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Article: At a crossroads.(Business)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 11, 2009
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Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard
JUNCTION CITY - In 1968, four friends pooled their wealth - about $20,000 in cash, two pickup trucks and a prototype camper - and started Caribou Manufacturing Co.
The company started out building campers of aluminum and wood that fit on the back of pickup trucks. A few years later, they bought a van chassis and built an integrated camper on the back, sold under a new brand: Monaco.
After one of the partners, Bob Lee, was ousted by the others, he formed his own company, which he dubbed Country Camper, the name lifted from a Barbie doll play set. He later changed the name to Country Coach.
Such ...
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