KINGSDOWN OPENS TWO MALL-BASED RETAIL STORES.(under the name Sleep To Live)(Brief Article)

HFN: The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network, September, 2003 by Kunkel, Karl

MEBANE, N.C.-Kingsdown Inc., taking a step to promote its own growth, has launched its first two retail stores under the name Sleep To Live.

The first one opened in late July at The Streets at Southpoint, a regional mall in Durham, N.C. The other one, at The Mall in Columbia, a Maryland suburb between Washington and Baltimore, opened in mid-August. Both are 1,500 square feet. A privately owned Boyles Sleep To Live Center, similar in concept, opened a year ago at Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, N.C., and is still operating.

The Sleep To Live retail concept, developed by Kingsdown, will gradually appear in malls and other venues across the country, according to Pat Flippin, president of Kingsdown. Some of the new stores will be franchises operated by...

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