Entry Deadline Looms for RVB’s Top 50 Dealer Awards – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
The 2024 RVBusiness Top 50 RV Dealer Awards program has entered its next phase, as more than 220 dealerships have been nominated by RV manufacturers – which is believed to be a record amount.
Those nominated dealers, in turn, have been invited to complete their respective entries and return them to Barb Riley, ([email protected]) of BJ Thompson Associates, which coordinates the Top 50 program each year. Entries must be postmarked by Aug. 23.
Now in its 14th year, the RVBusiness Top 50 program celebrates those North American RV dealerships that, in the eyes of an esteemed panel of independent judges, best exemplifies dealer excellence in customer and community service. An announcement of the 2024 Top 50 winners will be made closer to the RV Dealers Convention/Expo, and winners will be presented at a special Nov. 13 reception during the RV Dealers Convention/Expo at Paris Las Vegas,
As part of the process, emails were sent in June to RV manufacturers, inviting them to nominate their dealer partners for Top 50 consideration. OEMs were asked to carefully consider their selections, as the ideal nominees for this program are not necessarily their largest dealers, but those who promote best practices in all aspects of their businesses, including customer service, operational innovation, employee training and certification, charitable outreach and general excellence in overall business practices.
In turn, those nominated dealers will be asked to submit an application, which are due by mid-August so that a panel of high-profile industry representatives can review them and finalize selections during a two-day in-person session in early September at the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Ind.
Once again, the Top 50 roster will include five exemplary “Blue Ribbon” dealerships plus three special distinctions — the Gaylord Maxwell Innovation Award recognizing creative business strategies, the Arthur J. Decio Humanitarian Award bestowed upon a U.S. or Canadian dealer who has excelled at charitable endeavors, and the Sherman Goldenberg Award for Excellence in Digital Marketing. The specialty awards are sponsored by Airxcel Inc., Wells Fargo DF, and RV Trader, respectively.
“We’re delighted to have received so many nominations, and we’re encouraged that so many dealers have taken the time to complete an entry,” said Rick Kessler, publisher and executive editor of G&G Media Group LLC, the Elkhart-based source of RVBusiness and Woodall’s Campground Magazine.
