Clint Engel
\nMore than 600 take part in West Coast tournament
\nCOTO DE CAZA, Calif. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Industry members and guests turned out in
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\nrecord numbers her to play a little golf, pay tribute to Sit \u00e2\u20ac\u2122n Sleep leaders Nelson Bercier and Larry Miller and raise a record sum for the City of Hope in the process.
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\nMore than 600 people took part in the 15th annual West Coast Golf & Tennis Tournament, dinner and auction sponsored by the City of Hope\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Home Furnishings Industry Chapter.<\/p>\n
The event raised more than $1 million for the City of Hope\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cancer Center, a record for the event, which in the previous 14 years had raised a total of just under $3 million.<\/p>\n
Bercier, Sit \u00e2\u20ac\u2122n Sleep senior vice president, and Miller, president and CEO, were honored with the City of Hope\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lifetime Achievement award.<\/p>\n
Larry Miller and his father, the late Phil Miller, founded Sit \u00e2\u20ac\u2122n Sleep in 1978 in Culver City, Calif. With help from a move to radio and television advertising \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including spots on the Howard Stern show \u00e2\u20ac\u201d what had been a small struggling unit grew to become in 1995 the highest-volume mattress store in the nation, according to the company.<\/p>\n
Now based in Gardena, Calif., Sit \u00e2\u20ac\u2122n Sleep was ranked No. 75 on Furniture\/Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest survey of Top 100 U.S. furniture stores with 2012 sales of $94 million at 15 stores.<\/p>\n
After dinner, the City of Hope audience heard from the family of Marshall Cotta, who at 13 months of age was diagnosed with a rare and brutal form of brain cancer. He was treaded successfully by the cancer center. Now 8, Marshall was greeted by a standing ovation.<\/p>\n
An after-dinner auction drew bids on everything from a Hawaiian getaway to Los Angeles Lakers tickets. Michael Amini, CEO of importer AICO, made the highest bid at $10,000 for a lunch with Larry Miller. That was on top of the $6 million that Amini recently donated toward the City of Hope\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s planned Transfusion Medicine Center.<\/p>\n
At next year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s event, the Lifetime Achievement award will go to GuildCraft of California partners Larry Quilling, Sid Blitz, Art Fink, and Bob Papazian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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