Ralph Cramden wrote:
Despite what you see, Thor and Forest River hold 82 to 85 % market share in any given month. Winnebago falls into the remaining 15% along with their acquisiton of Grand Design, and every other manufacturer including Newmar, Tiffen, even Provost. Add in Outdoors Rv, Northwood, and all the others, they divide up that 15%
travelnutz wrote:
Latest published numbers of various RV manufacturer's employees. Takes employees to make RV's and all manufacturers run skinny on management.
Employees numbers at all RV manufacturing lines plants:
Thor RV - 17,800
Forest River RV - 11,000
Winnebago RV - 2,800
Jayco RV - 2,190
Lance RV - 650
Northwood Products RV - 400
Airstream RV - 300
Tiffin RV - 175
Lots of smaller RV manufacturers.
Yes, Winnebago is very small compared to Thor and Forest River. We live in West Michigan on the Lake Michigan lakeshore and winter 2-1/2 months in Florida and really do not see many of the Winnebago manufactured RV model lines either place. Even a lot less like maybe one a week of Northwood manufactured RV lines. See a lot more Jayco, Lance, Airstream, and Tiffin and of course Thor and Forest River. We live just 120 miles north of where most by far of the RV's are made in far Northern Indiana just south of the Michigan line.
DrewE wrote:Ralph Cramden wrote:
Despite what you see, Thor and Forest River hold 82 to 85 % market share in any given month. Winnebago falls into the remaining 15% along with their acquisiton of Grand Design, and every other manufacturer including Newmar, Tiffen, even Provost. Add in Outdoors Rv, Northwood, and all the others, they divide up that 15%
That's about what I understand, too, for the total RV market. Winnebago is one of the largest of the others category, maybe #3 overall.
According to rvbusiness.com, for motorized RVs (as opposed to all RVs), during the first half of 2018, Thor had 43% market share, Forest River 23%, and Winnebago was third with 14%.
