Sleepy's was a retail mattress chain with over 1,000 stores, primarily situated in the northeastern United States. The company was founded in New York City in 1931. Sleepy's was acquired by Mattress Firm in December 2015 and all stores were rebranded under the Mattress Firm name on January 1, 2017, but the website continued as an online retailer until 2018. Mattress Firm now uses the Sleepy's name for their private label mattresses. Business history In the mid 1920's Louis Acker left Austria and worked in France. He learned how to hand tie and make mattresses. He left France on the SS Rochambeau, which was a French transatlantic ocean liner of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. In 1931, Louis Acker opened his first mattress store in Brooklyn, N.Y. Louis had 4 sons. Harry, Melvyn, Lenny and Jack. In 1955, Louis Acker passed away suddenly from a heart attack. Harry and Melvyn took over The Bedding Discount Center. Eventually Lenny and Jack also worked there. The business was incorporated in 1957 as Bedding Discount Center. Harry branched out on his own and in 1975 the chain was renamed to Sleepy's. In 1977, Sleepy's opened its eighth store and relocated its corporate offices and warehouse to a space in New Hyde Park. In 1986, it relocated its headquarters and distribution center to a building in Port Washington, NY. In 1993 Sleepy's acquired Kleinsleep and in 1996 Mattress Discounters in New York and New Jersey. In 1994, the 75th store opened and the corporate headquarters and distribution center moved to Bethpage, NY in a building that was expanded in 1995 to . David Acker, Harry's son, became the president of Sleepy's in 2001. In 2002, Sleepy's built a new warehouse in Robbinsville, New Jersey. Mattress Firm sleep chains locations in Connecticut and Massachusetts were acquired in 2003, and in 2007 Sleepy's acquired the Rockaway Bedding chain adding 200 stores. In the summer of 2009 Sleepy's moved its headquarters and New York distribution facility to a newly constructed 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m2) building in Hicksville, New York. In 2009, Sleepy's acquired the assets of Dial-A-Mattress International and 1-800-Mattress Corp., including its two domain names, and a year later the Connecticut mattress specialty chain Better Bedding. In 2013, Sleepy's expanded into the Chicago market. In October 2014 Sleepy's opened its 1,000th store. Their mascot, the Sleepy's man in a red and white night shirt and cap, was introduced