Tempurpedic

Some more industry news, this time concerning the New Jersey areas…If you have been following the news on this section, you would have read plenty of changes in the ownership and proprietorship of many mattress operators and manufacturers.  There’s too much going on in this industry!

RANDOLPH Mattress Discounters reportedly agreed last week to buy 12 Rockaway Bedding stores for $660,000 from the bankrupt bed seller. Upper Marlboro, Md.-based Mattress Discounters had previously offered to buy 18 stores from Rockaway Bedding, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April, but withdrew the $1.7 million bid last month.  However, things could change again because the stores will reportedly be put up for sale in an auction. Rockaway Bedding has received court approval to hire a liquidator to sell about 121 of its 180 stores.

Business leader Mattress Discounters recently gave fifteen new mattresses to the homeless institution, Focus House. The shelter has to contend with intermittent bed bug infestation that instead of helping the homeless find refuge and avoid sleeping in the streets, they end up getting bitten by the pests in the comforts of the shelter.

The shelter has been established to help the homeless become productive citizens. Normally, people don’t have a lot of sympathy for them but  hopefully, this gesture by the mattress company will inspire others to do the same.

If you would like to donate anything, you can go to Focal House’s parent organization www.fishcarson.org.