The company operates manufacturing facilities in Spokane Midway, Ark. Retail prices for the trailers range from $425 to $10,000. Currently, it employs about 300 people nationwide, about half of whom work here.ĮZ Loader makes 250 boat-trailer models, ranging from models with 600-pound capacity used to haul eight-foot-long rowboats, to those with 12,000-pound capacity that handle 36-foot-long mini yachts. At peak times, the company employs about 500 nationwide, including about 250 in Spokane.

The size of EZ Loaders work force fluctuates seasonallywith its busiest time typically in the spring when its churning out trailers that will be sold during the summer months, Norman says. He declines to disclose the companys annual revenues. The downturn EZ Loader weathered during the previous few years was small compared with those endured by its competitors, some of which didnt survive the falloff in activity, Norman contends.ĭuring the harder times, it tends to weed out the smaller companies that cant make it through, he says.įounded in 1953, EZ Loader is among the nations largest boat-trailer makers, and Norman says he believes its the largest company that makes boat trailers exclusively. One national boat manufacturer, for example, is projecting a 40 percent increase in the number of boats it will sell next year, Norman says.

That would be a big jump in activity, but is conservative compared with some projections that companies in the boating industry are making. If you look at the indicators for next, it will be even better.ĮZ Loader is projecting that it will make 55,000 to 57,000 boat trailers in 2004. This whole year has been a really strong year, Norman says. Rick Norman, sales and marketing manager for the 50-year-old manufacturer, says EZ Loader is on pace to make about 50,000 boat trailers this year, 5 percent more than last year and comparable to its production volumes in the late 1990s, before the economy softened. has been making and shipping more trailers this year as activity in the boating industry has picked up. Having held its own during a tough national economy the past few years, Spokane-based EZ Loader Boat Trailers Inc.

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