CVCO

Cavco Industries, Inc.

A maker of factory-built homes, including manufactured houses, modular homes, park model RVs, and vacation cabins, sold across the US through retailers, builders, and its own stores. The company was born in 1965 when Al Ghelfi started building recreational truck campers out of his father's hardware store lumber yard in Phoenix, Arizona; after gasoline shortages in the 1970s sank the camper business, he pivoted to building mobile homes instead. Its earliest name, Roadrunner Manufacturing, was changed to Cavalier before the Cavco brand took over.