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Business Directory publication date isapproaching!
Review your listing in the Directory and the NonprofitGuide today. The deadline to submit changes is 5:00 p.m.on Friday, February 21, 2020.
You can view the Directory here. Send any changes for the Directory to Amber West [email protected].
You can view the Nonprofit Guide here. Send any changes for the Nonprofit Guide to TaylorRitchie at [email protected].
Important Dates Click each title to learn more
Young Professionals...Arbor Day 2/21 @ 11 a.m. At Parks Hoke Park DATE CHANGE! Day at the Capitol - 2/26 @ 7:30 a.m.
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Technology SquareTable - 2/28 @ noonWashington DC Issues and Opportunities Trip 2020 - 3/3- 3/5Economic Briefing - 3/6 @ 8:15 a.m.Small Business Action Council - 3/10 @ 8:30 a.m. Monthly Member Meeting - 3/13 @ 11:00 a.m.Ribbon Cutting - Travel by Jon and Jo'El - 3/17 @ noon
Member of the WeekOglethorpe Power
Oglethorpe Power's mission is to serve their EMC Memberswith excellence and integrity, to maintain open andfrequent communications with those Members, and to be good stewards oftheir investment in energy assets by providing clean, safe, reliable andaffordable electricity.
https://opc.com/
Nonprofit of the WeekBlood Assurance
Blood Assurance is a non-profit, full-service local blood center serving FloydMedical Center and Redmond Regional Medical Center. The donorcenter is located in the Midway Crossing Shopping Center.
https://www.bloodassurance.org/
Small Business of the WeekMelissa Eldridge State Farm Insurance Agency
Melissa Eldridge's State Farm Insurance Agency is proud toprovide insurance for the businesses and families of our community. They providetheir customers with individual insurance, family insurance and business insurancethroughout Floyd County and neighboring areas including; Coosa, Lindale, Livingston,Silver Creek, Woodcliffe Estates and more.
https://www.insureme24-7.com/
Chamber Advantage Deal
The Canoe House- 10% off total purchase.
Would you like to offer a discount? Email Jeanne Krueger at [email protected] for details. For a full list ofChamber Advantage discounts, click here.
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DATE CHANGE!
Join the Rome Floyd Chamber of the Annual Day at the Capitol trip. Registerhere.
Read more about the Day at the Capitol trip and Washington D.C. Trip here.
Ribbon Cutting
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Floyd Medical Center celebrates its partnership with Southeastern Mills with aRibbon Cutting Ceremony.
Small Business Action Council
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Thank you, Serena Stevenson, Vice President HR-Staff Development at CoosaValley Credit Union, for talking to our Small Business Action Council aboutSmall Business Human Resources.
Monthly Member Meeting
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We had a great Monthly Member Meeting last week. The group heard fromChamber Staff about upcoming events and upcoming priorities at the Day atthe Capitol trip and the Washington D.C. trip. Read more about the meetinghere.
Noteworthy:
Heritage Sleep Concepts booking in largenew plant
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Rome News-Tribune: Leaders at Heritage Sleep Concepts are not sleeping on their laurels aftermaking the move to a new production center in Armuchee.
The bedding manufacturer purchased the former Capitoline Products buildingadjacent to Richard B. Russell Regional Airport last year, making a $2.4million investment in the future of the company.
The company started more than 90 years ago in Polk County as SanfordMattress Co. It morphed into Spears Mattress Co. and moved to Rome. At onepoint, the company was the largest independent mattress maker in theSoutheast, producing as many as 1,700 mattresses a day as Spears Mattress.
Spears operated from the early 1970s through 2008, when it was sold to anOhio-based private equity group.
"They bought it and we ran it for them until 2011," said Frankie Beck, chiefoperating officer and son-in-law to Terry Spears.
Beck and Spears were let go with the sales manager in 2011. Three years laterthe company filed for bankruptcy.
About that time, a noncompete clause in the sales contract went away and Beckwas able to find property on Excelsior Street, where Heritage Sleep Conceptswas born.
Terry and Glenda Spears met with other industry executives in 2015 to developHeritage Sleep Concepts, which also manufactures the Eastman House andEclipse brands of bedding.
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Eastman House was founded in Burlington, Iowa, in 1866 and grew from aregional manufacturer and distributor into a nationally recognized company. Itwas acquired 13 years ago by Mattress Development Corp., the licensing andmarketing arm of Eclipse and other brands. Eclipse Sleep Products wasfounded in 1905 and has 21 plants around the world.
When the company revealed plans to acquire the 120,000-square-footCapitoline Products facility, COO Frankie Beck said equipment would bemoved in phases. The idea was to create as little disruption as possible to themanufacturing process and capacity to ship the product.
At that time Beck said he had added another 30 or so employees to theworkforce and anticipated bringing on more.
"A lot of the people that had built relationships with Terry over the yearsfigured out we were back in business so they came back on board with us,"Beck said.
In the last year or so, the company has picked up deals with Macy's, The Dumpand Farmer's Furniture.
"This has been a phenomenal year that we have had," Beck said. "I would saywe're at about 60 employees now."
The old Capitoline Products building is more than double the size of theproperty on Excelsior Street and has another 10 acres of property, so there isplenty of room for the company to grow.
Beck said the new company set sales records every month in 2019 and theirown Heritage Sleep line has really taken off in the last two years.
"The whole process of making a mattress has changed pretty dramatically overthe years," he said. "Separate box springs are pretty much passe. Everything isnow included in the mattress, from the springs to the foam."
The company also shifted its target buyer slightly, from economy customers tothe middle and middle-upper end.
"We make a better product now," Beck said. "There is such a huge demand fora better product because people don't want go out and buy a bed and replace itin a year."
Now some of the mattresses are as much as 13 inches thick. Others are as thinas eight inches.
Another big change is that many mattresses now are one-sided, with a thinwooden base on the bottom. Beck said the issue with that is, when a customerwears out that side of the bed they have to go out and buy a new mattress.
Heritage has resurrected the doubled-sided mattresses and he said they'reenjoying considerable success because there is still a strong demand for them.
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Beck also said that just about every mattress the company makes can be usedin newer adjustable bed frames. A big factor there involves use of 100% naturallatex in the foam.
"It is antimicrobial, antifungal and antiallergenic ... Air is able to pass throughthe foam, which keeps the user from getting all hot and sweaty while laying inbed," Beck said.
Heritage has also made significant investments in equipment andmaintenance. And many of the employees have been with the company formany years.
Beck said a lot of former employees who were put out of a job when the privateequity firm folded the old plant in the Celanese community have come backand rejoined the Heritage team.
Remembering Nelle Reagan : A Pioneer ofRadio
WRGA: We are sad to have to report that our friend and colleague Nelle Reagan passedaway Friday morning, February 7, 2020.
Nelle Reagan's radio career began by accident in 1960 when Jim Mcree fromWPLK in Rockmart, visited her family's business on a sales call. Jim suggestedNelle had a good radio voice and wanted her to come by WPLK and do somewomen's news.
She fell in love with radio and knew that was what she was meant to do. Shewon the Associated Press Award for Outstanding Broadcasting for Local Newsher first year. She later moved to a disc jockey format mornings andafternoons.
Nelle moved her family to Rome in 1967, to work at WROM AM/ FM. Thereshe helped change the easy listening format to rock and roll. She later went to
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WLAQ AM as an air personality & assistant program director for 15 years.In 1998 Nelle started "Talk Of The Town," on WRGA AM, which has sincebecome a staple for community news and information in Rome. She also servedas the public affairs director for 7 properties owned by Rome Radio PartnersLLC.
Nelle served on many community boards and loved that radio allowed her totell the world about good and important things.
From Henderson and Sons Funeral HomeMrs. Martha Linnell "Nelle" Holland Reagan, age 84, of Rome, GA, passedaway Friday morning, February 7, 2020, at her residence.
Mrs. Reagan was born in Paulding County, GA on January 1, 1936, daughter ofthe late James Henry Holland and the late Lois Locklear Holland. She was alsopreceded in death by her husband of nearly 62 years, Junior LeBron Reagan onApril 9, 2014, by a sister, Sarah Anne Holland Campbell, and by a son-in-law,Kenneth David Barton.
She began her radio career in 1960 with WPLK in Rockmart. Prior to herillness, she was the host for "Talk of the Town" on WRGA Radio. Nelle washonored many times during her illustrious career including being inducted intothe Georgia Radio Hall of Fame in 2013. She was involved in many communityprograms and loved and promoted community activities in Rome and FloydCounty. Mrs. Reagan was a member of West Rome United Methodist Church.Survivors include her daughter, Lynne Reagan Barton, Rome; her son, JamesLebron "Jimmy" Reagan, Sarasota, FL; her two grandsons, Nicholas Barton,Kansas City, KS, and David Barton, Rome; nieces and nephews.
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