tvmotorsports
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BREAKING NEWS
Warmoth: Weekend Warrior Liquidating Assets
Bob Ashley
RV Business
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Weekend Warrior Trailers Inc., the Perris, Calif., manufacturer that led the boom in sport utility RVs (SURVs) over the last decade, has ceased operations.
Given the company's production line closures and related layoffs in recent weeks, the news comes as no surprise to most in the industry.
“It's not a bankruptcy, but there is an assignee here who will be selling the assets,” Weekend Warrior founder and President Mark Warmoth told RVBusiness. “It's a voluntary deal, but Warrior is going all the way down. We are liquidating the company.”
An auction is expected within the next two months to dispose of Weekend Warrior's equipment, furniture and raw material, Warmoth said.
“We are still here trying to sort things out for customers,” Warmoth said. “The biggest regret is that I'm leaving a whole bunch of customers out there hanging. I hope the dealers will stand up for the customers, but this industry is a little weak on after-sale services.”
Efforts to find a purchaser for the company failed, resulting in Wednesday's (Aug. 13) announcement, Warmoth said.
The auction of assets will be used to pay down first and second mortgages on two Perris factories that Weekend Warrior owns. Two other plants were being leased by the company. Weekend Warrior, founded in 1988, at one time employed about 2,000 people in four plants totaling more than 215,000 square feet of capacity in Perris.
“All-in-all, we did some wonderful stuff in the last 20 years,” said Warmoth, adding that the industry slowdown and internal management errors doomed the company.
“It's a damn shame what's going on in this industry right now,” he added. “I have no regrets at all, except for this short window the industry is in right now. I am in awe of what the current situation is doing to RVs.”
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Malder
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Gale Hawkins
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It is almost like an RV company should be run as two different companies. One on a small scale with low over head and another that has an off and on switch if that was possible.
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onearmyrider
GA
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Wow, Love my WW sorry to hear it. When I was stationed in SOCAL they were number One! It sucks to see a sad ending like this.
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viejo loco
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"I hope the dealers will stand up for the customers, but this industry is a little weak on after-sale services.”
That has to be the understatement of the year.
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Blackdiamond
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I was there this afternoon looking at the left over inventory to see if there was something that would work for me.
It was sad, like a ghost town compared to the hustle and bustle that I saw 3 years ago when I took the trailer in for service. 4 cars in the parking lot and everything all fenced off and a security guard sitting in his car. It really is too bad.
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Roo
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It still Floors me that one of, if not THE, most sought after touhaulers is no more.
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Laura-N-Sasha
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Mark Warmoth wrote:
I hope the dealers will stand up for the customers, but this industry is a little weak on after-sale services.”
Pot calling kettle Black!
After-sale services are typically needed for maintenance and regular wear-and-tear issues, not for fixing flawed designs or fixing what should have been built right the first time at the factory!!!
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WhitehouseLV
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Roo wrote:It still Floors me that one of, if not THE, most sought after touhaulers is no more.
me too. It will be different not having WW. I think it will be even more awkward for those that live in the Southwest part of the country. When we lived in Vegas it seemed 1/3 THs was a WW. They were everywhere.
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BIGDADDY650R
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If the industry is in such bad shape, why is all of the other RV companys still afloat??????
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