Sherman Goldenberg

Time and again, the industry talks about the Millennials – people from their late teens to their early ‘30s with their authentically different views of our culture, products and society. They, like countless generations before them, audaciously challenge conventional wisdom on many levels as the industry works to develop products and parks to suit their intrinsic […]

Judging by the attitudes and comments of the independent RV dealers who gathered Mar. 28-30 at the M Resort Spa & Casino Hotel in suburban Las Vegas for the 18th Annual Priority RV Network Meeting, the U.S. RV industry – barring the unforeseen – is in a position to post its seventh consecutive year of growth […]

The shifting tectonic plates in the RV parts and accessories aftermarket have actually accelerated the growth of some of North America’s so-called “regional” distributors – small-to-midsize operations like Port Trevorton, Pa.-based Keller Marine & RV. The 100-employee distributorship, a long-term player in the Mid-Atlantic and New England States launched in 1958 as a boat parts […]

In the rapidly changing landscape of the North American RV parts and accessories arena, one of the newest entrants — and perhaps one of the real wild cards for existing players in this highly competitive field — is Meyer Distributing, a Jasper, Ind.-based automotive parts specialist that directly stepped in last July with the acquisition […]

When RVB caught up with new Winnebago Industries Inc. President and CEO Michael J. Happe late Friday afternoon (Feb. 12), he was driving north from Winnebago’s Forest City, Iowa, headquarters to the suburban St. Paul, Minn., site of his 17-year-old son Brady’s high school basketball game. It was a fitting moment for Happe, a former Toro […]

The 2016 Elkhart RV Open House, one of the RV industry’s two key national wholesale RV-buying trade venues, is slated for the week of Sept. 19 in and around the northern Indiana city of Elkhart. The show immediately follows one of the year’s top retail-centric events – the Pennsylvania RV & Camping Association’s popular Hershey […]

Anthony Wollschlager is joining Dicor Corp. as Chief Operating Officer, effective Monday (Feb. 8), reports Dicor President Gregg Fore. Wollschlager, a native Australian and a graduate of the University of Evansville, joins Dicor after having served in a management position for publicly held WESCO International Inc., a northern Indiana-based firm at which he last was director and general […]

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will keynote the first half of this year’s 4th Annual RV Industry Power Breakfast, a fast-paced, information-rich event catering to early-rising recreational vehicle industry constituents along with civic and business leaders. The Power Breakfast is slated for May 12 from 7-9:45 a.m. at the RV/MH Hall of Fame’s Northern Indiana Event Center […]

RV industry people understandably spend the bulk of their time absorbed in conversations about the merits of things like hitch weights and interior decors, awnings and tag-axles. But many of us probably lose track at times on a personal level of the real-life consumers in whose hands all of these recreational vehicles eventually wind up. […]

The crowds that converged last week on the Born Free Motorcoach display during public days (Jan. 13-17) of the Florida RV Trade Association’s (FRVTA) 2016 Florida RV SuperShow served notice that the small 47-year-old Humboldt, Iowa motorhome builder co-founded by John N. Dodgen – a coach-building pioneer and inventor who passed away in August — […]