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Bed & Bath Bed & Bath, Inc, a Florida corporation, (bedbathusa.com) is a fully owned subsidiary of Bädd & Bad AB (bed-bath.com) a family owned business of Helsingborg. Sweden. The group has offices in Helsingborg, Sweden, Naples, FL and warehouses in Helsingborg, Sweden, Hamburg, Germany and Miami, Florida. The product mix on offer includes bed & bath textiles, beds, small appliances and other pieces of equipment for hotel and home use. Bädd & Bad AB, which was founded in 1969, started by importing American manufactured tufted bath rugs from Commercial Mills of Dalton, GA to the home furnishing company IKEA if Sweden. A few years later the company became the exclusive European distributor of Cannon Mills, Inc of NYC. Later Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc and finally Pillowtex Corporation. During the following years Bed & Bath was selling Fieldcrest Cannon products to several concession stores around Europe including Harrods, London, Selfridges, London, La Rinacente, Milan and Rome, Illum Copenhagen, KaDeWe, Berlin, NK, Stockholm. El Corte Ingles, Spain, Ditzinger, Stockholm etc.

Pillowtex Corporation filed for bankruptcy protection, Chapter 11, in 2003. After the Pillowtex Corporation went bankrupt, the Bed & Bath group of companies created its own lines of bed & bath textiles with brand names like, SCANDINAVIAN WHITE, GRAND LUXE, SCANDINAVIAN BLACK etc. Small appliances, rollaway beds, and rollaways cribs and other pieces of equipment are sold under the brand name EDWARD. Today Bed & Bath focuses primarily on sales to the hospitality sector but has increasing sales to consumers through their web sites bedbathusa.com and bed-bath.com