The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas is undergoing sweeping changes and the results are being recognized by retailers around the U.S. and Canada. “Our non-group-member roster has increased 92 percent,” MRAA president Matt Gruhn says, “and that’s just since February. We’re aggressively expanding…” Read more.

Marge Eckenroad, executive administrator with the Marine Retailers Association of the Americas, is retiring after 36 years with the association.  She began working with the MRAA in 1976 on a part-time basis and joined full time in 1989. She worked with the leadership of the association throughout her career, and alongside immediate past president Phil […]

The latest educational conference for the marine industry, an ongoing series of regional events called Marine Retail University, came together when the Marine Retailers Association of the Americas and Dominion Marine Media realized they were both looking to offer dealers more opportunities to learn. For 17 years, Dominion Marine Media has successfully hosted Yacht Brokerage […]

The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas announced that Dominion Marine Media renewed its support of the association as a partner member and that the MRAA is partnering with Priority One Financial Services to create a new member benefit for its Rewards Program.   Read the full article.

The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas announced that the MRAA Rewards Insurance Program, available through Norman-Spencer Marine Insurance Services to MRAA members, was rolled out nationwide March 1. The MRAA Rewards coverage, which is part of the agency’s AquaPac program, offers consumers broad, affordable insurance coverage that accommodates the full spectrum of boats … […]

The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas today introduced an upgraded website that it says offers “an entirely new way of conducting business.” “To put it simply, this new website provides us the platform to reinvent the way we do business,” Matt Gruhn, president of the MRAA, said in a statement. “It may seem a […]

The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas unveiled a new website, and Dominion Marine Media reported significant growth in website visitors. The MRAA launched a new website that it said will change the way the group and its members conduct business. Read more…

The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas announced a new partnership today with TSYS Merchant Solutions, which will provide MRAA members with preferred pricing on credit card processing, check guarantee and conversion, mobile payment solutions and gift card processing. TSYS Merchant Solutions has been in its industry for 55 years and … Read more.

MRAA Rewards members will have access to additional benefits through an expanded partnership between the Marine Retailers Association of the Americas and Spader Business Management. The new relationship between the two groups will provide MRAA Rewards members with discounted pricing on two of Spader Business Management’s new products: Profit Production Tools & Resources and its […]

For a day and a half in December, an exceptional group of marine industry leaders and visionaries met at a Chicago-area hotel to discuss the future of recreational boating and debate how best to create a foundation to ensure its success for the next decade and beyond. The Recreational Boating Stakeholder Growth Summit — hosted […]