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Article: Sleep Train buying 55-store bedding chain - Sacramento Business Journal:
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- Sacramento Business Journal
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- July 26, 2006
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Sleep Train Inc. is buying the 55-storechain for about $55 million, extending its reach into the Pacific Northwest and expanding its store count by more than 40 percent, the company said Wednesday. The seller is Atlanta-based Simmons Co., one of the world's largest bedding makers. The purchase, expected to close in August, would give Citrus Heights-based Sleep Train a presence from the Mexican border to the Canadian border, with the exception of the core of Los Angeles, Sleep Train president and founder Dale Carlsen said. It also would return Sleep Train to Oregon and Washington; the chain pulled out of those states six years ago when it sold 24 stores to a New York City private-equity ...
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