Go RVing Canada Strikes Chord with ‘Wildhood’

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 […]

Go RVing Canada Strikes Chord with ‘Wildhood’

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 […]

RVB/GE Dealer Survey: 95% Posted ’14 Profits

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 […]

NeXus Partners Launch Factory-Direct Startup

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 […]

NTEA ‘Work Truck Show’ Slated for March 4-6

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 […]

NTEA Work Truck Show Slated for March 4-6

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 […]

ARG Debuts ’16 American Eagle 45A in Tampa

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 […]

Jayco Expansion Increases Motorized Capacity

It’s no secret that RV manufacturers in a strong growth market have been scrambling lately to acquire real estate and facilities in an effort to add production capacity at a pretty impressive rate – a prime example of which is the new 185,000-square-foot, Jayco Motorhome Group plant currently nearing completion on the southwest side of […]

Jayco Expansion Targets Higher-End Coaches

It’s no secret that RV manufacturers in a strong growth market have been scrambling lately to acquire real estate and facilities in an effort to add production capacity at a pretty impressive rate – a prime example of which is the new 185,000-square-foot, Jayco Motorhome Group plant currently nearing completion on the southwest side of […]