{"id":4423,"date":"2014-07-16T09:54:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T04:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/07\/16\/mattress-firm-completes-acquisition-of-nine-store-st-louis-franchise-operation\/"},"modified":"2014-07-16T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T04:24:23","slug":"mattress-firm-completes-acquisition-of-nine-store-st-louis-franchise-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/mattress-firm-completes-acquisition-of-nine-store-st-louis-franchise-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattress Firm Completes Acquisition of Nine-Store St. Louis Franchise Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Furniture World Magazine\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mattress Firm, one of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading mattress retailers, announced that it has completed the acquisition of its nine franchise stores in St. Louis from the current franchise owner, Yotes, Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nThe acquisition of the St. Louis franchise brings Mattress Firm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s corporate-owned store count to 355 in 26 markets and its franchise-owned store count to 45 in 9 markets. Yotes, Inc., a Mattress Firm partner for 13 years, will continue to own and operate Mattress Firm franchise stores in the Denver, Colo. and Wichita, Kan. markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This acquisition made a lot of sense for Mattress Firm because it allows us to establish a corporate presence in St. Louis, an attractive market with a lot of potential for future growth,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gary Fazio, CEO of Mattress Firm. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We look forward to building on the brand equity that has been established through the presence of our franchise partner in the market, and continuing to provide the unique retail experience, sleep expertise and the broadest selection of products and brands in the industry to these locations.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Fazio added: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This acquisition underscores our strategy to grow both organically and through acquisitions as we strive to become the leading specialty mattress retailer in all of the markets we operate.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Mattress Firm carries a full line of national name-brand mattresses such as Sealy\u00c2\u00ae, Simmons\u00c2\u00ae, Tempur-Pedic\u00c2\u00ae and Stearns &#038; Foster\u00c2\u00ae.<\/p>\n<p>Mattress Firm now assumes ownership and operations of the nine stores which already feature Mattress Firm signage and branding, expanded product selection and signature store format.<\/p>\n<p>About Mattress Firm: Houston-based Mattress Firm (www.mattressfirm.com) is America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s preferred specialty mattress company and the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest specialty retailer of top-of-the-line Sealy products. Founded in 1986, Mattress Firm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s knowledgeable sales staff, broad product offering and competitive prices have fueled the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s growth to 400 stores in 35 markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Furniture World Magazine\u00c2\u00a0 Mattress Firm, one of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading mattress retailers, announced that it has completed the acquisition of its nine franchise stores in St. Louis from the current franchise owner, Yotes, Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}