RVB Announces its 2024 RVBusiness Top 50 Dealer Awards – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
ELKHART, Ind. – With an impressive hike in nominations and applications, the 2024 RVBusiness Top 50 Dealer Awards are again raising the bar in terms of RV retailing with today’s announcement of the latest round of Top 50 retailers highlighted by five exemplary “Blue Ribbon” dealers plus three special honorees.
The Top 50’s fundamental approach hasn’t changed since Day One; RV manufacturers are invited to nominate their best RV-retailing dealer partners, and this year well over 200 such nominations were received.
Nominated retailers are then encouraged to complete application forms for review by an anonymous, independent panel of industry judges – 12 of whom stepped up after this past Labor Day weekend for a rather intense day-and-a-half session at Elkhart’s RV/MH Hall of Fame, where they reviewed the applicants’ submissions to determine the final list of Top 50 dealers and special award designees.
“The big takeaway I have is just the quality of applications this year,” said RVB Chief Operating Officer Scott Stropkai near the end of the Sept. 5 final selections. “It was painful for the judges who had to drop some people that they know are worthy of Top 50 honors, but it just didn’t happen this year for some of them. And then there’s the five Blue Ribbon designees; I heard the judges felt that there were easily 10 to 15 dealers who could have qualified as Blue Ribbon dealers. So, that is great to see.”
The awards are to be presented at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 13, at a reception and ceremony during the 2024 RV Dealers Convention/Expo at Paris Las Vegas.
The high profile, 14-year-old program – which is facilitated by RVBusiness magazine and coordinated by BJ Thompson & Associates – is sponsored by Airxcel, Brown & Brown Dealer Services, Cummins Inc., GE Appliances, Genesis Products, NTP/STAG, Northpoint Commercial Finance, Protective Asset Protection, RV Trader and Wells Fargo Inventory Finance.
So, while RVB will take a closer look at things in tomorrow’s (Sept. 11) Top 50 follow-up posting, below is 2024’s alphabetical roster of Top 50 dealers with the five Blue Ribbon and three special award honorees receiving special recognition in bold type:
- Airstream Adventures, Portland, Ore.
- Alpin Haus RV, Amsterdam, N.Y.
- Bama RV, Dothan, Ala.
- Beaver Coach Sales & Service, Bend, Ore.
- Bent’s RV, Boutte, La.
- Bowling RV, Ottumwa, Iowa
- Bucars RV Centre, Balzac, Alberta
- Byerly RV Center, Eureka, Mo.
- Camperland of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Okla.
- Campers Inn RV, Jacksonville, Fla.
- Colonial Airstream & RV, Millstone Township, N.J.
- Crestview RV, Buda, Texas
- Curtis Trailers, Portland, Ore.
- Fraserway RV, Abbotsford, British Columbia
- Fun Town RV, Fort Worth, Texas
- General RV, Wixom, Mich.
- Gib’s RV Superstore, Coos Bay, Ore.
- Great American RV SuperStores, Hammond, La.
- Greeneway RV Sales & Service, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.
- Hartville RV Center, Hartville, Ohio
- Hemlock Hill RV, Southington, Conn.
- Hilltop Camper & RV, Fridley, Minn.
- Leisure Time Sales, Quispamsis, New Brunswick
- Moix RV Supercenter, Conway, Ark.
- Mountaineer RV & Outdoor Center, Jane Lew, W.V.
- Owasco RV Centre, Bowmanville, Ontario
- Parkview RV Center, Smyrna, Del.
- PleasureLand RV Center, St. Cloud, Minn.
- Premier RV, Blue Grass, Iowa
- Primeaux RV Superstores, Carencro, La.
- Princess Craft RV, Round Rock, Texas
- Rangeland RV & Trailer Sales, Rocky View, Alberta
- RCD RV Supercenter, Pataskala, Ohio
- Rich & Sons RV Headquarters, Grand Island, Neb.
- Ron Hoover RV & Marine Centers, Rockport, Texas
- Sicard RV, Smithville, Ontario
- Skaggs Family RV, Elizabethtown, Ky.
- Southaven RV & Marine, Southaven, Miss.
- Southern RV, McDonough, Ga.
- Steinbring Motorcoach, Garfield, Minn.
- United RV Center, Fort Worth, Texas
- Unlimited RV, Independence, Mo.
- Veurink’s RV Center, Grand Rapids, Mich.
- Vogt RV World, Fort Worth, Texas
- Voyager RV Centre, Winfield, British Columbia
- Walnut Ridge Family RV Sales, New Castle, Ind.
- Wilkins RV, Bath, N.Y.
- Windish RV, Lakewood, Colo.
- Woodland Airstream, Grand Rapids, Mich.
- Woody’s RV World, Calgary, Alberta
The 2024 Blue Ribbon Awards recipients are: Beaver Coach Sales & Service, Bucars RV Centre, Fraserway RV, Moix RV Supercenter and Princess Craft RV.
Meanwhile, the first-ever Sherman Goldenberg Digital Excellence Award sponsored by RV Trader went to Walnut Ridge Family RV Sales, while Campers Inn RV was singled out for the Gaylord Maxwell Innovation Award sponsored by Airxcel, and Curtis Trailers was selected for the Arthur J. Decio Humanitarian Award sponsored by Wells Fargo Inventory Finance.
