Fleming Sales Moves into New Facility on CR 17 in Elkhart – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
After 53 years at its facility on Industrial Parkway in Elkhart, Ind., Fleming Sales moved to a new location at 54900 County Rd 17, in Elkhart. The company stated it moved out of its old 43,000-square-foot facility to a newer, more efficient facility of just over 20,000 square feet.
The privately held, family-run business is celebrating serving the hardware, parts and RV industries for 80 years in 2025.
“My dad built the building we just moved out of in 1972,” said co-owner third generation Bob Grady of his father. John E. Grady joined his grandfather, Edgar Fleming’s, firm in 1947.
“We are actually about three miles away from where we were here on County Road 17 and Protector Drive now. It’s right on the corner of a main route in Elkhart, north and south, perfect for our distribution. It’s a very good location. A lot of traffic, a lot of exposure.”
Third in line of the four generations of family that has led Fleming Sales, Bob Grady, has run parts and service since 1972. He stated that its new facility represents a consolidation process for the firm. His brother, CEO, Mark Grady and fourth generation in the family, and national sales and marketing executive, Caryn Grady manage the firm day to day.
“We’re leasing this new facility that’s about half the size of the original building,” explained Bob. “It was time to consolidate. We just didn’t need all that space. It was quite an undertaking, but we got it done with everything moved in a month. After 53 years of accumulating stuff it was a good move. And everybody’s settling in. We’re doing really well. The fun part now is reorganizing, getting everything just where we want it and set up. Our customers are happy and that is what counts.”
The firm is well known throughout the RV industry for offering its premium RV parts and accessories for over 70 years. According to Grady the business has evolved over the years starting as a manufacturer’s representative business by representing a number of companies such as MTD lawn and garden products and kerosine heaters when they were popular. Eventually, as many of these companies sold to larger conglomerates, “We decided to take better control of our future by building our own products and directly importing others,” stated Grady.
Today, the company successfully carved out a niche in fabrication, distribution and sale of products to RV manufacturers.
