Record RV sales

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AUSTRALIAN caravan manufacturers are cock-a-hoop after new figures revealed record business for the once-struggling industry.

Production of Australian-made caravans and RVs reached a 30-year high, with over 21,000 new units hitting Australia's roads last year.

The news is in stark contract to 2009 when the industry suffered a worrying slump following the global economic downturn, with Perth-based Fleetwood Corporation – manufacturers of the popular Windsor and Coromal range of caravans – slashing its caravan production by half.

Several Australian producers of top quality caravans, including Boroma and Golf, went belly-up and a major importer of a popular range of European RVs pulled down the shutters after falling sales sent profits spiralling.

But new Recreational Vehicle Manufacturers Association of Australia (RVMAA) figures show 21,164 caravans and RVs rolled off Australian production lines in 2010.

Production was 32 percent up on 2009, and a delighted RVMAA president Richard Raven said this was an all-time record for caravans and RVs built for leisure use.
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