Type Private Area served United States Founded 19 July 2012 | Number of locations 1 store (2016) Products Mattresses | |
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Industry Manufacturing
e-commerce Headquarters 731 Grand Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85007, United States Founders Daehee Park, John-Thomas Marino | ||
Tuft needle mattress review
Tuft & Needle (stylized as TUFT&NEEDLE, often simply T&N) is an American e-commerce and manufacturing company founded on July 19, 2012 by Daehee Park and John-Thomas Marino and based in Phoenix, Arizona. It sells and manufactures mattresses made specially from an in-house foam.
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Tuft needle mattress review
History
Both Daehee Park and John-Thomas Marino (often known as JT) met via entrepreneur engineering school in Pennsylvania State University. After JT and his wife overpaid for a substandard mattress, Park had the idea of creating a manufacturing company that downsized the cost of a mattress. The company was co-founded on July 19, 2012 by Park and JT with a $500,000 loan from Bond Street. A charity that allows customers to donate money for those unable to buy a mattress, was established in December.
Within January and February 2014, the company generated about $500,000 in revenue, following $1 million in sales at the end of 2013. On April 2014, Park spoke about founding a start-up and achieving success at IST Start-Up Week, which was hosted by Pennsylvania State University. The company also opened its first "brick-and-mortar" showroom at Phoenix in December, which was made as "an experiment" and was available by appointment only.
The company headquartered at the previous O.S. Stapley Hardware buildings at Grand Avenue in Phoenix in December 2015, after a city grant of $300,000 was used to improve and repair the buildings by a real estate developer. The company also had an alleged 150% sales increase after a partnership with Google, with $40 million in sales from 2015.
Products
The company currently offers mattresses ranging from twin to California King to be shipped in a maximum box size of 18 in × 18 in × 44 in (46 cm × 46 cm × 112 cm). The shipping and business model is usually direct-to-consumer and the foam is made with a custom-made, in-house polyurethane foam. It is density proprietary, as it has 7" of 1.8 lbs/ft of the foam support and is made in the United States. The mattress by itself is refundable and, in doing so, will be donated to a local charity or nonprofit and the mattress is covered with a 10-year warranty.
Reception
The company has received press from Business Insider, Marketing Land, The Arizona Republic Consumer Reports, Forbes, Phoenix Business Journal, Bloomberg and Wired.