ELKHART — Thor Industries announced a series of organizational changes late Friday at Keystone RV Company, Dutchmen Manufacturing and CrossRoads RV.
As part of the organizational changes, Ryan Juday will become president of CrossRoads RV, assuming responsibility for all of CrossRoads’ operations in Topeka, Ind.
Juday, a 14-year Keystone RV sales veteran, most recently served as group general manager for the Fuzion, Sprinter and Springdale brands. Juday will be supported by the key members of Keystone’s operations team to foster improvements in manufacturing operations, quality and product development at CrossRoads.
I have a bad feeling about this....... Although I have NO personal dealings with Keystone , I have several good friends that absolutely HATE dealing with them ..
I really hope they prove me wrong....
I admit I had good luck with my Keystone products (Montana), and what I really liked was that they weren't married to Lippert and weren't afraid to drop them and go look for a competitor product when they weren't satisfied with the quality (i.e. Mor-Ryde, Dexter, etc.). I don't necessarily like where they took Montana (definitely middle of the row).,
However, Keystone is big, and I have no experience or feedback from the Fusion, Sprinter, Springdale product. I'm a little concerned that a tin sided RV company management team is here to fix quality on a luxury RV line. Would have much rather heard the Teton, or DRV Manager was coming over. About the first time I see a "flat back" Redwood on the line up with a rear fiberglass cap as an option, I'm moving on 🙂
As long as they don't mess with the relationship between us and Christian... that is working out fantastic and should not go away. She gets us!!!!
On edit -
I agree with Brad ,perhaps my feelings are because a management team of low/middle end line will soon be telling the owners of HIGH END units what is best for them and their units..?
AND - - - That is exactly why and how Grand Design was started... The 3 who started it were Keystone executives and did not like the way the direction that Keystone was heading...
Should I understand Jim Lazzarino is no longer there?
Negative, Jim is GM of Redwood, this thread refers to Andy Cripe who was President of Crossroads/Redwood and it was his position that was replaced.
Here is a link to the entire article that appeared in The Elkhart Truth recently.
http://www.elkharttruth.com/news/2016/02/06/Elkhart-s-Thor-Industries-makes-personnel-moves.html
Chris
Nope, Jim is still the GM of Redwood, and the Regional Sale's managers are the same as well.
And I'm still here too. 🙂
Will let you guys know if there anything changes
(or, you might find out before me. I've learned to NEVER be surprised by the way news travels in the RV world ;-).
