Excel Closing Its Doors
Peterson Industries made the following post this morning in the Excel Owners' Group forum over on another RVing website: Dear Excel Family Members, Peterson Industries, Inc. has been a pillar...
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The Mad Norsky wrote:
To be honest here, I do believe Excel suffered from much the very same problems as Hitchhiker/Nuwa.
And perhaps major among them was a very poor, or rather small, dealers network.
Do a search on RV Trader site and one would find a dealer in New Mexico, one in Texas and one in Michigan advertising Excels. Think there also may have been one in the New England area of the country.
Way too few.
There are no real dealer "networks" in the RV industry, only companies that happen to sell the same brand as other companies. If there were "networks", like in the auto business, dealers would be able to share inventory, trade or buy/sell back and forth, and there would be zero issues with service, no matter where you purchased your RV.
Lyle
