69-year-old furniture store chain files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Certain furnishings and mattress retailers are facing fiscal distress successful 2026, aft the manufacture had occurrence successful 2025.

The furnishings manufacture showed affirmative income results successful 2025, arsenic the Top 100 retailers posted a 0.9% combined income summation to $51.2 billion, based connected furniture, bedding, and accessories, aft a two-year decline, according to Furniture Today.

The U.S. furniture and mattress stores assemblage besides performed good past year, navigating a play of dependable growth, with gross rising by 1.3% to $28.4 cardinal twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth successful 2025, according to IbisWorld analysis.

Despite favorable income and gross results successful 2025, a classical retailer faced distress and was forced to record for bankruptcy extortion arsenic June began.

Ortho Mattress files for bankruptcy

Iconic mattress and furnishings retail concatenation Ortho Mattress filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to reorganize its business.

The 69-year-old retailer filed its Subchapter V petition successful the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California successful Woodland Hills connected June 1, listing $1 cardinal to $10 cardinal successful assets and $10 cardinal to $50 cardinal successful liabilities.

The debtor did not authorities a crushed for filing for bankruptcy successful its petition.

The Cerritos, Calif.-based debtor's largest creditors see E.S. Kluft & Co., owed implicit $165,000; Simmons Manufacturing Co., owed implicit $108,000; Mann Enterptrises Inc., owed implicit $95,000; Warehouse Discount Center, owed implicit $87,000; Enriquez Materials Quilting, owed implicit $83,000; Mills Realty, owed implicit $82,000; and Hawthorne Gateway LP, owed implicit $73,000, according to tribunal papers.

Debtor operates successful California and Arizona

Ortho Mattress, which was founded successful Gardena, Calif., successful 1957, operates 23 retail locations successful California and Arizona, according to its website.

At 1 time, the mattress and furnishings concatenation had implicit 60 locations, according to its website.

The retailer merged with W. Simmons Industries successful 1996, was renamed WE Bedding successful 1997, and was acquired by Hugh Street Holdings successful 1998. The institution was renamed Ortho Mattress successful 2004, according to a past timeline connected its website.

The institution bought the assets of Simmons Mattress Gallery successful 2006, moved each manufacturing to California successful 2007, and expanded manufacturing to Arizona successful 2018. It besides relocated its office to Cerritos.

SuperNova Furniture files bankruptcy

Another longtime determination furnishings chain, Humble, Texas-based SuperNova Furniture, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to reorganize its concern connected April 15, according to PacerMonitor.