RVB Top 50 Dealer Awards Sponsor Profile: Brown & Brown – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
EDITOR’S NOTE: 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. Winning dealers will be recognized during a presentation Nov. 13 during the RV Dealers Convention/Expo at Paris Las Vegas.
The Top 50 program is made possible thanks to the generous sponsorship of the following organizations: Airxcel Inc., Brown & Brown Insurance, Cummins Inc., GE Appliances, Genesis Products, Northpoint Commercial Finance, NTP-STAG, Performance Brokerage Services, Protective Asset Protection, RV Trader, and Wells Fargo.
RVBusiness will publish a profile of each Top 50 sponsor leading up to the RV Dealers Convention/Expo.
Brown & Brown Insurance has deep roots in the RV industry and a long history of giving back to worthy organizations, perhaps most notably the RV Dealers Association.
In May, the company made a $26,666 contribution for 2024 to the RVDA Mike Molino RV Learning Center. The pledge fulfills Brown & Brown’s pledge of $200,000 for the RV Learning Center.
“The RV Learning Center continues to prove its incredible value as a source of training and education for the nation’s dealership fixed-ops personnel and we consider our contributions to be a good investment in the future of the industry,” says Michael Neal, president of Brown & Brown Dealer Services.
Brown & Brown’s parent company, Brown & Brown Inc., is the sixth-largest independent insurance brokerage in the nation and provides risk management solutions to help protect what its customers value most. The company has more than 16,000 teammates and more than 500 locations worldwide.
Brown and Brown is always looking to introduce new products for RV dealers and end customers. At last year’s RVDA Convention & Expo, the company introduced its first roof service contract, called Roof Pro, which it touts as the industry’s first service contract designed to cover RV roofs. The service contract is the result of an exclusive partnership between Brown & Brown and supplier Alpha Systems. The contract has a five-year term with a $100 deductible and a $10,000 limited liability limit.
To support its dealer partners, Brown & Brown hosts an annual F&I school for all of its dealers, at no cost to those dealers. In 2023, the company hosted a three-day school for the first time, which enabled 23 presentations from vendors, lenders and Brown & Brown employees.
What’s more, not only does Brown & Brown offer in-house F&I training, but it also offers compliance training for all of its dealers. The company says the majority of its agents have sat in the F&I seat themselves at one point in life and can truly relate to dealers and the process of a sale.
Brown & Brown is a proud sponsor of the RV Business Top 50 Dealer Awards program. “We value the relationship we have with all of our dealers, and truly support this program,” says Shawn Moran, president of RV F&I and Brown & Brown Dealer Services.
