UPDATE, 2.20pm: FORMER director of Kimberley Kampers Bruce Loxton has revealed Australia’s biggest caravan manufacturer Jayco offered the buy the Ballina business a few years ago.
Amid speculation over whether the Kimberley brand might still have a future with the right buyer, Mr Loxton confirmed Jayco had shown serious interest in the company.
Gerry Ryan, the Australian rich lister who built Jayco into a $500 million company, apparently offered to snap up Kimberley in 2014.
But there was a condition he put on the sale which Mr Loxton couldn’t abide by.
“He said I’d buy it off you provided you move it to Melbourne,” Mr Loxton said.
“He gave me an offer in 2014.
“I didn’t approach him, he approached…
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