Winnebago Industries was born in 1958, when a group of local businesses, worried about Iowa’s depressed farm economy, persuaded Modernistic Industries of California to build a travel-trailer factory in Forest City. Local businessmen soon bought the factory and, in 1960, named it Winnebago Industries, after the county in which it was located. Since 1966, when the company started making motor homes, the name Winnebago has become synonymous with "motor home."
The 200-acre factory includes the main assembly areas (which you'll see on the tour), metal stamping division, plastics facility, sawmill and cabinet shop, and sewing and design departments. |