Lazydays RV Center, Inc. - Seffner, Florida, RV and Recreational Vehicles

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Client:	Lazydays RV Center, Inc.
Address:	6130 Lazy Days Boulevard
City:	Seffner	State: Florida	Zip: 33584	Country: USA
Phone:	888-500-5299	Fax: 813-246-4659	Toll Free: 800-282-7800
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Website:	Lazydays RV Center, Inc.
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Description:	The Dream Becomes Reality... Don Wallace is president of the world's largest single-site Recreational Vehicle dealership, Lazydays RV Center located in Seffner, a suburb community of Tampa, Florida. A Tennessee native, Don moved to Florida as a teenager and finished school in Tampa before returning to Tennessee to farm for nearly nine years. Don, who had taken up RV'ing as a family pastime, then returned to Tampa to start a landscape business, but fate intervened. Partly through selling his own RV, Don began to view Recreational Vehicles as a growth industry. He approached his father, H.K., and brother Ron, with the idea of starting an RV dealership. The original business plan was to sell two trailers a month. Don states, "we were lucky in picking the right market area. We had no idea that Tampa was such a great place to go into business. We didn't realize that so many people came down here in the winter and we didn't realize that the local market had never been touched. We just knew that if you worked hard, you'd be successful." The original Lazydays RV Center dealership opened its doors in 1976 and consisted of a mobile home nestled on a 1.75 acre site, two travel trailers in inventory and $500 in capital. At the end of their first year in business they purchased the lot they had been leasing, and the business continued to grow. Obviously, they had sold more than two trailers a month that first year. Lazydays stayed with travel trailers and mini motorhomes until 1981 when they ventured out into Class A's. In 1981 they took on Fleetwood's Pace Arrow product line and that's when the dealership really started to grow. Lazydays went from $13 million in sales in 1980 to $50 million in 1983. The business steadily expanded to encompass 13 acres but quickly outgrew the dealership boundaries with approximately 160 employees, 44 service bays and hundreds of display units. As the company grew "the dream" emerged. The Dream... Lazydays RV SuperCenter The move to the new SuperCenter took place primarily over Memorial Day weekend (May 1996) and was accomplished without affecting daily business. On Tuesday morning, the 28th of May 1996, the Florida avenue facility was officially history. Lazydays RV SuperCenter has now become a representative of 14 manufacturers with 110 models available at the 150 acre plus central-Florida facility with over 500 employees, 230 service bays and over 1,000 RV displayed in a flowered, park-like setting. This RV SuperCenter concept has been a dream of Don Wallace's for over ten years and today his dream has become the standard for all RV dealerships of the future. The new Lazydays RV SuperCenter features an on-site Cracker Barrel restaurant, a 300 lot RallyPark, master certified RV technicians, Flying J RV Travel Plaza and a 40,000 sq. ft. on-site Camping World for the RV and camping enthusiast. Don Wallace has worked hard in creating "Florida's Newest Tourist Attraction" and attributes the company's continued success to unsurpassed customer service and satisfaction.