RV dealership to lay off 76, shutter Tampa headquarters

Lazydays RV, in conjunction with an announcement earlier this week that it signed a letter of intent to be sold, is laying off 76 employees and shuttering its headquarters in Tampa. 

The layoffs at the RV dealership, expected to take place on or around Nov. 16, were announced Tuesday and detailed in a federally-required Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act letter filed with the state. The titles listed in the layoffs include Lazydays’ chief operations officer, chief technology officer and chief financial officer, in addition to the firm’s senior human resources director. The title of CEO, Ron Fleming, is also on the list.

Jacksonville family-operated RV dealership chain Campers Inn Holding Corp. is the potential buyer of Lazydays. The companies, in a joint statement, announced Campers Inn had a letter of intent to purchase most of Lazydays’ assets for $30 million. The offer comes two years after Lazydays, boosted by pandemic travel trends, had a three-year run of surpassing $1 billion in sales.

Founded in 1976, Lazydays posted $1.23 billion in revenue in 2021 and $1.32 billion in 2022. Revenue slipped to $1.08 billion in 2023 and $871.56 million last year, down 19.5%. The slide in sales came with quarterly and annual losses, and that was followed by leadership changes; CEO John North resigned in September 2024 and was replaced by Fleming, a Lazydays veteran who held executive roles at the company for 11 years until his retirement in 2023.

The WARN letter Lazydays filed states that while “Campers Inn is expected to offer employment to most employees at certain dealerships,” that does not include the corporate headquarters at 4042 Park Oaks Blvd. “As a result, we plan to shut down the corporate headquarters, as well as any facilities not acquired by Campers Inn, in connection with the closing of the transaction. 

The Campers Inn offer includes parts equipment and more, but does not include all the inventory or real estate. Campers Inn, according to public filings, will “continue to operate, and assume underlying leases” Lazydays operates in six locations. Campers Inn says its “assessing whether to operate the other locations.”

The letter of intent states that the transactions may close in a series of site-by-site closings if mutually agreed by the parties, and that Campers Inn’s target final closing date is before Thanksgiving and no later than Dec. 1. 

The deal would expand Campers Inn RV's nationwide presence to 48 dealership locations across 22 states, and would provide Campers Inn RV with its first entry into Tennessee, Colorado, and Utah. Lazydays' Tampa-area dealership in Seffner is expected to operate under the name Lazydays by Campers Inn RV.