Select Comfort - Citizendia

Select Comfort Corporation
Type	Corporation
Founded	1987
Headquarters	United States
Key people	Bill McLaughlin, Pete Bils
Industry	Mattresses
Products	Sleep Number bed air mattresses and Bedding
Website	http://www.selectcomfort.com/

Select Comfort (NASDAQ: SCSS) is a U. A corporation is a separate legal entity usually used to conduct business Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" A mattress is a mat or pad usually placed atop a Bed, upon which to sleep or lie In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need Select Comfort ( is a US-based manufacturer that bills itself as "the leading U An air mattress is an inflatable Mattress / Sleeping pad. Due to its buoyancy it is also often used as a toy flotation device Bedding refers to the materials laid above the mattress of a bed for warmth A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. S. -based manufacturer that bills itself as "the leading U. S. manufacturer of adjustable firmness air mattresses and the creator of the Sleep Number bed. A mattress is a mat or pad usually placed atop a Bed, upon which to sleep or lie " The company is based in Plymouth, Minnesota. Plymouth is the seventh largest city in the US state of Minnesota.

The company's frequent TV commercials feature actress Lindsay Wagner. Lindsay Jean Wagner (born June 22, 1949) is an Emmy Award winning American actress, best known for her role as Jaime Sommers Other endorsers include conservative radio talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham. Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (born January 12, 1951) is an American radio host and conservative Political commentator. Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1964) is an American radio host, Author, and conservative political commentator

Select Comfort was founded in 1987 by Robert Walker and his wife JoAnn Walker. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) As of 2006, Select Comfort holds 32 issued or pending patents for its products, and has over 442 retail stores nationwide. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The current CEO is Bill McLaughlin.

Select Comfort also has an exclusive partnership with Radisson Hotels & Resorts, which was announced in May 2004. Radisson Hotels & Resorts is a worldwide chain of 435 Hotels with a total of 102000 guest rooms in 61 countries The Radisson Sleep Number bed can now be found at Radisson properties in locations throughout the U. S. , Canada and the Caribbean. [1]

Select Comfort has been the "Official Bed Provider" for Ronald McDonald House Charities since January 2001. A Ronald McDonald House (named after Ronald McDonald) is a place where the parents of children that are in a nearby Hospital can stay at night for reduced or no cost The company has donated more than 3,700 Sleep Number beds to the 156 Ronald McDonald Houses in the U. S. to date. In addition to the beds, Select Comfort, along with its employees and vendor partners, has donated more than 5,500 employee volunteer hours and $640,000 in contributions from employee payroll deductions, retail promotions and other fundraising activities. The total value of these goods, services and cash contributions exceeds $3. 2 million. [2] In October 2006, Select Comfort sponsored a "Sleep Like a Star" celebrity bed auction on eBay which raised over $35,000. eBay Inc is an American Internet company that manages eBaycom an Online auction and shopping Website in which people and businesses buy and

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Major North American mattress manufacturers
Comfortaire - Dorel - King Koil - Restonic - Sealy - Select Comfort - Serta - Simmons - Spring Air - Tempur-Pedic - Therm-a-Rest - Leggett & Platt

A mattress is a mat or pad usually placed atop a Bed, upon which to sleep or lie Dorel Industries Inc ( and) is a Montreal Quebec -based company which designs and manufactures for three areas juvenile home furnishings and recreational/leisure King Koil is a United States -based brand of Mattresses and bedding with 60 factories in 40 countries operated by independent licensees. Restonic was founded in 1938 as the Triple Cushion Corporation and took the Restonic name in 1946 Sealy Corporation ( is a major Mattress Manufacturer. The company draws its name from the city where it started Sealy Texas. Serta is a company that specializes in making Mattresses It was founded in 1931 by 13 mattress manufacturers who licensed the Serta name and now eight independent Simmons Bedding Company is a major manufacturer of Mattresses and related bedding products Spring Air Company is a Mattress company based in the United States. Tempur-Pedic International Inc manufactures and distributes mattresses and pillows made from TEMPUR material Therm-a-Rest is a trademarked name for a line of self-inflating Camping Mattresses They were invented in the early 1970s by two former Boeing engineers Leggett & Platt (L&P ( is a Fortune 500 diversified Manufacturer that conceives designs and produces a broad variety of engineered components and products that

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