Company Profile for Featherlite, Inc.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) Featherlite, Inc. (Nasdaq:FTHR FTHR Farther FTHR Full Throttle Hot Rod (magazine) ) is a leader in designing, manufacturing, and marketing high quality aluminum SPECIALTY TRAILERS (which include horse, livestock, car, recreational, utility and commercial trailers, as well as custom race car transporters and mobile marketing trailers) and LUXURY MOTORCOACHES. Since it was founded thirty years ago, Featherlite has grown into a strategically diversified company with nearly $200 million annually in sales in the U.S. and Canada. In 2003, the Company employed over 1,100 people in facilities with nearly half-million square feet of space. The Company manufactures on average 10,000 trailers on an annual basis. Featherlite produces yearly as many as 100 custom semi-trailers, ranging from high-tech office units to racecar transporters to mobile training complexes to telecommunications and multi-media centers to display to mobile marketing units. Featherlite has manufactured hundreds of custom semi-trailers, primarily for Fortune 500 companies, major organizations and the nation's leading racing teams. The Company also builds command center, disaster and hazardous materials management and training trailers for firefighting and law enforcement organizations. Featherlite Luxury Coaches, headquartered in Sanford, Florida, is a noted product innovator and the largest Prevost conversion company in the United States. It markets its product line to affluent recreational travelers, entrepreneurs, touring performers, athletes, business organizations and celebrities in the motorsports and entertainment industries. The Featherlite(R) brand is among the top names in the trailer and coach industries and Featherlite sponsorships include NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. , Champ Car, National Hot Rod Association
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) (NHRA), Indy Racing League The Indy Racing League, better known as IRL, is the sanctioning body of a predominantly American based open-wheel racing series. The League consists of two series, the premiere IndyCar Series , Automobile Racing Club of America Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) is an auto racing sanctioning body in the United States founded in 1953 by John Marcum. The current president of ARCA is Ron Drager. , American Speed Association The American Speed Association (ASA) was a sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States from 1968 until its demise in 2004 due to financial problems. The Association was based in Pendleton, Indiana. , The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana (a separate town completely surrounded by Indianapolis) in the United States, is the second-oldest , Speedway Motor Corporation's five race tracks, World of Outlaws The World of Outlaws (often abbreviated WoO) is an American motorsports sanctioning body. The body sanctions two major national touring series. It is best known for sanctioning a national tour of sprint cars. and Professional Sportscar Racing. Featherlite also sponsors numerous equine, recreational and livestock organizations. -0-
Company: Featherlite, Inc.
Headquarters Address: Highway 63 & 9
Cresco, IA 52136
Main Telephone: 563-547-6000
Website: www.fthr.com
Ticker: FTHR(NASDAQ)
Type of Organization: Public
Industry: Manufacturing
Key Executives: CEO: Conrad Clement
CFO: Jeffery Mason
Public Relations
Contact: John Hall
Phone: 563-547-6000
Email: jhall@fthr.com
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