Sleep Country USA
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| Wholly Owned Subsidiary/ESOP | |
| Industry | Mattress Retailer |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Founder | Sunny Kobe Cook and Robert Cook |
| Headquarters | Kent, Washington, United States |
Area served | Pacific Northwest |
Key people | CEO: Dale Carlsen; COO: Rob Killgore; CFO: Pete DiCorti |
| Products | Bedding and furniture |
Number of employees | 525+ |
| Parent | Sleep Train |
| Website |
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Sleep Country USA is a Pacific Northwest bedding retailer founded in 1991. It has more than 70 mattress stores in Oregon and Washington. The company headquarters are in Kent, Washington.
Company History
Sunny Kobe Cook and Robert Cook founded Sleep Country USA in 1991 as a specialty sleep store chain.[1] It started with 8 stores and approximately 25 employees in Washington.[2] In March 2000, New York-based Fenway Partners Inc. acquired Sleep Country from Robert Cook and Sunny Kobe Cook.[3] In 2003, Fenway Partners sold Sleep Country USA to the Atlanta-based Simmons Company. In August 2006, The Sleep Train, Inc. purchased the then-55-store Sleep Country USA Pacific Northwest chain from Simmons for $55m.[4]
Sleep Country USA's jingle “Why Buy a Mattress Anywhere Else? (ding)." is well known in the northwest region of the US.[5]
In October 2010, Sleep Country USA followed the nationwide of trend of putting in place an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).[6]
Philanthropy
In 2005, Sleep Country created the Sleep Country Foster Kids program to help the Pacific Northwest’s nearly 20,000 foster children. Through advertising, the collection and distribution of important material items like clothing, shoes, pajamas, coats, school supplies, gifts, and cash donations, Sleep Country’s Foster Kids Program has delivered nearly 449,000 items and more than $490,000 in cash to these organizations.[7]
Since 2006, the company has hosted an annual "Sleep Country Pajama Bowl" series of events that have raised more than $900,000 for Pacific Northwest foster children.[8]
Recognition & Awards
Sleep Country USA has been recognized with the following awards:
- Oregon Business Magazine, Top 100 Best Companies to Work For, 2012 [9]
- Seattle Business’ Best Companies to Work For, 2012[10]
References
- ↑ "Sleep Country USA marks 20 years". Bed Times. July 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ↑ Sleep Country Celebrates 20th Year Anniversary Sleep Country website. Retrieved May 30, 2012
- ↑ Goldfield, Robert (September 7, 2003). "Simmons selling region's biggest mattress retailers". Puget Sound Business Journal. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ↑ "Simmons selling Sleep Country for $55M". Puget Sound Business Journal. July 6, 2006. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ↑ Levesque, John (August 9, 2009). "Sleep Country jingle has been waking up the Northwest for 18 years". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ↑ Jones, Jeanne Lang (October 22, 2010). "Sleep Country USA shifting to worker ownership". Puget Sound Business Journal. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ↑ Musazy, Atia (April 18, 2012). "Sleep Country's Foster Kids Program brings employees together". Seattle Times. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.furninfo.com/Furniture%20Industry%20News/3194. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Oregon Business Magazine / The 2013 list: top 33 large companies to work for in Oregon (PDF). Retrieved March 11, 2013.
- ↑ Seattle Business / The 100 best companies (PDF). Retrieved June 28, 2012.