Case Study
Cannon Sleep Products: Putting Business to Bed with OSAS and Manufacturing & Beyond
Cannon Sleep Products Cannon Sleep Products: Putting Business to Bed with OSAS and Manufacturing & Beyond Though Cannon Sleep Products is one of the premier mattress manufacturers in the United States today, their story started in a rather different industry. In 1959, Ernst “Ernie” Morgenstern founded the Pleasant Bag Company in Fresno, California. Having emigrated from Vienna, he and his wife founded the business by recycling commercial bags and unusable clothing into rags and recycled bags for local industries. The business later incorporated rehabilitating used mattresses into its recycling program, and by the 1990s, the Pleasant Mattress Company had switched to only making new mattresses under the name Cannon Sleep Products. Though much has changed over the years, the company is still