A major Australian caravan manufacturer has entered administration after more than two decades in business, blaming growing competition from cheaper imports and copycat products.<\/p>\n
Australian Off Road confirmed on Tuesday that administrators had been appointed to the business, bringing uncertainty over the future of the company after 26 years of operation.<\/p>\n
The Queensland company, based in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, had about 100 employees before entering administration.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n The company, which grew from a one-man operation into an award-winning national manufacturer, pointed to mounting pressures across the caravan industry.<\/p>\n General manager Russell Evans said increasingly fierce competition had made it difficult for the Australian manufacturer to continue operating as it had previously.<\/p>\n In a lengthy statement announcing the decision, Mr Evans blamed \u201cintensifying product copying\u201d and an influx of \u201cChinese imports\u201d among the challenges facing the business.<\/p>\n He said those pressures had made it \u201cincreasingly difficult\u201d for Australian Off Road to compete.<\/p>\n The administration marks a dramatic turn for the long-running manufacturer, which had built its business producing Australian-made off-road caravans and campers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major Australian caravan manufacturer has entered administration after more than two decades in business, blaming growing competition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-893159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}