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This person was named President - RV in October 2025 and is in some way related to Matt Filer's predecessor.
Who is Charles Roeder?
This person served as the Company's CFO until 2023 and is now the President of the Marine Pillar.
Who is Jake Petkovich?
This is the common term for a 3-wheeled or 4-wheeled vehicle designed for off-road use.
What is an ATV?
This audit engagement team member just put (is putting) their house on the market.
Who is Lauren Kaiser?
The current CFO worked at this company for over 10 years prior to joining Patrick.
What is Caterpillar?
This Berkshire Hathaway-owned RV manufacturer includes brands such as Coachmen, Rockwood, and Grand Design.
What is Forest River?
Mercury Marine and Boston Whaler are brands owned by this major marine company and Chicago office audit client.
What is Brunswick Corporation?
Common nick-name for Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
What is "hogs"?
Builders track this to measure newly started residential construction projects.
What are housing starts?
This audit engagement team member won the regional spelling bee championship in the fifth greade with the word “conscientious.”
Who is Ody Ochoa?
OEMs often watch this channel metric closely because elevated levels can signal future production slowdowns and dealer discounting pressure.
What are dealer inventory levels?
This term refers to the maximum width of a boat.
What is the beam?
Polaris Industries changed its corporate name to this in 2019 to reflect its expansion beyond traditional manufacturing.
What is Polaris Inc.?
This economic factor strongly affects RV financing, boat purchases, and home affordability by changing monthly borrowing costs.
What are interest rates?
This engagement team member used to love camping so much that they opened all of their birthday presents in a tent at their 6th birthday party.
Who is Kayla Weinzimmer?
In RV lingo, this term describes a vehicle towed behind a motorhome.
What is a "toad"?
This U.S. company is widely recognized as the largest recreational boat and yacht retailer, with a large footprint in both sales and marina operations.
What is MarineMax?
After their luggage was lost on a ski trip, this audit engagement team had to wear sweatshirts to complete their virtual interview with Deloitte.
Who is Liz Quarin?
This market dynamic occurs when existing homeowners are reluctant to sell because their current mortgage rate is well below prevailing rates.
What are interest rates?
This winery is owned by the family of Brittany Muir, SVP - Powersports and Housing.
What is Fruit Hills Winery?
Roughly this percentage of the 11.2 million RV-owning households in America live in them full-time.
What is 1.5% I will accept 1-3% for good effort.
This wholesale-to-retail imbalance can force discounting, pressure dealer margins, and eventually trigger production cuts by manufacturers.
What is channel stuffing?
While they are known for ATVs and snowmobiles, in 2011, Polaris acquired this motorcycle company.
What is Indian Motorcycle?
This mortgage-backed market participant buys loans from originators, helping replenish capital for new lending.
What is the secondary mortgage market? (Accept: Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac role in buying mortgages)
This team member won't be drinking at happy hour later or any time soon.
Who is Kayla Weinzimmer?