Blue Bell Mattress Acquires Comfort Mattress Co.

Furniture World News Desk on 12/11/2017

Independent mattress manufacturer Blue Bell Mattress Company has acquired Comfort Mattress Company from Art Van Furniture. The acquisition extends Blue Bell’s distribution from its core market in New England and the mid-Atlantic states, to now include the Midwest region and 176 of Art Van’s retail stores from Pennsylvania to Illinois.

Blue Bell will run its Midwest production from Comfort’s 140,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Roseville, Mich. Comfort Mattress employees will become part of the Blue Bell family, which will now total 250 employees.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“The acquisition gives us a great gateway into the Midwest to help build out our expansion strategy, which has accelerated with this year’s investment by Landon Capital,” said Mark Kolovson, CEO of Blue Bell.

“The Comfort Mattress facility is a great location for Blue Bell to provide our growing retail partners with quicker delivery of our portfolio of products.”

The newly-acquired facility will be branded Blue Bell Midwest and will manufacture product for Blue Bell’s private label line, as well as King Koil and Natura, Blue Bell’s licensing partners.

“We’re excited about this next step in Blue Bell’s expansion and look forward to the execution of integrating the Michigan factory into the existing operations,” said Chris Sullivan, managing partner of Landon. “Next year will contain further expansion of both the Blue Bell footprint and into new product lines. This acquisition is the first step toward reaching those goals.”

Art Van used the factory to supply its traditional and PureSleep bedding stores with a Michigan-made line of bedding. The new factory will complement Blue Bell’s two manufacturing facilities, totaling 200,000 square feet, in Connecticut.

More about Blue Bell Mattress: Blue Bell Mattress Co. Inc., based in East Windsor, Conn., is the largest U.S. licensee of King Koil brand products. Blue Bell sells King Koil branded and private-label innerspring and hybrid mattresses to bedding and furniture retailers serving customers in nearly 1,500 store locations from Maine to Florida, and as far west as Illinois. The company is also a licensee of Natura World. Founded in 1928, the company manufactures in two factories totaling 200,000-square-foot. Boston-based Landon Capital Partners, a direct private equity investment group of the Landon Trust acquired a majority interest in Blue Bell in 2017. For more information, visit http://www.landoncapital.com or http://www.bluebellmattress.com.

More about Art Van, LLC: Art Van Furniture, LLC is the Midwest’s No. 1 furniture and mattress retailer with 176 stores in 9 states operating under the following brands; Art Van Furniture, Art Van PureSleep, Art Van Flooring, Scott Shuptrine Interiors, Levin Furniture, Levin Mattress, Wolf Furniture and Gardiner Wolf Furniture. Founded in 1959, the company is headquartered in Warren, Mich. For more information, visit artvan.com.