The Sleep Train

The Sleep Train

Sleep Train is one of the top three mattress retailers in the United States and the largest on the West Coast.Nancy Butler, " [http://sleepsavvymagazine.com/editorial/pdf/library/retail_road_trips/RRTJan07.pdf Retail Road Trip - The selling scene] ", SleepSavvy January/February 2007 edition] It was founded by Dale Carlsen in June 1985. Sleep Train stores carry mattress manufactured by Sealy, Simmons, Select Comfort, Tempur-Pedic, and Stearns and Foster. Sleep Train also carries headboards by Fashion Bed Group and Modus International, as well as a variety of bedding accessories.

Sleep Train, Inc. owns and operates Mattress Discounters West, Sleep Train Mattress Centers and Sleep Country USA. [Johnson, Kelly, " [http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2002/10/21/daily25.html Sleep Train agrees to buy 54 stores] " Sacramento Business Journal - October 23, 2002] total of more than 210 stores in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. The company employs more than 1500 people.

In July 2006, Carlsen announced the purchase of the 55-store Sleep Country USA chain in the Pacific Northwest. Sleep Country USA was formerly owned by the mattress manufacturer Simmons. [ [http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2006/08/28/daily22.html?surround=lfn Sacramento Business Journal Article] about purchase of Sleep Country in 2006.]

In August 2007, Sleep Train was awarded the title of "Best Mattress/Bed Store" by a reader's poll conducted by the San Diego Union Tribune. [" [http://sdunion.p2ionline.com/specialsections/ss/index.aspx?webstoryid=12549731&area=SS&type=page&adgroupid=25564&adid=1723433&menu=-26 Readers' choices unveiled] ", San Diego Union Tribune, August 1, 2007]

External links

* [http://www.sleeptrain.com Sleeptrain.com]
* [http://www.sleeptrainamphitheatre.com Sleep Train Amphitheater]

References in the Media

* Nancy J. Kim, " [http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/1997/05/19/story4.html Sleep Train rumbles full steam into the heart of Sleep Country] ", Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle), May 16, 1997
* Kelly Johnson, " [http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/1998/02/23/story2.html Sleep Train zips into Bay Area] ", Sacramento Business Journal - February 20, 1998
* Kelly Johnson, " [http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/1998/08/24/story8.html Sleep Train chugs along with multi-city expansion] ", Sacramento Business Journal - August 21, 1998
* Shannon McMahon and David Washburn, " [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050222/news_1b22retail.html Rain casts pall on trips to the mall] ", San Diego Union Tribune, February 22, 2005
* " [http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2006/08/28/daily22.html?surround=lfn Sleep Train purchases Sleep Country USA] ", Sacramento Business Journal, August 30, 2006
* " [http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2007/01/15/tidbits1.html Mattress chain vaults the Sierra Nevada with latest expansion] ", Sacramento Business Journal, January 12, 2007

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