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138 139 “W e’re the largest fami- ly-owned RV group in the country,” declares Loren Baidas, President of General RV Center, the award-winning company that sells and services motorhomes and travel trailers from its eleven locations in six states.“My grandfather started the business in 1962.He had owned a number of gas sta- tions and decided, after taking his family on a vacation, that RVing was something that was going to be around for a long time.He decided to get out of the gas stations and start selling RVs. It start- ed from one location and we’re now up to eleven and growing.” Today, General RV Center has 1,300 employ- ees working out of its six stores in Michigan, one in Ohio, one in Illinois, one in Utah, and two in Florida. Among them, they sell over 15,000 new and used RVs a year. And, unlike many other RV dealerships, countrywide, all of the company’s dealerships were built from GENERAL RV CENTER GROWINGWIDE AND DEEP GENERAL CENTER AT A GLANCE GENERAL RV CENTER WHAT: A seller and servicer of motorhomes and travel trailers WHERE: Wixom, Michigan WEBSITE: www.generalrv.com