Kim Brown Knopf opened her first mattress store, Mattress Warehouse, in South Charleston, West Virginia, in 1983. She was 23 years old. After two decades of growth, she expanded the business into her native Kentucky, where she discovered the name Mattress Warehouse was already owned by another company. Sleep Outfitters USA was born, and today, the Lexington-based company employs more than 300 people across 100 stores in six states. The company operates under three names: Sleep Outfitters, Mattress Warehouse, and Mattress King, and they sell America’s most iconic bedding brands: Sealy, Tempur-Pedic, and Stearns & Foster.
Location: South Charleston, USA.
Industry: Manufacturing