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WINNEBAGO WINS TOP INDUSTRY
AWARD
Winnebago Industries
has been awarded with the NSW RV Industry’s prestigious RV
Trade Award – The Best of The Best Award, at a glittering
presentation ceremony at the Novotel North Wollongong Grand
Ballroom on July 24, 2008.
In accepting the award from the
CCIA, Ben Binns, Winnebago’s Chief Operating Officer, said
“it is a great honour and a little overwhelming to receive
such an award and it was due to the team effort of the more
than 200 employees employed by Winnebago” Winnebago
Motorhomes are produced at the manufacturing plant at Emu
Plains, west of Sydney.
Earlier in the evening,
Winnebago had been awarded the best trade Motorhome
manufacturing facility in NSW.
Established in 1965, Winnebago
has been producing Motorhomes in Sydney for 43 years.
Surprising to many, Winnebago is a family owned Australian
Company with no connection to the American company of the
same name.
Winnebago produces the largest
range of motorhomes in Australia, all classes and sizes from
7 metres to 12 metres long and for all budgets and takes
great pride that all motorhomes built fully comply with all
of the Federal Governments safety and design regulations.
In an environment where many
manufacturing concerns are leaving Australia for overseas
destinations, Winnebago is expanding its manufacturing
facility at Emu Plains, which currently produces a motorhome
every two hours to maintain the around 40% market share it
currently holds.
The new plant, located adjacent
to the current factory is expected to begin operating early
in September. “This reflects the confidence we have in
Australia’s future” said Mr Binns, ”the new plant will
expand our capability to meet market expectations, after
all, there are a lot of baby boomers out there, and many are
discovering the freedom of seeing Australia in a fully self
contained motorhome”. |
