Marine Marketers of America (MMA) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Neptune Awards—North America’s top honors for marine marketing. The annual contest, now in its 18th year, is open to any com... Read More
Yesterday, it was announced that Canada's Budget 2025 includes a commitment to remove the luxury tax on boats, a failed tax policy that unfairly punished Canadian manufacturers and workers. When the l... Read More
The American Boat & Yacht Council (ABYC) announced that Standards Week 2026 will take place Jan. 11–15 at the Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, bringing together marine industry lead... Read More
NMMA’s annual U.S. Recreational Boating Statistical Abstract is a trusted source of comprehensive industry facts and figures. The data presented in the latest 486-page report spans from 2011-2024 outl... Read More
When Metstrade runs Nov. 18–20 in Amsterdam, the global marine industry will see an exciting new chapter for North America. For the first time, the Canada and U.S.A. pavilions will co-locate in Hall 1... Read More
A premier event for the boating industry’s marketing leaders, the 2025 Discover Boating Marketing Leadership Summit—held in Tampa just ahead of IBEX—brought together 80 senior marketers from NMMA manu... Read More
As expected, the Fed cut its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points this week – a welcomed move for the recreational boating industry. The reduction will modestly lower financing cos... Read More
On October 24, Smoker Craft, Inc. hosted Indiana Governor Mike Braun and representatives from the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) for a productive meeting at the company’s New Paris, ... Read More
U.S. consumer confidence eased slightly in October, slipping to 94.6 from a revised 95.6 in September, according to the latest report from The Conference Board released yesterday. While the headline n... Read More
The government is shutdown, but U.S. trade and tariff news is not. In the past several days: NMMA officially opposed several Section 232 steel and aluminum inclusions requests. Preside... Read More