The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas named Gary Briggs of Wayzata Marine as its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Recognizing Briggs at the MRAA Opening Awards Ceremony at its annual conference last month, MRAA celebrated his numerous accomplishments in the marine industry over the last 51 years. Briggs opened a start-up selling and servicing […]
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Volvo Penta named first MRAA, Dealer Week Strategic Partner
Volvo Penta, other Strategic Partners, will participate in dialog to help set MRAA initiatives and priorities. Volvo Penta has signed on as the Marine Retailers Association of the Americas’ first Strategic Partner, the highest level of MRAA Partner Membership and support for Dealer Week, MRAA’s Annual Conference & Expo. Celebrating its 43rd annual conference […]
Recreation Leaders Meet with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Highlight Recreation Opportunities
Recreation Leaders, including MRAA’s Board President Joe Hoffmaster, met with Secretary Sonny Perdue, Under Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment Jim Hubbard and other key officials in order to highlight recreation opportunities for 2019. The group noted the importance of national forests to many recreational activities, and highlighted the world-class experiences provided to anglers […]
How the Shutdown is Hurting Recreational Boating and the Outdoor Economy
In a recent Op-Ed published by The Hill, Outdoor Recreation Roundtable’s Executive Director Jessica Wahl described the impact that the partial government shutdown is having on the outdoor recreation community. The outdoor recreation community is unified in its message to Congress and the administration to end this shutdown immediately so federal workers, small businesses, rural […]
Priority One’s Growing Equipment Finance Division Increases Staff
Priority One Financial Services, Inc., the industry’s oldest and largest F&I outsourcing provider, adds Kristopher Dobrowski and Mark Schiller to its equipment finance division. This division is dedicated to helping both dealers’ and their customers with their commercial finance and leasing needs. These include financing of dealership equipment (service trucks, forklifts, repair lifts), heavy marina […]
MRAA Announces 2018 Great Dealerships To Work For
The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas named the marine industry’s innaugural Great Dealerships to Work For, recognizing 20 boat dealers at an awards program last month and through a publication released today. The 20 dealerships qualified for recognition through the results of the Marine Industry Certified Dealership Program’s annual Employee Satisfaction Survey. This survey, […]
BoatPAC Holds Fourth Consecutive Event at MDCE
BoatPAC held a reception during the Marine Dealers Conference and Expo in Orlando, Florida on Monday, December 10th, raising almost $5000. BoatPAC is the federal political action committee of NMMA and the MRAA, which supports the election of candidates to the U.S. Congress who are strong advocates for recreational boating. MRAA and NMMA thanks the […]
Florida Dealers: Has Your Business Been Affected by Algae Blooms?
If your dealership has been affected by the devastating red tide algal blooms plaguing South Florida, you may be eligible for a low-interest Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL)s from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). SBA Administrator Linda McMahon made the loans available in response to a letter from Gov. Rick Scott on Aug. 21, […]
President Trump Signs the Modern Fish Act
The recreational fishing and boating community is celebrating the enactment of the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2018 (Modern Fish Act), which was signed into law by President Trump December 31. The Modern Fish Act finally recognizes in federal law the differences between recreational and commercial fishing and adds more appropriate management tools for […]
U.S. House Passes Modern Fish Act
First-Ever Sportfishing-Focused Legislation to Pass Congress Heads to President’s Desk Washington, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives passed S.1520, the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2017 (Modern Fish Act). Today’s vote was the final step toward sending the landmark legislation to the President’s desk after it passed the Senate on December 17. […]
