A six-week production shutdown last spring that was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has given way to one of the most prosperous periods in Airstream’s history, according to the company.
Jay Cullis, content manager at Airstream, was the featured speaker during the Great Miami Riverway’s Riverway Conversations webinar on Tuesday. He discussed the company’s history and its current outlook, which has been boosted by people’s desire to get outdoors and avoid crowds during the pandemic.
“You won’t get your Airstream for almost a year in some cases,” Cullis said. “We have about a year’s backlog of orders, which is just bonkers.”
When the pandemic began to grip the United States, Airstream furloughed all of the approximately 800 production workers at its Jackson Center, Ohio factory. Since then, all of the employees who wanted to return to work have returned.
“We went from just incredible revenue to zero dollars overnight,” Cullis said. “We shut down the factory on March 17; we were shut for about six weeks with no production.
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