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After a short summer break, Caravanning News is planning to ramp up coverage next week for the winter season. Editor Chris Gosling said, “We’ve had some very difficult choices to make over this summer, especially with some technolgy issues causing grief, which we’ve just resolved.” “We’ve also had some very serious news just arrive about online...
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The Caravan Channel, Britain and Europe’s premier broadcast and online TV programme about caravans, motorhomes and caravanning, and operator of what is probably the largest resource of outdoor video content on the Caravan Channel website, has been made a YouTube partner. This means that the video site will now host much longer video clips, including...
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Ocean Media Group has announced the launch of a new three-day consumer show – The Outdoor Leisure Show, 25 – 27 February 2011, which will run alongside the successful and popular Boat & Caravan Show (22 – 27 February), which attracted over 85,000 visitors last year. The new show is targeted at individuals, groups and...
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Updated and amended 5th July, 2010. In response to a surge in caravan sales during the recession and international travel chaos prompting people to stay closer to home, Confused.com has introduced a new comparison tool for touring and static caravans that mirrors its motor and home insurance products. The company says that the UK has...
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Finance specialist GE Capital announced that it agreed to provide Swift Group Ltd, the UK’s leading manufacturer of caravans, motorhomes and holiday homes, with a distribution finance facility that will provide the company with an estimated £30 million of dealer stocking funds in 2010. The agreement generates tangible benefits for both Swift and...
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Up to today, The Caravan Channel’s YouTube channel has recorded 400,000 hits over the total of 157 video clips currently online. The first clip the programme sent to YouTube was “Clarkson’s Caravan”, uploaded back in March 2007. Until later in 2008, most of the programme’s clips were still loaded onto it’s own webserver, where recorded...
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A new caravan sales company with nearly 40 years experience in the industry is launched today. Formerly part of the Midlands’ largest caravan retailer, Broad Lane Leisure, the group’s Daventry branch has split away to form Venture Caravans. It will continue to operate on its site on the A5 at Daventry, next to the...
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The Caravan Channel’s new weekly format is starting to get improving results, says production company Serious Leisure TV. “We’ve had a great deal of feedback from viewers, and will start promoting the online weekly in our main satellite TV shows on Sky 216 and sky 166/Freesat,” said producer Giles Meehan. “The weekly show will have...
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The value of attending motorhome and leisure shows has been driven home to the Freeborn Motorhomes and Romahome team in a big way this year. After attending their sixth event when they pitched up at Stratford last weekend for The Motorhome Show, James Saint, newly promoted to director from general manager at Freeborn Motorhomes, is...
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When Derbyshire Caravanning enthusiast Sue Coleman saw an advert in her local evening paper for a competition from a local company seeking new ideas and inventions to make Camping & Caravanning easier, she would never had dreamt that her entry would not only win her a £500 cash prize, but the product has now...
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