Another One Bites The Dust
Zone RV entered administration a couple of days ago.
On Monday morning, December 1 2025, Zone RV entered administration.
No notice. No refusing new orders, or declining payments. No deliveries, even for completed caravans. No payments to suppliers.
And no payouts for 250 employees. Just termination, effective immediately.
‘Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.’
Jim Collins
I worked with Zone RV a couple of years ago. I got tapped to manage a stalled factory fitout. I had to dust off my engineer’s hat for this assignment, and it was fun.
Those 250 employees? I had beers with some of them just a few months ago. No indication of trouble, no inkling that management was struggling to keep the business afloat.
Now their Christmas is less happy than they hoped.
Just last month they advertised for a new CEO. Whoever got that gig must have inherited an irretrievable mess. Or perhaps, at discovering what the situation really was, called in the administrators.
Zone RV was a relatively large local employer here on the Sunshine Coast, not 3 kilometres from my house (in a straight line). It’s going to hurt a lot of people and businesses, not just here on the coast but all around Australia.
I don’t know why I’m writing this
Maybe just to vent at the failure of a business that should have been an exemplar of good manufacturing practice on the coast.
And a business where I was once on the management team.
Zone RV should not have failed
But it did.
If you’re a manager or founder of an existing business, please note this well:
Your business is one link in a supply chain that extends all the way from the mine site (or farm) to the end user. You have clients, suppliers, employees and service professionals who depend on your business’ success.
If your business fails, the chain breaks.
Everyone loses.
Your business is a machine. It takes inputs at one end and outputs products, services and profits out the other. Your job is to maintain that machine and keep it in tune so it continues to deliver.
Because that’s what managing is all about.
Wishing all Zone RV ex-employees the best of luck, and quick success in finding their next role.
