Sherman Goldenberg Editor’s Note: The following is a column by RVBusiness Publisher Sherman Goldenberg offering an analysis of this year’s edition of the Elkhart RV Open House. In the week since the Elkhart RV Open House closed down and dealers returned to their hometowns from coast to coast, one of the most compelling takeaways from this year’s […]
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A scene of Intrigue and (fun) drama played out this morning (Sept. 24) when a crowd gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new 22,000-square-foot enclosed pavilion amid the sprawling Thor Industries Inc. exhibit just east of the RV/MH Heritage Foundation Inc.’s Hall of Fame. Why intrigue? Because everyone knew that Thor President and CEO […]
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Everyone knows that the Elkhart RV Open House has become North America’s preeminent recreational trade show. But who would have guessed that this crazy, spontaneous trade show would evolve — for at least a couple of days each fall — into one of the nation’s premier live music venues with manufacturers Thor Industries Inc., Forest […]
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The 2019 roster of RVBusiness Top 50 Dealer Award recipients has been released by RVBusiness, the Elkhart, Ind.-based trade journal that has partnered for nine years now with BJ Thompson Associates to promote the unique, bar-raising, industry-wide Top 50 program. These RV dealer honorees will be publicly recognized on stage Nov. 13 at an awards reception held during the Recreation […]
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RV Retailer LLC announced today (Sept, 17) that it has added three stores with the acquisition of Sonny’s Camp-N-Travel, a towable and motorized RV dealer with retail outlets in Charlotte, N.C., and Spartanburg, S.C., plus the opening last week of a tenth ExploreUSA RV Supercenter at a 16-acre greenfield location in Tyler, Texas. With these […]
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Although final attendance numbers weren’t available Monday (Sept. 16) in the wake of the Hershey Show — officially known as “America’s Largest RV Show” — the general consensus among the show’s exhibitors is that the 1,400-unit East Coast showcase served as a reminder to all facets of the RV industry that the retail pulse of […]
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The Pennsylvania Recreational Vehicle and Campground Association’s (PRVCA) signature Hershey Show is often viewed as a harbinger of things to come in the RV industry. And if that’s the case, the North American RV industry should prepare for robust retail growth in the year ahead, judging by the attendance and sales at this year’s show. […]
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Look for the debut of an Evoke toy hauler travel trailer at an Elkhart RV Open House exhibit manned by Travel Lite RV, a towable RV builder located in New Paris and Syracuse, Ind., that had posted impressive growth over the past five years until facing some serious headwinds and production layoffs over the past […]
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It’s no secret by now that once-retired RV industry executive Brian Brady and his two sons, Coley and Ryan Brady, are currently setting up an elaborate new towable RV manufacturing firm at a 110-acre industrial site on the east side of Elkhart, Ind. Now they’ve decided to go public with their $12 million initial plans […]
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The estimated 4,000 North American dealer personnel expected to attend the 2019 Elkhart RV Open House, slated for Sept. 23-26 in northern Indiana’s RV-building hub of Elkhart County, will likely see more than a few new twists at the continent’s largest wholesale RV-buying show. Along with a host of new supplier exhibitors, upgraded facilities, relocated […]
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