Last year, Builder Magazine released a list of the top 31 modular builders (pdf) in the United States.
I've put the data in the top chart above. As can be seen, a few large companies build the majority of modular homes. In case you don't recognize the shape of the curve: it's a classic "powerlaw" distribution known as Zipf's Law and discussed in the business bestseller The Long Tail. All sorts of data show the same shape, including book sales, blog traffic, and word usage in any language.
The second chart shows revenue per home for each company. There is lots of variation in this chart. It might be interesting to research this variation at some point. One likely factor: companies that sell direct vs. wholesale. Any other thoughts?
Fleetwood Enterprises builds a number of products, including recreational vehicles, so their revenues reflect revenue sources other than the modular homes shipped, accounting for the large discrepancies in the data.
Below, you can see a table that shows all of the data charted above for each company.
Company (rank) | Homes | Revenue ($m) | Revenue per home |
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Champion Enterprises (1) | 4653 | 1365 | $293,359 |
CMH Manufacturing (2) | 3166 | 1328 | $419,457 |
Palm Harbor Homes (3) | 1614 | 711 | $440,520 |
Muncy Homes (4) | 1346 | 85 | $63,150 |
Excel Homes (5) | 1200 | 111 | $92,500 |
Ritz-Craft Corp. (6) | 849 | 91 | $107,185 |
Professional Building Systems (7) | 781 | 58 | $74,264 |
Royal Concrete Concepts (8) | 600 | 68 | $113,333 |
Liberty Homes (9) | 552 | 97 | $175,725 |
Pleasan Street Homes (10) | 526 | 57 | $108,365 |
Patriot Homes (11) | 490 | 151 | $308,163 |
Crestline Homes (12) | 480 | 36 | $75,000 |
Simplex Industries (13) | 452 | 45 | $99,558 |
R-Anell Housing Group (14) | 408 | 42 | $102,941 |
Stratford Homes (15) | 375 | 35 | $93,333 |
New England Homes (16) | 350 | 27 | $77,143 |
American Homestar Corp. (17) | 341 | 111 | $325,513 |
Four Seasons Housing (18) | 320 | 84 | $262,500 |
Handcrafted Homes (19) | 307 | 28 | $91,205 |
Westchester Modular Homes (20) | 305 | 30 | $98,361 |
Fleetwood Enterprises (21) | 261 | 2145 | $8,218,391 |
Unibilt Industries (22) | 253 | 22 | $86,957 |
Integrity Building Systems (23) | 247 | 22 | $89,069 |
Penn Lyon Homes Corp. (24) | 230 | 32 | $139,130 |
Oxford Homes (25) | 220 | 15 | $68,182 |
Deluxe Building Systems (26) | 165 | 33 | $200,000 |
Barvista Homes (27) | 125 | 15 | $120,000 |
Custom Building Systems (28) | 121 | 11 | $90,909 |
Heritage Homes of Nebraska (29) | 121 | 14 | $115,702 |
Manufactured Housing Enterprises (30) | 106 | 10 | $94,340 |
Epoch Homes (31) | 100 | 14 | $140,000 |