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Orange County Register
March
11, 2010
Relax The Back, headquartered in La Palma, is
joining the effort to provide beds to people
left homeless by the January earthquake in
Haiti.
Anatomic Global in Corona seeks is to raise
$7.4 million to make, transport and deliver
200,000 WorldBeds to homeless Haitians. A
WorldBed is a specially designed, cot-sized
3-inch-thick foam mattress that can be quickly
dispatched, in volume, to areas of need
worldwide.
For every Anatomic Global mattress purchased
at one of Relax The Back’s 110 stores, the
retailer will donate one WorldBed. Relax The
Back also sells WorldBed products on its web
site and in stores for $35 each to be delivered
to the relief effort. The promotion, called “Buy
a Bed Give a Bed,” will be included in Relax The
Back’s summer catalog.
The beds can also be donated directly (one
bed for $36; 50 for $1,750) at the WorldBed web
site.
“Anatomic Global came up with a very unique
concept in the way the sleep product industry
can help disaster victims all over the world,
and we wanted to be part of this noble
endeavor,” said Relax The Back Vice president
J.D. Nespoli.
Among the companies joining Anatomic Global
in the WorldBed Project are FXI Foamex
Innovations, Deslee Textiles USA, Royal
Packaging, Brookwood Companies and Parakletos
International. Anatomic Global has committed its
first quarter 2010 profits from all operations
to manufacture WorldBeds for Haitian relief.
To date 2,216 beds have been delivered to
Haiti and another 1,800 have been shipped,
according to Anatomic Global.
The initiative, which began in the aftermath
of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, seeks to provide
needed comfort, increased levels of health and
safety, and a more sanitary place to sleep in an
effort to speed recovery and aid in healing,
according to Anatomic Global.
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