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October 21, 2022
Camplify to acquire German company PaulCamper
Australian RV rental company Camplify has reportedly entered an agreement to acquire Germany’s leading peer to peer RV rental marketplace PaulCamper. The deal will help Camplify continue its global expansion – it is already a rental market operator in countries including Australia, New Zealand, Spain, the UK, Netherlands, and Austria....
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October 20, 2022
Al’s Sporting Goods aquires all Bob Ward & Sons locations
Al’s Sporting Goods announced the acquisition of Bob Ward & Sons and will take over operations of all five of its locations in Missoula, Bozeman, Butte, Helena, and Hamilton. There are currently no plans to change the company name of Bob Ward & Sons, but they will integrate successful operations and...
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October 20, 2022
KOA: 2.1% Q3 Revenue Growth, Advance Bookings Up 4.5%
Kampgrounds of America Inc.’s (KOA) shares continued revenue growth in its Q3 Business Report, according to a company release. Comparing the same period in a record-setting 2021, revenue improved by 2.1% on a same-store basis. Looking ahead, advanced deposits on future business are up 4.5%. RV Business
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October 19, 2022
Cotopaxi Closes San Francisco Store After Repeated Break-Ins
Citing lawlessness and “chaos,” Cotopaxi CEO Davis Smith announced on his personal LinkedIn page yesterday that he has closed the company’s sole San Francisco retail location. “As of today, we are closing the store due to rampant organized theft and lack of safety for our team,” Smith wrote on October 18. “Our store is...
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October 19, 2022
Aspen Snowmass Has Cool Idea to Help Housing Crunch for Workers
It’s called Tenants for Turns and it’s a simple idea. If homeowners or landlords in the Roaring Fork Valley area of western Colorado, which encompasses Aspen and Carbondale, two areas in which affordable housing is incredibly difficult to come by, rent their housing to employees of the company that owns...
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October 19, 2022
RV Industry Association Responds to Indy Star Reports
The RV Industry Association (RVIA) on Wednesday issued a statement in response to a pair of Indy Star stories published Oct. 19 that reflected poorly on the RV manufacturing side of the industry, which RVIA represents. The “subscriber’s exclusive” focuses initially on the period in early 2020 when COVID-19 first...
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October 19, 2022
Outdoor Retailers Give Customers Their Expertise for Free. Should They?
The cost of spending valuable time and energy on customers, only to have them walk away, is measurable and meaningful. Ieremia estimates he and his sales staff lose 10 to 15 hours per week to non-paying customers, or 480 to 720 hours a year. In dollars, he estimates that time...
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October 19, 2022
Winnebago Sees 14 Percent Growth In Fourth Quarter
Winnebago Industries reported sales rose 13.8 percent in the fourth quarter and 36.6 percent in the fiscal year ending August 27. Quarterly sales and earnings exceeded Wall Street’s targets. Revenues for the Fiscal 2022 fourth quarter ended August 27, 2022, were $1.2 billion, an increase of 13.8 percent compared to...
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October 18, 2022
Patagonia Will Donate $100 Million a Year to Fight Climate Change. What Can that Money Accomplish?
On September 14, one of the most influential business owners in the outdoor space made a decision that stunned the world. Yvon Chouinard, founder of the apparel brand Patagonia, announced that he had voluntarily given away his $3 billion company, placing ownership in a trust and vowing to spend all...
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October 17, 2022
Nims Purja Issues Statement on Fatal Parachuting Accident
Famed mountaineer Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja was involved in a tragic parachuting accident that claimed the life of his instructor, Dean Waldo, on Oct .14. Now, Purja outlines some of what happened. Gear Junkie
