Spring Air, licensees merge
Hellyer joins as CEO; Nation is president
By Larry Thomas -- Furniture Today, July 2, 2007
Elk Grove Village, Ill. — Consolidated Bedding, Spring Air's largest licensee, has acquired six additional U.S. licensees and simultaneously merged with Spring Air Co., the licensor of the Spring Air bedding brand.
The newly unified Spring Air also has hired former Simmons executive Bob Hellyer as CEO. He will oversee some 1,150 employees at 13 factories and a corporate office, which will remain in the Chicago area.
Jim Nation, president of Spring Air Co., will hold the same title in the new Spring Air. Steve Antinori, chairman and CEO of Consolidated Bedding, will become chairman of the Spring Air board.
