Lancer Camper. Inc Sold Out

travelnutz wrote:
The references to companies moving out of California or elsewhere are almost solely due to the costs incurred by having your company in such state! The Business Climate! Has absolutely nothing to do with: "gross domestic product per capita"

The point being that people have been complaining about the business climate in California for at least 40 years. Yet there are more businesses in California than ever, that are more profitable than ever. From your assessment I'd have thought they would have all left long ago, and California would look more like - well, Michigan or Kentucky.

An RV manufacturer like Lance is pretty basic. Floorspace, materials, labor. There isn't any secret magic in it, no tooling or equipment to speak of, no IP. It would all be in China right now if the transportation costs were lower. The biggest risk to Lance or any other manufacturer is actually forecasting as the market is notoriously fickle. The biggest improvement they could make would be substantially shortening their pipeline, supply chain -> finished product.

My only direct experience with a manufacturer's buyout is the Safari I owned. The year before I bought it, Monaco bought Safari. It wasn't the same product. Then Monaco went Tango Uniform. And they were operating in the business friendly climate of central Oregon.

Anyone know the percent of lance tc vs lance towables sold each year?

sljohnson1938,

CED - Committee for Economic Development

SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Kayteg1 wrote:
Would you stop clowning around on rv forum? :p

Maybe ... ;)

jimh425 wrote:

Kayteg1 wrote:
Here comes history lesson.

Feel free to go post that at a history instead of rv site. ;)

Would you stop clowning around on rv forum? :p

Kayteg1 wrote:
Here comes history lesson.

Feel free to go post that at a history instead of rv site. ;)

The references to companies moving out of California or elsewhere are almost solely due to the costs incurred by having your company in such state! The Business Climate! Has absolutely nothing to do with: "gross domestic product per capita"

Lance was sold and we will see what happens! I sure agree with "sleepy" as Jack Cole surely deserves a real retirement too that he'd left behind for so many years.

So glad I/we retired 18 years ago and had sold my owned and run engineering company after nearly 40 years. That was 18 woderful years ago of our 57 delightful years of marriage that were the real whipcream and cherries on the cake of a truely wonderful happy relationship and wouldn't trade them for anything!!! I sure do wish Jack the very best of enjoyment and health for years on end!

Here comes history lesson.
Communism was born 100 years ago, the quoted wisdom was born over 400 years ago.

It is not correct to equate a Polish culture with a government credo called communism. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GOVERNMENT BUT RATHER HOW HARD THE POLISH PEOPLE WORK AND CARE ABOUT THEIR WORK.

I am proud of my Polack heritage and work ethic which was instilled upon me by my father and grandfather.

Dziekuje,

The US is not Poland. I don't think the concepts apply here exactly. US has also never been communist. It's not about only the managers and owners in the US. The workers have their own non-forced work ethic.