NTP Distribution Announces Major Distribution Center in Dallas, TX.

NTP Distribution, a leading distributor of over 12,000 in-stock after market RV parts has set their warehouse opening date for April 2, 2007 in Dallas, Texas. “Texas has been a strategic growth goal for us” says NTP President Greg Boyd, “we are all very excited to see this goal become a reality” The new warehouse has been under development for several months and has been modified to meet NTP’s high standards for warehouse efficiency and to continue to meet their 95% unprecedented fill rate.

NTP Distribution will continue to provide exceptional customer service and “The new facility allows dealerships in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana to utilize NTP Distribution’s overnight delivery as well as take advantage of the values that NTP adds to business such as dealer education, inventory management and store merchandising programs with our new SMART team.” states Mark Jenson, Vice President Sales and Marketing.

Josh Clark, Director of Operations for NTP has been coordinating the opening of the new facility. “I am extremely excited to bring our world class service and technology to Texas.” NTP Distribution prides itself on being more than a warehouse holding center, but rather they see themselves as service centers to their customers. “By having our Distribution Centers as service centers our facilities are more flexible and able to respond to the different needs of our customers.” The new Texas DC was engineered and designed with the benefit of lessons learned from working with their three existing DC’s.

As part of the commitment NTP Distribution has to the new Texas market they are hosting their 2008 Dealership Conference in Austin, TX. The 2008 Austin conference is schedule for February 18-22nd 2008. Collette Sanftleben, Marketing Manager for NTP says “we are excited to bring our conference to Texas and feel this will be a great fit for our continued commitment to the Texas DC and our current and new customers. Austin is an incredible city which will have many attractions for our current and new dealers.” The 2008 event will take place at the Austin Convention Center and guests will stay at the plush Austin Hilton directly across from the convention center.

NTP Distribution, a privately held company, is a provider of quality aftermarket products,
parts and accessories for dealers in the recreational vehicle (RV) and hitch and tow industries. The company was founded in 1962 by Wallace J. Lewis as Northwest Trailer Parts. Today the company has over 200 employees, three major warehouses strategically located in the U.S. and two satellite operations in Fresno, California and Edmonds, WA. NTP''s corporate headquarters is located in Wilsonville, OR.

NTP Distribution holds successful Educational Conference in 2007.

Wilsonville, OR (March 7, 2007) NTP Distribution, a leading distributor of over 12,000 after market RV parts has just wrapped up their annual Educational Conference in Phoenix, AZ. This year NTP increased their dealer participation, hosting over 450 dealers and 170 vendors to the event. Collette Sanftleben, Marketing Manager for NTP noted that the attendance and enthusiasm from those at the conference was highly charged. “People were excited about the educational seminars and seem to be looking forward to the opening of our Texas facility.”

This four day event boasted management training seminars including the return of Richard Flint who motivated and engaged dealers attending the training. “NTP is committed to making education at the dealer level a priority at its conference and throughout our business practices” said Mark Jenson, Vice President Sales and Marketing at NTP. Along with Richard Flint, NTP hosted Jan Kelly who focused on selling aftermarket parts during the F&I process and Gaylon Hughes, who heads up the RV Parts Academy, focused on increasing customer relationships through aftermarket parts sales.
In addition to the management training seminars, NTP offered twenty two (22) vendor product training sessions held on Tuesday. These workshops enabled dealers to learn more about products relevant to their business and also had a chance for question and answers from the vendors.

Along with the education platform, NTP also expanded their show floor hours. They hosted a “sneak preview” on Tuesday night allowing both dealers and vendors to mingle prior to the official opening of the show. “I enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere during this preview” states one happy dealer. The show floor was open for two full days on Wednesday and Thursday. The floor also housed a SMART store. This was an area where dealers could see a fully set store design carrying a large assortment of products. NTP’s dedicated SMART team was on hand to answer any questions regarding merchandising, products, and to set up personalized SMART stores for the dealers.

NTP Distribution likes to insert fun wherever they can. This proves true with their employees and dealers as they hosted an outstanding “Past, Present, and Future” gala event the last night of the conference. Dealers, vendors, and NTP staff dressed up in their favorite era. “There were people from the 20’s to the future at the gala” said Sanftleben. “It was a perfect closing to an incredible show. And we are now gearing up for our 2008 conference in Austin, Texas”. Dealers and vendors alike are anticipating the conference held February 18-22nd 2008 “Austin will provide an exciting location with lots of activities, Austin is known as the live music capital of the world and will also provide our dealers and vendors with incredible food, sites, and entertainment” stated Sanftleben. Additionally, NTP is already scouting out exceptional speakers for their educational seminars.

NTP Distribution, a privately held company, is a provider of quality aftermarket products, parts and accessories for dealers in the recreational vehicle (RV) and hitch and tow industries. The company was founded in 1962 by Wallace J. Lewis as Northwest Trailer Parts. Today the company has over 200 employees, three major warehouses strategically located in the U.S. and two satellite operations in Fresno, CA and Edmonds, WA. NTP’s corporate headquarters is located in Wilsonville, OR.

NTP Distribution Announces a Major Distribution Center to open in Dallas, Texas early spring 2007.

Wilsonville, Oregon (November 27, 2006) – NTP Distribution, a leading distributor of over 12,000 in-stock after market RV parts is coming to Texas. “Texas has been our goal for several years” says NTP President Greg Boyd, “Texas has been on our radar, but we wanted to make sure we could service our customers in the best manner possible by providing the NTP quality consultative distribution to our dealers. When we enter into a new market, we take a holistic approach, making sure that we have all elements in place to satisfy our customer’s needs.” The expected opening of the Dallas distribution center is set for spring 2007.

NTP Distribution currently has three strategic distribution centers located in Wilsonville, Oregon, Ontario, California, and Elkhart, Indiana. The new Texas warehouse will service NTP customers as well as LINK Towing a subsidiary of NTP Distribution which caters to the hitch and towing trade. “The new facility allows dealerships in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana to utilize NTP Distribution’s overnight delivery as well as take advantage of our remarkable store merchandising programs.” says Mark Jenson, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “The opening of a Texas facility for NTP Distribution follows 10 years of solid aggressive growth, following the growth trends of the RV industry.”

NTP Distribution is at an average 95% fill rate accuracy level and a leader with their warehouse inventory management. “NTP Distribution has state of the art warehousing which allows our team to accurately pick orders and ship them to our dealers from their shipping distribution center in remarkable time.” states Mark Jenson. “Texas will be held to the same standards that our three other DC’s are at, where shipping will occur from the customers shipping DC, we try to avoid split ships whenever possible.” quotes Boyd, “and it is through this that we hold ourselves to a high standard of that 95% shipping fill rate.”

As part of the commitment NTP Distribution has to the new Texas market they announced the plans for their annual Dealership Conference to be held in Austin, TX February of 2008. Collette Sanftleben, Marketing Manager for NTP replied that “we are excited to bring our conference to Texas and feel this will be a great fit for our continued commitment to the Texas DC and our current and new customers. Austin is an incredible city which will have many attractions for our current and new dealers.” The 2008 event will take place at the Austin Convention Center and guests will stay at the plush Austin Hilton directly across from the convention center. For 2007, NTP will be holding their conference in February in Phoenix, AZ.

OPEN HOUSE!

Wilsonville , OR. (June 15, 2006) –- NTP Distribution (NTP), a leading wholesale supplier of aftermarket RV products and towing parts and accessories, celebrated the official opening of its new 110,000 square foot Wilsonville Headquarters and Distribution Center on June 15, 2006 .

NTP Distribution's plan to build its strength in strategically sound markets such as the Southeast and Midwest is further set in stone by the building of this state-of-the-art 8.5 Million dollar facility. The project poises the company for growth projected to occur within the next 10 years.

The day of celebration started with an official ribbon cutting by the Steering Committee members as well as company principals and was soon followed by the annual Employee Appreciation Day and BBQ.

By mid-day NTP welcomed dealers, vendors, family and friends to view and tour the new facility with events and tours lasting until early evening. The successful event was pulled together by staff from each department, headed by Cathy Sutton, Sales Administrator.

NTP Show in Phoenix a Success.

It was sunny skies outside and sunny outlooks inside for RV aftermarket retailers and other attendees at the recent NTP Distribution show in Phoenix.

The three-day show in late February drew about 450 dealers from across the country, according to Collette Sanftleben, Marketing Manager for NTP. This year’s registration numbers exceeded the company’s pre-registration goal and that NTP continued to receive registrations at the show.

This year’s NTP show featured about 170 exhibitors, up from roughly 150 the previous year. Notably, showroom floor space for this year’s show increased to 70,000 square feet, up from about 55,000 square feet at the 2005 show. David Robinson, Director of Vendor Relations said NTP added a number of vendors at this year’s show, including Hydralift, maker of a hydraulic motorcycle lift; Sunforce, which manufactures a wind generator product; and JT RV Products, maker of the StrongArm Stabilizer Jack.

NTP made a number of changes to this year’s show, including expanded show floor hours. “This year, our management seminars were more tightly focused on fundamental parts and service issues. To account for more show hours, we have tightened the time on our vendor workshops to answer the need for more show floor hours,” according to Mark Jenson, Vice President – Sales & Marketing at NTP.

NTP is committed to making education at the dealer level a priority at its shows, Jenson said, who noted the company made a $20,000 pledge to the RVDA’s RV Learning Center at the show. Ronnie Hepp was there on behalf of RVDA to accept the pledge during the awards banquet Wednesday evening at the Hyatt.

“This is one thing we think makes our event stand out is because our intent is to focus is more educational in nature and less pressured for sales,” he said. “Our long-term goal is to truly make it a must-attend event by offering key and timely information to our dealers that will help them be more successful, presentable and professional.

Dealers responded favorably to the show, based upon initial survey responses. Sanftleben said dealers rated the show a 4.3 on a 5-point scale for factors such as the Phoenix location, workshops, exhibit floor and conference events.

NTP is already starting to make preparations for its 2007 show, which is scheduled for late February at the newly built Phoenix Convention Plaza, across

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