Coachmen Industries, Inc. Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend

ELKHART, Ind., Feb. 18, 2005 -- Coachmen Industries, Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a $0.06 per share regular quarterly dividend. The dividend will be distributed on March 29, 2005 to shareholders of record as of March 8, 2005. This is the 90th consecutive quarter that Coachmen Industries has paid dividends. The $0.06 rate is unchanged from the last quarter. Coachmen Industries has approximately 15.7 million shares of common stock outstanding.

Coachmen Industries, Inc. is one of America's leading manufacturers of recreational vehicles, systems-built homes and commercial buildings, with prominent subsidiaries in each industry. The Company's well-known RV brand names include COACHMEN(R), GEORGIE BOY(TM), SPORTSCOACH(R) and VIKING(R). Through ALL AMERICAN HOMES(R), Coachmen is one of the nation's largest producers of systems-built homes, and also a major builder of commercial structures with its ALL AMERICAN BUILDING SYSTEMS(TM) and MILLER BUILDING SYSTEMS(TM) products. Prodesign, LLC, produces custom composite and thermoformed plastic parts for numerous industries under the PRODESIGN(R) brand. Coachmen Industries, Inc. is a publicly held company with stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker COA.