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History
The history of Simmons Company is one of continuous innovation spanning more than 130 years. The Simmons story began in 1870 when Zalmon Simmons bought a cheese-box factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He also owned a country store where one day, as payment for a bad debt, he accepted a patent for a woven bedspring. Simmons assigned a local inventor to the project and in 1876 they manufactured the first mass-produced woven wire mattress.
This idea was definitely ahead of its time. While the bed was becoming a fixture in American bedrooms, the mattress was still a rarity. As the 1920s began, most Americans still slept on lumpy pads stuffed with cotton or hair. This habit continued until 1925 when Simmons Company came up with the Beautyrest® Pocketed Coil® spring mattress and changed the history of sleep forever.
As the decades passed, Simmons continued to make bedding history by catering to changing lifestyles. In 1930, they introduced the studio couch and 10 years later the innovative Hide-A-Bed®. The first electric blanket (1946) was another Simmons invention. In 1958, Simmons became the first mattress company to offer both king and queen sizes. As Americans became more stressed and grew physically larger, Simmons saw to these needs with solution after solution. BackCare® was introduced in 1995. The non-flip mattress (a maintenance-free design that has radically changed the way bedding is made) debuted in 2000. And the Olympic® Queen, with its imaginatively designed space so a queen sleeps more like a king-sized mattress, came a year later.
Today, the company remains on a historic mission: to provide quality sleep and better overall health for the changing needs of society. |
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