Elkhart, Ind.-based Thor Industries Inc. today (Nov. 4) announced preliminary sales, as well as continued growth in the company’s backlog, for its fiscal 2014 first quarter, ended Oct. 31. Preliminary consolidated sales from continuing operations in the first quarter were $802.6 million, up 5.4% from $761.4 million in the first quarter last year. Towable RV [...]

(Oct. 4, 2013) -- "Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to visit a number of state parks in Florida. While my visits have been of the tent camping variety, the activities at each park are just as great if you’re waking up in your 40-foot home away from home," said Esparza

Elkhart, Ind.-based supplier Atwood Mobile Products LLC has announced a bimonthly webinar series named S.W.A.T. (Success with Atwood Training) to provide technical and product training to OEMs, distributors, dealerships and service centers throughout North America. According to a press release, the technical portion of the webinars will address installation, troubleshooting and sequence of operations for [...]

(Nov. 4, 2013) -- Last week, the Full Federal Court handed down a judgment that will have significant implications on the way brand owners think about protecting their brands in Australia, writes the Association of Corporate Council.

(Nov. 4, 2013) -- “Saturating public space with earlier and earlier holiday fare is upsetting, because it violates and devalues the psychological role holidays play in our lives,” said Batcho. "Earlier holiday décor separates us from the actual events that hold, and will hold, such emotional meaning for us.”

(Nov. 4, 2013) -- Running a company with annual sales over $3.2 billion and 8,300 employees may seem challenging. But Bob Martin, CEO of Thor Industries, withstood an even greater challenge more than 20 years ago, writes Investor's Business Daily.

(Nov. 4, 2013) -- The Monitor reports that Marie Howard is making the Rio Grande Valley a safer and friendlier place for Winter Texans with the Casa del Valle RV Resort in Alamo, which recently received the Texas RV Association’s Park of the Year award.

(Nov. 4,, 2013) -- Sylvania Canada is offering Canadians the opportunity to take a three-day, three-night, road trip for two. The company will pick up the tab for a deluxe RV with a driver/tour guide, breakfasts and airfare, plus $500 in tourist attraction tickets. The contest ends Nov. 30.

(Nov. 4, 2013) -- Tonight's Prince George City Council meeting will feature a public hearing on a proposal to rezone a nearly 10-hectare property for the development of an RV park and campground, reports the Prince George Citizen.

(Nov. 4, 2013) -- “Our company’s explosive same store sales plus additional acquisitions and openings, coupled with another year of an unprecedented level of profitability has earned us a multi-year facility," said Lemonis. "Our top line outlook for 2014 remains positive, our tight inventory controls and right sized SGA has us well positioned for another solid financial performance.”