1 As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2001 Registration No. 333-53978 ================================================================================ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 --------------- Amendment No. 5 to FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT Under THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 --------------- CHAMPION ENTERPRISES, INC. (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) Michigan 38-2743168 (State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer incorporation or organization) Identification No.) 2701 Cambridge Ct., Suite 300 Auburn Hills, Michigan 48326 (248) 340-9090 (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant's principal executive offices) John J. Collins, Jr., Esq. Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Champion Enterprises, Inc. 2701 Cambridge Ct., Suite 300 Auburn Hills, Michigan 48326 (248) 340-9090 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) --------------- copy to: D. Richard McDonald, Esq. Dykema Gossett PLLC 39577 Woodward Avenue, Suite 300 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304 Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public: From time to time after this Registration Statement is declared effective. If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or investment plans, please check the following box. [ ] If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or reinvestment plans, please check the following box. [X] If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. [ ] 2 If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. [ ] If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434, please check the following box. [ ] --------------- THE REGISTRANT HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANT SHALL FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(A) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTION 8(A), MAY DETERMINE. ------------- 3 PART II INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS 7 4 ITEM 16. EXHIBITS A list of exhibits included as part of this Amendment to the Registration Statement is set forth below. 23(a) Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 9 5 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Champion Enterprises, Inc. has duly caused this amendment to the registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Auburn Hills, in the State of Michigan on April 27, 2001. CHAMPION ENTERPRISES, INC. By * ------------------------------ Name: Walter R. Young Title: President and Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on April 27, 2001. * Chairman of the Board of ------------------------------------- Directors, President and Chief Walter R. Young Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) * Executive Vice President and ------------------------------------- Chief Financial Officer Anthony S. Cleberg (Principal Financial Officer) * Vice President and Controller ------------------------------------- (Principal Accounting Officer) Richard Hevelhorst * Director ------------------------------------- Robert W. Anestis * Director ------------------------------------- Selwyn Isakow * Director ------------------------------------- Ellen R. Levine 11 6 * Director ------------------------------------- Brian D. Jellison * Director ------------------------------------- George R. Mrkonic * Director ------------------------------------- Carl L. Valdiserri *By:/s/ JOHN J.COLLINS, JR. ----------------------- Attorney-in-fact 12 7 EXHIBIT INDEX Exhibit No. Description of Exhibits Page No. ----------- ----------------------- -------- 23(a) Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 13