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-Simmons Adds Star Power to Its Advertising- ATLANTA, April 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Simmons Bedding Company announced today at High Point Market the impending launch of two new advertising campaigns for its Beautyrest(®) and Comforpedic(®) From Beautyrest(®) brands. These campaigns combined are expected to deliver a staggering 2.2 billion targeted consumer impressions and be viewed approximately 14 times by 96 percent of the brands' target audience. Ads are scheduled to hit the...

-Firefighters from historic stations accept 16 new mattresses for fire station bunkroom- ATLANTA, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday, Simmons Bedding Company ("Simmons") launched its Firehouse Recharge Atlanta initiative, a campaign to donate 275 beds to the 30 stations that comprise the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department (AFRD). Firehouse Recharge Atlanta kicked off at Stations 25 and 30 in South Atlanta, where Simmons outfitted the stations' sleeping quarters with a total of 16...

Only Library School in New England Ranked Nationally; Archives & Preservation Rated #1 Program BOSTON, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) has been ranked among the nation's top 10 schools of library and information studies in the new U.S.News & World Report 2014 edition of "Best Graduate Schools." Simmons GSLIS also is ranked in the #1 position for Archives and Preservation, and was listed...

BOSTON, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jennifer Siebel Newsom, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, actress, and advocate for women and girls, will deliver the Simmons College 108(th) Commencement address Friday, May 10 at Bank of America Pavilion in Boston. Siebel Newsom is the writer, producer, and director of the 2011 Sundance documentary film Miss Representation, which explores how the media's inaccurate portrayals of women have led to the under-representation of women in...

More than 300 leaders from the bedding manufacturer attended the half-day program in Henderson, NV Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 12, 2013 Atlanta, Feb. 12, 2013—The Atlanta-based global management firm, Afterburner, Inc., was the featured training for 325 Simmons executives at the company’s national meeting last week. The powerful event began with a keynote by Afterburner founder & CEO, Jim “Murph” Murphy. The former F-15 instructor pilot and published author led the audience...

NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Media, music, fashion, philanthropic and entertainment mogul, Russell Simmons, announced plans to create "greenROKS Ventures." The company is an incubator of youth entertainment properties and multi-media platforms and will launch with the first in a series of preteen-teen mobile games, greenROKS(TM) - "Mission G-ROK" in spring of 2013. Simmons says, "Entertainment is what resonates quickest with youth, which today means online and mobile...

NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Experian Marketing Services announced today its latest Consumer Expectation Index (CEI) figures for the first half of 2012. According to the CEI, U.S. consumers' forward-looking view of the economy is at its highest level since the onset of the recession. The CEI is based on weekly results from the trusted Experian Simmons National Consumer Study, for which 25,000 adults are surveyed annually. The survey results cover nearly 60,000 data...

BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Simmons Browder Gianaris Angelides & Barnerd LLC, a nationwide leader in asbestos litigation, announced today that a New York jury has awarded a $3 million verdict to the family of Gerald Suttner, a pipefitter who died from mesothelioma, an incurable cancer caused by asbestos exposure. For more than a decade, Suttner was exposed to asbestos used in valves manufactured by the defendant, Crane Co. Simmons Firm attorneys Myles Epperson...

BOSTON, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Simmons College has been named a "Best College" by U.S.News & World Report in its 2013 edition of the "America's Best Colleges" guidebook. Simmons ranked in the top tier of schools in the Regional Universities North category. This is the third premier rankings organization to cite Simmons for excellence in the past two months. Simmons was featured in The Princeton Review's 2013 college guidebook as one of the nation's "Best 377...

ALTON, Ill., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Simmons Firm, a national litigation firm known for handling complex, toxic exposure cases, filed suit today on behalf of private property owners in Roxana, Ill., against Shell Oil Company, ConocoPhillips, and WRB Refining LP. The Roxana property owners allege that carcinogenic chemicals, including benzene, released from the Wood River Oil Refinery have contaminated their properties. They seek compensation for that damage and other...