Australian caravan manufacturer Maverick Campers has collapsed after negotiations with its financier broke down earlier this week.
A liquidator was appointed to Fetch Business Solutions, which trades as Maverick Campers, on Thursday.
An ASIC notice said members voted at a general meeting on 1 October 2026 to wind up the company.
Yulia Petrenko and Malcolm Kimbal Howell, from Jirsch Sutherland, were appointed as liquidators on 1 October.
“It is still very early in the liquidation and there is a significant amount of work to be done before we have a complete picture,” Ms Petrenko said in a statement to The Daily Mail.
“Our immediate focus is on affected customers and creditors, as well as identifying the best way to preserve value and maximise recoveries.
“The removal of stock created significant uncertainty for the business, particularly regarding its ability to fulfil existing customer commitments.
“Until those investigations are further advanced, it would be premature to draw conclusions about the causes of the company’s failure.”
Australian caravan manufacturer Maverick Campers has collapsed after negotiations with its financier broke down earlier this week
Maverick Campers director Matt Winen (pictured) announced that the business had collapsed
Maverick Campers director Matthew Winen said the company’s unnamed financier made a “bombshell” decision to repossess its caravans after negotiations over $500,000 in debt failed.
“[The financier] drops the bombshell, says, ‘We are repossessing all of the caravans’,” he said in a video shared on social media.
“I said, ‘What do you mean, repossessing all of them?’ [They said,] ‘Across Australia, yes, every one of them’.”
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“And you can imagine the bombshell that hit when we thought we were all good. We were absolutely blown away.”
Maverick Campers’ website listed sales centres in cities across Australia, including Prospect, Caboolture, Campbellfield and Wangara.
Mr Winen said he did not know whether customers would receive refunds, but indicated they could still choose to proceed with their purchases.
“We’ve got 72 orders in the order book, $5 million worth of value of forward orders in the order book. Fifty-three per cent of those 72 people had paid less than 10 per cent deposits,” Mr Winen said.
“There’s six to seven people that have paid 40 to 50 per cent of their money… Those people… we’ll probably reach out to earlier, the earliest we can do, which we’re working through.
The company operated across four states in Australia
“If someone said, ‘Oh no, I want a refund’, unfortunately that would be up to the liquidator and, I’m going to assume, would be unlikely. So, the way to avoid losing any money would be to proceed with the sale.”
Mr Winen said the company had no outstanding debts to its employees, the Australian Taxation Office, suppliers or landlords.
The news comes after another caravan maker, Australian Off Road, collapsed last month.
The Queensland manufacturer, based in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, collapsed in early September after more than 25 years in business, leaving dozens of customers who had paid caravan deposits in the lurch.
The company is understood to have employed more than 100 people and built around 250 caravans in 2025.
Founder Steve Budden blamed increased competition from cheaper imported caravans for the company’s closure.
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