L&P Consumer Products on "Extreme Makeover"

November 30, 2011  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Community/Charitable Support on December 1, 2011

Leggett & Platt Consumer Products teamed with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, donating three Leggett & Platt Fashion Bed products to recently filmed shows.

The first donation, one of Leggett & Platt Fashion Bed brand's top-selling Euro platform beds, was included in the Nov. 18 episode. Donated to the Dunning family of Cool Spring, Del., the European-inspired, queen-size faux leather bed now adorns a bedroom in the family's new home.
 
One of the largest projects in the show's nearly eight-year history, the new Dunning home not only features high-quality bedroom decor and modern upgrades, it includes a soup kitchen for the family's ministry, Jusst Sooup Ranch. All soup prepared by the Dunnings in their soup kitchen feeds the hungry. 
 
"We were honored to participate in such an important episode. The Dunnings inspire hope for so many, and it was a privilege to be asked to contribute one of our products to their new beginning," said Rob Woods, president of Leggett & Platt Consumer Products Group. "On behalf of Leggett & Platt, we wish the Dunnings many great and lasting memories in their new home."
 
In addition to the Euro donation, Leggett & Platt Fashion Bed's Sasha and Miami ornamental beds will be part of a future episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, focusing on the rebuilding of Joplin, Mo. 
 
"Many Leggett & Platt employee partners live in Joplin as it is just a town over from our headquarters in Carthage, and many of our own employee partners were profoundly affected by the tornadoes back in May," Woods said. "The devastation was deeply felt within our corporate family as we lost one of our employee partners to Mother Nature"s destruction. Being involved in this episode was very important to us."