related requirements was well underway this morning (May 4) as a large crowd of RVIA members and non-members were in attendance for the all-day seminar held at the […]