Thor Announces Launch of Thor Credit; Exclusive Retail Finance Program Will Help Thor RV Dealers

JACKSON CENTER, Ohio, June 2 -- Thor Industries, Inc. announced today that it has launched Thor Credit to provide retail financing for recreation vehicle customers of Thor dealers. Thor Credit is introducing the program regionally in the following states: (AL, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, TN, VA) and will be expanding its lending activity beyond those states in the future. Thor Credit will finance new Thor RV products and all used products of its dealers. The business will be led by industry veterans Ed Arienti, Margaret Gandolfo, Nancy Hartmann, Bob Kennedy and Mike Rapp, utilizing their decades of industry retail finance expertise.

"This exclusive Thor financing program will help Thor dealers provide much needed retail credit to their customers," said Wade F. B. Thompson, Thor Chairman & CEO. Thor Credit will begin accepting credit applications in the above-mentioned states on June 2, 2009. Thor dealers can contact Thor Credit at 1-800-700-THOR (8467) with any questions and to obtain dealer sign-up materials