Sherman Goldenberg

When The Source Co. hosts a crowd of RV industry clients tonight (July 23) at the South Bend Cubs-Great Lakes Loons minor league baseball game at Four Winds Field, the center of attention — at least for a moment — will be a familiar face to many in the recreational vehicle business: Mike Peterson, sales/product […]

In a move that’s sure to make waves in the RV industry, Elkhart, Ind.-based Lippert Components Inc. has reached a six-year exclusive distribution agreement with fellow supplier Furrion LLC — a Hong Kong-based technology component vendor with U.S. headquarters and a service center on the north side of Elkhart from which it markets power systems, audio-visual […]

RVBusiness is rolling out the 2015 RVBusiness Top 50 Dealer Awards through which well-run U.S. and Canadian retailers nominated by North American RV manufacturers will be recognized at a Nov. 4 reception held during the 2015 RV Dealers International Convention/Expo at Bally’s on the Las Vegas Strip. The convention is sponsored by the U.S.-based Recreation […]

Veteran sales manager Brian Clemens has been named general manager of Forest River Inc.’s Elkhart, Ind.-based Dynamax division following the departure of Jim Jacobs, who recently assumed the presidency of ASV’s Allied Recreation Group in Decatur, Ind. Clemens, who spent the past two years as national sales manager for Forest River’s Class C division, began […]

While the big news from the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association’s (RVIA) annual Committee Week dealt with the selection of former Outdoor Industry Foundation (OIA) President Frank Hugelmeyer to succeed the retiring Richard Coon as president of Reston, Va.-based RVIA, there was plenty of activity in the park model RV arena which, at least in part, […]

The Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) and the Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA) have resumed informal talks regarding the possibility of the industry’s key trade groups eventually merging RVIA’s National RV Trade Show in Louisville, Ky., and RVDA and RVDA of Canada’s RV Dealers International Convention/Expo in Las Vegas. Those conversations, we’re told, have restarted […]

The Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association’s (RVDA) board approved a revised Dealer Satisfaction Index (DSI) survey during its June 2 board meeting in Arlington, Va. The annual DSI survey, the results of which are monitored closely by manufacturers, measures dealers’ satisfaction with overall product quality. The streamlined survey, concentrating on vehicle reliability/quality as well as parts, […]

Renegade Classic There are few companies in the RV business with more diverse product offerings than Bristol, Ind.-based Renegade RV, which first built a reputation as a manufacturer of heavy-duty, racing-type motorhomes and specialty vehicles appealing to drag racers, snowmobilers and dirt bikers. Then came custom motorhomes, race car haulers, equestrian units, mobile command centers […]

All that traffic in and out of the RV/MH Hall of Fame on Wednesday (May 6) was due to a new-to-the-Elkhart-market “Partners in Profit” trade show hosted by Industrial Finishes & Systems Inc., a Eugene, Ore.-based distributor of paint and related equipment and supplies. The event brought together 35 exhibiting suppliers specializing in paint/body/finish products […]

Editor’s Note: RVBusiness and Woodall’s Campground Management Publisher Sherman Goldenberg writes a monthly “Publisher’s Corner” column for WCM. This column appears in May’s issue. I had a chat this week with Paul Bambei, president and CEO of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC), coming out of the Colorado-based association’s most recent spring […]