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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Jayco, Inc page on 29 March 2020, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Jayco, Inc., a subsidiary of Thor Industries, is an American manufacturer of recreation vehicles. The company manufactures fold-down (also called "pop-up") camping trailers, conventional travel trailers, toy haulers, fifth-wheel travel trailers, and motorhomes (Class A and C). Jayco is based in Middlebury, Indiana, and about three-quarters of its 3,200-person workforce is from the Amish and Mennonite communities of Indiana.
The company was founded in 1968 by Lloyd and Bertha Bontrager. Bontrager developed a trailer fold-down system in 1967 and started the business of making travel trailers in two chicken houses and a barn. In the first year of operations the company sold 132 trailers, and by the end of 1968 it had 15 employees. The company continued to grow and in 1970 built another plant in Harper, Kansas.
On Easter Sunday, 1985, Lloyd Bontrager was killed when his small airplane crashed in the vicinity of Muncie, Indiana. His wife Bertha became Chairman of the Board at Jayco, and later her sons Wilbur and Derald assumed leadership roles within the company. Currently, Derald Bontrager is President and CEO.
In addition to the Jayco brand, Jayco acquired Entegra Coach in 2008, Starcraft RV in 1991 and Highland Ridge in 2014. Jayco currently manufactures about 50,000 RVs per year, and reached the 1 millionth manufactured RV milestone in April 2016.
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| 6 January 2020 | Jayco, Inc, Receipt of Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance | Federal Register: NHTSA (Otto G. Matheke III) |
| 19 April 2023 | Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 125, Notification of Proposed Production Activity; Jayco, Inc.; (Motorhomes); Middlebury, Indiana The proposed finished products are motorhomes (duty rate 2.5%). The proposed foreign-status materials and components include vans and cab chassis (duty rate ranges from 4.0% to 25.0%). | Federal Register Notice  (text)Agency: Foreign-Trade Zones Board Byline: Elizabeth Whiteman Topic: Jayco |
| 11 August 2023 | Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 125; Authorization of Production Activity; Jayco, Inc.; (Motorhomes); Middlebury, Indiana The notification was processed in accordance with the regulations of the FTZ Board, including notice in the Federal Register inviting public comment. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Foreign-Trade Zones Board Byline: Elizabeth Whiteman Topic: Jayco |