Sherman Goldenberg

Forest River Inc. CEO Pete Liegl and Thor Industries Inc. President and CEO Bob Martin have agreed to reschedule – by a week – this year’s Elkhart RV Open House in an effort to relax fall show schedules for scores of front-line salespeople from a variety of companies. As a result, the Open House in […]

Forest River Inc. CEO Pete Liegl and Thor Industries Inc. President and CEO Bob Martin have agreed to reschedule – by a week – this year’s Elkhart RV Open House in an effort to relax fall show schedules for scores of front-line salespeople from a variety of companies. As a result, the Open House in […]

Reston, Va.-based Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) held its second briefing Thursday morning (March 1) in Elkhart, Ind., to present its vision for an all-new spring event currently under development for 2019 by the national trade association’s leadership to replace the 54-year-old National RV Trade Show – better known as the Louisville Show – that was dropped […]

The Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) is well underway with plans for its new all-industry trade show set to take place in the spring of 2019 following the surprising mid-January announcement that the trade group’s board of directors had unanimously voted to replace the traditional, 54-year-old RVIA National RV Trade Show in Louisville, Ky. – […]

In a surprising turn of events, the ROUTE 66 RV Network, one of the nation’s leading independent RV dealer groups, announced that it will no longer do business with NTP-STAG, a unit of Keystone Automotive Operations Inc. that oversees the country’s only coast-to-coast distribution network of RV aftermarket parts and accessories. However, few details were […]

Hundreds of Lazydays RV employees paused early Wednesday morning (Jan. 10) during an all-employee meeting at the dealership’s suburban Tampa headquarters to recognize the high-profile Florida RV retailer’s ambitious, youth-oriented, charitable programs for which the five-store dealer recently received the Arthur J. Decio Humanitarian Award sponsored by Ally Financial Inc. The award, facilitated by RVBusiness magazine as part of the […]

Along with the impressive financial growth his publicly held company has posted lately, Lippert Components Inc. (LCI) CEO Jason Lippert seems equally pleased this holiday season to report that the company’s 9,500 employees have achieved the rather extraordinary goal he set out for them nearly a year ago by logging at least 100,000 hours of community […]

The 2018 RVBusiness RV of the Year, as RVIA National RV Trade Show attendees learned this week during a packed first-ever RV Industry Awards event at the Mercury Ballroom in Louisville, Ky., is Winnebago Industries Inc.’s high-end Horizon Class A diesel motorhome with its authentically different modernistic interiors designed by the Iowa manufacturer’s in-house staff […]

After Kampgrounds of America Inc.’s (KOA) senior management team completed its main presentations at the outset of the organization’s International Convention Nov. 15-18 in Phoenix, Ariz., President and CEO Pat Hittmeier and COO Toby O’Rourke paused for an interview in which they shed some light on the impressive year-end report Montana-based KOA issued during the […]

With the 90% of its 500 parks posting gains in 2017, life is good right now for Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA), America’s largest network of private campgrounds. That much was apparent during Thursday’s (Nov. 16) opening session of the Annual KOA International Convention as KOA Chairman Oscar Tang, President and CEO Pat Hittmeier, Chief Operations Officer […]