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Quite good overall. Product lines generally have a good reputation, untainted by any substantial consumer resentment, but the company itself is still recovering from strategic blunders during the 90s. Buyers can be assured of good warranty work. Champion's management style is to give the managers of its home brands a lot of autonomy.
Like Clayton Homes, Champion is a truly national company, solid management, a strong manufacturing team ensures consistent construction standards company-wide. Has a few plants producing low end homes, but most others produce mid-range offerings. In the go-go 90s mistakenly bought up scores of retail dealerships, way overpaying for them; the strategy failed, leaving a huge debt burden. The directors took charge, bought in a new CEO who cut the number of plants nearly in half. Stability has returned, along with Wall Street's confidence in Champion.
- Clayton Homes
- Champion Enterprises
- Fleetwood Enterprises
- Skyline Corporation
- Palm Harbor Homes
- Cavalier Homes
- Patriot Homes
- Southern Energy Homes
- Fairmont Homes
- Horton Homes
- Cavco Industries
- Liberty Homes
- Karsten Homes
- General Manufactured Housing
- Giles Industries
- American Homestar, Corp
- Cappaert Manufactured Housing
- Jacobsen Manufacturing
- Sunshine Homes
- Four Seasons Housing
- Wick Building Systems
- Fuqua Homes
- Pine Grove Manufacturing
- Manufactured Housing Enterprises
- New Era Building Group
Top 25
Redman Manufactured Homes, Moduline Manufactured Homes, Summit Crest Manufactured Homes, Silvercrest Manufactured Homes, Atlantic Manufactured Homes, Titan Manufactured Homes, Fortune Manufactured Homes, Commander Manufactured Homes, Dutch Manufactured Homes, Gateway Manufactured Homes, Advantage Homes, Homes of Legend, Homes of Merit, Chandeleur Manufactured Homes, Champion Homebuilders.
The entire market, top to bottom, but mostly mid-range
Description: Before Clayton Homes' leap, Champion was the industry's 800 lb. gorilla - 16 home brands, hundreds of models, 40-50 factories coast to coast, nearly a dozen companies acquired during the 1990s. Product lines are widely dispersed in markets, in complexity, and in quality. Its upscale brand, Silvercrest, acquired in early 90s, remains the Mercedes of the Manufactured Home industry, still enjoys great prestige.
The Grissim Report - 2005
Rating the Top 25 Manufactured Home Builders
#2 Champion Enterprises (publicly held)
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Auburn Hills, Michigan
21,968
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