Sherman Goldenberg

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 […]

Although the Canadian and U.S. RV industries are closely aligned, Go RVing Canada – an offshoot of North America’s 18-year-old Go RVing Coalition’s market expansion program – opted three years ago to develop its own advertising creative for promoting the RV lifestyle north of the border. And those involved in Go RVing Canada’s early April […]

Although the Canadian and U.S. RV industries are closely aligned, Go RVing Canada – an offshoot of North America’s 18-year-old Go RVing Coalition’s market expansion program – opted three years ago to develop its own advertising creative for promoting the RV lifestyle north of the border. And those involved in Go RVing Canada’s early April […]

The vast majority of North American RV dealerships — 94.8%  – were profitable in 2014, according to a non-scientific “2015 RVB/GE Dealer Survey” of RV retailers co-sponsored in February by RVBusiness magazine and GE Capital Commercial Distribution Finance (CDF). The survey, designed to provide a look back at 2014 and a speculative glance forward at […]

In an era when startup companies are becoming more the exception than the rule, three experienced RV industry executives have launched a new manufacturing firm specializing in factory-direct sales of towable Weekend Warrior toy haulers and Avion-brand Class B motorhomes – both iconic brand names from earlier days in the RV industry. The new manufacturing […]

The NTEA’s Work Truck Show 2015, slated for March 4-6 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, is focused specifically on a vocational truck crowd including commercial truck fleet operators, upfitters, management companies, leasing professionals, manufacturers and suppliers. But it most likely will again draw significant interest among overlapping exhibitors and attendees from the nation’s […]

The NTEA’s Work Truck Show 2015, slated for March 4-6 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, is focused specifically on a vocational truck crowd including commercial truck fleet operators, upfitters, management companies, leasing professionals, manufacturers and suppliers. But it most likely will again draw significant interest among overlapping exhibitors and attendees from the nation’s […]

The Allied Recreation Group (ARG) this morning (Jan. 14) held a press conference at the Florida RV SuperShow to unveil a complete reinvention of ARG’s upscale American Eagle Class A motorhome — a triple-slide, 45-footer featuring seamless, fully integrated front and rear caps, heated holding tanks, high-tech cockpit instrumentation and chic new interiors that the […]