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Texans with Character: Christine Cook
CBS11 News - December 30, 2011 - Christine talks about her mission to share the gift of sleep and the gift of warmth with families in need.

Simmons, Sleep Experts Present ComforPedic Loft Sleep Sets to Dallas Firemen
Furniture Today - December 19, 2011 - Simmons partnered with retailer Sleep Experts to present a surprise gift of new ComforPedic Loft sleep sets to a group of hard-working volunteer firemen.

Christmas in the Park Charity Event Provides Gifts and Necessities to Thousands
Dallas Morning News - December 18, 2011 - Sleep Experts donated 200 beds for this annual event benefitting South Dallas families in need.

KLTY Christmas Wish: Edgar
94.9 KLTY - December 15, 2011 - The 94.9 KLTY Christmas Wish, with the help of listeners, Sleep Experts and Schroeder's Import Automotive, we were able to grant Carinia's Christmas wish and got Edgar and his family back in an apartment after his house was destroyed in a fire.

Girl Collects Blankets for Homeless at Her Birthday Party
WFAA News8 - December 14, 2011 - Meredith Hallett held her birthday party at Sleep Experts and collected blankets for Share the Warmth.

She's the Boss: Sleep Experts President Christine Cook
CBS11 News - July 19, 2011 - Wife, Mom and President Christine Cook talks with CBS11 anchor Karen Borta about finding a deeper meaning by Sharing the Gift of Sleep with families in need.

Celebrating Mothers at Interfaith Housing Coalition
NeighborsGo.com - May 9, 2011 - On the evening of Friday May 6, Sleep Experts employee volunteers honored Mothers at Interfaith Housing Coalition during the third annual Mother's Day dinner and family fun night.

Sleep Experts Helps the Homeless
Good Morning Texas - WFAA Ch.8 - March 10, 2011 - Christine Cook joins Michael Faenza, President and CEO of Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, to announce a new partnership that will provide beds for homeless individuals and families as they make the transition into permanent housing.

Tour of Giving: Women Making a Difference
American Life Network - Spring 2010 - Watch this episode of HopeHelpHeal's Tour of Giving on American Life Network, featuring Christine Cook and Sleep Experts' Rest Assured program.

A Christmas Wish Come True
GodTube.com - December 15, 2010 - Angela wrote in to the KLTY Christmas Wish hoping for nothing more than prayers for her newly expanded family and that her nieces would see God's love. Not only is Angela going to receive a huge amount of prayers, but due to the generosity of the 94.9 KLTY listeners and Sleep Experts, we were able to grant Angela's wish. Watch this inspiring video!

Blankets Lend Warmth, Hope: HPHS Students Host Drive for Women's Shelter
Park Cities People - November 5, 2010 - Blankets. Whether they're strewn across the back of a couch or jammed into a trunk, most households seem to have more of them than they know what to do with.

Handing Out More than Great Presents
Dallas Morning News - December 19, 2010 - More than 700 volunteers were on hand for the 12th annual Christmas in the Park on Saturday, to lift the spirits of thousands who have been hard hit during the economic downturn. Sleep Experts donated 100 mattresses to help families in need.

Breakfast With D CEO: Christine Cook
D CEO Magazine - July/August 2010 - It's surely something of a marketing gimmick that Christine Cook's job title with mattress retailer Sleep Experts is "wife, mom, president." Regardless, she lived up to the billing when we met at Yummy Donuts on Lovers Lane in University Park.

Sleep Experts: A Company That Understands Customer Service
Lifestylist® Marketing Ideas - July 11, 2010 - When I needed at mattress set at the last minute for a model home for Champion Homes of Texas in Tulsa, I wasn't sure where to go. The budgets for model homes don't leave a lot in the bedding category so I needed something cost effective that would look big and fluffy to the buyer. Fortunately I happened to drive past a Sleep Expert Store and a new love affair was formed.

Soft Image is Just Right for Sleep Experts
Dallas Morning News - May 9, 2010 - Every mom deserves a good night's sleep. And no one believes that more than Christine Cook, a 40-year-old working mother of two elementary school-age kids who co-owns Dallas-based Sleep Experts LLP.

Sleep Experts' Christine Cook awarded by Interfaith Housing Coalition
Advocate Magazine - May 6, 2010 - Dallas nonprofit Interfaith Housing Coalition has named Preston Hollow resident Christine Cook of Sleep Experts a "Service Hero," recognizing her commitment to helping families in need through her company's mattress donation program.

One Mother Helping Another Mother Sleep
MySweet Charity - April 21, 2010 - D Magazine blogger Jean Prejean recognizes Sleep Experts' donation of a bed to a local woman paralyzed in a random stabbing while at the park with her children.

CEO Chris Cook talks with David Johnson on KRLD's CEO Spotlight
KRLD News Radio 1080 AM - March 12, 2010 - Listen to Sleep Experts CEO Chris Cook in an interview with business expert David Johnson on his CEO Spotlight radio show.

Donation aids Texas Baptist Home
Waxahachie Daily Light - March 6, 2010 - The Texas Baptist Home for Children, which will celebrate it 100th anniversary of operation June 12, recently received new mattresses, donated by local retailer Sleep Experts, for its newest foster home.

Mom Next Door: Sleep Experts' Christine Cook
Dallas Child Magazine - November 2009 - When she's not marketing her business, Cook masterminds Sleep Experts' philanthropic agenda, including the company's Rest Assured program (in which a customer's old mattress is donated to a local charity in need).

Sleep Experts and La-Z-Boy Bring Thanksgiving Early for Ronald McDonald House
D Magazine's "Sweet Charity" blog - November 10, 2009 - Christine Cook is the prez of Sleep Experts and she's the face on those television commercials about the in's and out's of mattress possibilities. She's way too cute. But she's also doing stuff off screen that makes her our new best friend.

Sleep Experts Collecting Blankets with Help from Athletes
The Southlake Journal - November 4, 2009 - Comforters are called comforters for a reason - they are comforting. We don't realize just how comforting until we don't have them any more.

Christine Cook named "Woman to Watch" by Dallas Business Journal
Dallas Business Journal - July 17, 2009 - The Dallas Business Journal is proud to present its second-annual Women in Business Awards publication...The 2009 awards recognize Changemakers: women executives and entrepreneurs who have effected significant changes in their companies, industries and communities; and the Top 25 Women to Watch: North Texas women professionals who have achieved outstanding success - and are poised to do more.

Multi-Generational Entrepreneurs Specialize in a Good Night's Sleep
SMU Cox School of Business - July 16, 2009 - Chris Cook (BBA '91) is the third generation in a family of entrepreneurs in the "sleep business." Cook's grandfather, a Colonel in the Army and decorated World War I veteran, sold adjustable beds door-to-door following the war. His father, Bob, started a chain of furniture stores in Dallas in 1977, and Cook grew up working summers and weekends in the stores.

Jumping on the bed: Samaritan Inn families treated to a little summer fun
McKinney Courier-Gazette - July 6, 2009 - Forget everything your mother told you about not jumping on the bed. Rule number one of Sleep Experts' Rest Assured team is, the bigger the bed the better the bounce. The team of about 15 employees headed out to the Samaritan Inn on Tuesday evening, July 30, to set up an enormous bounce house shaped like a bed.

Homeless mother of three receives "Extreme Makeover" home and a fresh start at Interfaith Housing Coalition
NeighborsGo.com - June 17, 2009 - Robin and her three children were anxious about their new living arrangements within the Interfaith Housing Coalition, an organization that provides transitional housing, programs and services to help Dallas-area families in poverty and homelessness.

Rest Assured Program Works to Recycle Old Mattresses
August 15, 2005 - As a family-owned business, Carrollton-based mattress retailer Sleep Experts embraces social and environmental responsibility as part of the company's mission and invites the community to drop off any old mattresses - at no charge - at the Sleep Experts Carrollton warehouse, located at 2853 Eisenhower St., Suite 400.