Champion Homes, or Champion Home Builders, is a mobile and modular home manufacturing company. It is the second largest modular homebuilder in North America. The company also provides factory-built housing to the United Kingdom and western Canada. Champion homes has been a publicly held company for over 40 years, with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange from 1995 to 2010 .   On May 23, 2011, Champion Enterprises Inc. went out of business as per its Chapter 11 liquidation filing under bankruptcy. Champion Enterprises, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells factory-built housing in the United States and western Canada. It also produces steel-framed modular buildings in the United Kingdom for use as prisons, military accommodations, hotels, residential units, and other commercial applications. The company also specializes in the design, manufacture, and construction of permanent multi-story buildings using off-site modular construction. As of January 3, 2009, Champion’s North American manufacturing segment consisted of 26 homebuilding facilities in 14 states and 3 provinces in western Canada, and sold homes through approximately 1,600 independent sales centers, builders, and developers, as well as through its retail segment operated 14 sales offices in California. Its international manufacturing segment consisted of five manufacturing facilities in the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1953 and is based in Troy, Michigan.    