Type Private Products Matresses Date founded 1996 Number of employees 100 | Area served Michigan & Indiana Headquarters Genoa Township Number of locations 31 Parent organization Art Van | |
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Website web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mattressworldmichigan.com/ | ||
Mattress World, Inc., doing business as Mattress World of Michigan was a mattress retailer with stores in Michigan and seven in Indiana in the Midwestern United States. Its headquarters were in Genoa Township, Michigan, near Howell.
In a press release, Art Van stated that Mattress World catered "to a value conscious consumer who is interested in national brands at the lowest prices, selling brands such as Tempur-Pedic, Simmons, Sealy and Serta." Shandra Martinez of MLive described the chain as being "value-based". Furniture Today wrote that Mattress World was "more promotional" than Art Van, the company which acquired the chain in 2011.
The stores were usually located in bedroom communities and not in big box store corridors. The stores were freestanding.
History
The chain was founded in 1996. Its first store opened in Howell, Michigan in 1998.
In 2002 Mattress World had three stores in the state of Michigan. Mattress World was, according to a Furniture Today article, the apparent high bidder for six Mattress Discounters stores in Metro Detroit; Mattress Discounters was exiting the Michigan market.
In 2009 the company had 22 locations. In May during that year it acquired seven Mattress Gallery stores in Indianapolis; the Mattress Gallery stores, previously owned by the Indianapolis-based Today's Bedroom One, had closed in April 2009. The company planned to convert them into Mattress World locations. The stores reopened as Mattress World locations in June 2009.
In 2011 the chain had 28 stores, with 21 in Michigan and 7 in Indianapolis. One of its Michigan stores was located in Ann Arbor. At the time it had 100 employees. In May 2011 Mattress World of Michigan was acquired by Art Van Furniture which said it would keep the Mattress World name and the employees. Art Van stated that it may rebrand some stores as Art Van PureSleep. The acquisition of Mattress World gave Art Van its first stores outside of Michigan. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Art Van assigned Armando Murillo, previously the employee who established Pure Sleep operations outside of Michigan, as the vice president operating Mattress World.
In 2013, the Mattress World stores were closed, with the majority re-opened as Art Van PureSleep stores. Art Van PureSleep now operates 88 stores both freestanding and inside Art Van Furniture stores, in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.