1-800-Mattress

1-800-Mattress
Type Private
Industry Retail
Founded 1976
Founder(s) Napoleon and Kay Barragan
Headquarters Hicksville, New York, USA
Products Bedding
Website www.1800mattress.com

1800Mattress.com (formerly know as 1-800-Mattress and Dial-a-Mattress) is an American bedding retailer famous for its ads that used the slogan "leave off the last S for savings" (since the word "mattress" has 8 letters and only 7 are necessary for a phone number).[1]

It is the nation’s leading bedding tele-retailer where customers can select from a variety of mattresses, box springs and bedding accessories by phone, internet and live chat 24-hours a day, seven days a week, as well as by visiting 1800Mattress.com showrooms. [2]

1800mattress.com’s headquarter is in Hicksville, NY with 7 distribution centers located in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, Florida and Northern California with nationwide service is available through regional warehouse/distribution centers and retail partners throughout the United States. [2]

History

1800mattress.com was founded as Dial-A-Mattress in 1976 by Napoleon Barragan, born in Bilovan, Ecuador who emigrated to Queens, New York, from Bogota, Colombia with his wife Kay in 1969. He got the idea as he saw an ad for Dial-A-Steak, a business that sold meat over the telephone. [1][3] [4]

In 1979 Dial-A-Mattress started to advertise on television[1] and in October 1988 Dial-A-Mattress started promoting their toll-free 800 number in broadcast advertisements. At the same time Dial-A-Mattress established an award winning Customer Service division and installed its first computer system to track inventory, sales and deliveries. 6 years later, in 1994, the company went national and later the name was changed to 1-800-Mattress[2]

On March 23, 2009, 1-800-Mattress filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection pending a proposed merger with former rival, Sleepy's[5] and later that year the merger was completed and 1-800-Mattress officially became 1800Mattress.com.

In 2011 1800Mattress.com began to open stores in the north east U.S, with stores in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.

References

  1. ^ a b c How 1-800-Mattress Turned zzzz's into $$$$!. The New York Enterprise Report. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
  2. ^ a b c 1800Mattress.com. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
  3. ^ Because a Guy from Ecuador Can Sell Soda Off the Back of a Donkey, Then Come Here and Build a $120 Million Business—All It Takes Is a Few Mattresses and an 800 Number New York Magazine. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
  4. ^ Sleep on it: an Ecuadoran finds a novel way to sell mattresses, and builds on empire along the way. BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  5. ^ Bankrupt 1-800-Mattress plans merger with Sleepy’s. Crain’s NY Report. Retrieved 2011-08-11.

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