It’s been a three-year journey but David Bursteen and Ines Brigman, owners of Legends Home Bedding, were recently informed their Elvis Presley bedding collection will be sold in select Wal-Mart Stores this fall.
The Legends duo won the retailer’s Get-On-The-Shelf competition in 2013 after entering just 48 hours before the deadline. Getting the Elvis inspired bedding into Wal-Mart’s physical stores has always been a goal of this team who first pitched their products to Wal-Mart in a letter addressed to Dear Buyer back in 2012.
Bursteen said the in-store launch to 200 Wal-Mart’s will run through November and December and represents the commitment awarded from Wal-Mart for Legends winning the 2013 product search competition run by Walmart.com. He said Walmart Stores will feature prominent displays of the Elvis Presley Home Bedding Collection in several designs including one in Wal-Mart’s signature blue.
“We look forward to creating a successful venture this fall with Wal-Mart and have plans to expand our brand by introducing additional legends to our bedding line in the future,” he said. “Everyone we have worked with in this process has been incredibly helpful.” Ines Brigman and David Bursteen, founders of Legends Home Bedding of Hollywood, Calif., have spent three years trying to get their licensed Elvis inspired bedding into Wal-Mart Stores. The company will debut its “Silver Edition” bedding exclusively in 200 Walmart Stores this fall as well as on Walmart.com. Legends Home Bedding was one of the two grand champion winners in the 2013 Get-On-The-Shelf competition by Walmart.com.
He said the next logical legend would likely be Marilyn Monroe and her licensing is handled by New York-based Authentic Brands, which also handles the Elvis licensing, which Legends has renewed for three more years.
He told The City Wire in 2014 that the product involves a new category in bedding, which has somewhat complicated its going direct to brick and mortar stores. He said there is no licensed adult bedding category to speak of as most of this business has gravitated toward children’s bedding.
Bursteen told The City Wire that Wal-Mart seemed to understand there is demand for the product and built in fan bases with American legends such as Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe. When Legends notified the Elvis Presley Foundation while in the competition, the fan support was instant.
“When our bedding popped up on their Facebook page it got 68,000 likes and 4,500 comments in 24 hours,” Bursteen said. “Fans are already asking us on Facebook in which stores the bedding will be available.”
The company has continued to use social media sites to engage Elvis fans and to test new design ideas.
He and Brigman met with Wal-Mart bedding buyers in Bentonville in April 2014 and have kept working with them over the past 13 months to come up with the products and price terms that work for both parties.
The Legends bedding has been a favored item on Walmart.com and also is sold on Amazon and online at Bed, Bath & Beyond and roughly 70 online retailers. While the partners are grateful for their online sales they believe getting the merchandise into physical Wal-Mart Stores will help to cross merchandise the bedding with his music and hopefully bring Elvis impersonators in stores if the retailer will allow.
To that point, Wal-Mart CEOs Doug McMillon and Greg Foran have each talked about their plans to bring “retailtainment” back into supercenters.
“Sometimes we have to pinch ourselves to make sure this is real. We are about to get our product in Wal-Mart Stores and that’s pretty cool,” Bursteen said.
One of the longest delays in the entire process was to find a Wal-Mart authorized manufacturer.
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ReplyDeleteThe Legends duo won the retailer’s Get-On-The-Shelf competition in 2013 after entering just 48 hours before the deadline. Getting the Elvis inspired bedding into Wal-Mart’s physical stores has always been a goal of this team who first pitched their products to Wal-Mart in a letter addressed to Dear Buyer back in 2012.
Bursteen said the in-store launch to 200 Wal-Mart’s will run through November and December and represents the commitment awarded from Wal-Mart for Legends winning the 2013 product search competition run by Walmart.com. He said Walmart Stores will feature prominent displays of the Elvis Presley Home Bedding Collection in several designs including one in Wal-Mart’s signature blue.
“We look forward to creating a successful venture this fall with Wal-Mart and have plans to expand our brand by introducing additional legends to our bedding line in the future,” he said. “Everyone we have worked with in this process has been incredibly helpful.”
Ines Brigman and David Bursteen, founders of Legends Home Bedding of Hollywood, Calif., have spent three years trying to get their licensed Elvis inspired bedding into Wal-Mart Stores. The company will debut its “Silver Edition” bedding exclusively in 200 Walmart Stores this fall as well as on Walmart.com. Legends Home Bedding was one of the two grand champion winners in the 2013 Get-On-The-Shelf competition by Walmart.com.
He said the next logical legend would likely be Marilyn Monroe and her licensing is handled by New York-based Authentic Brands, which also handles the Elvis licensing, which Legends has renewed for three more years.
He told The City Wire in 2014 that the product involves a new category in bedding, which has somewhat complicated its going direct to brick and mortar stores. He said there is no licensed adult bedding category to speak of as most of this business has gravitated toward children’s bedding.
Bursteen told The City Wire that Wal-Mart seemed to understand there is demand for the product and built in fan bases with American legends such as Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe. When Legends notified the Elvis Presley Foundation while in the competition, the fan support was instant.
“When our bedding popped up on their Facebook page it got 68,000 likes and 4,500 comments in 24 hours,” Bursteen said. “Fans are already asking us on Facebook in which stores the bedding will be available.”
The company has continued to use social media sites to engage Elvis fans and to test new design ideas.
He and Brigman met with Wal-Mart bedding buyers in Bentonville in April 2014 and have kept working with them over the past 13 months to come up with the products and price terms that work for both parties.
The Legends bedding has been a favored item on Walmart.com and also is sold on Amazon and online at Bed, Bath & Beyond and roughly 70 online retailers. While the partners are grateful for their online sales they believe getting the merchandise into physical Wal-Mart Stores will help to cross merchandise the bedding with his music and hopefully bring Elvis impersonators in stores if the retailer will allow.
To that point, Wal-Mart CEOs Doug McMillon and Greg Foran have each talked about their plans to bring “retailtainment” back into supercenters.
“Sometimes we have to pinch ourselves to make sure this is real. We are about to get our product in Wal-Mart Stores and that’s pretty cool,” Bursteen said.
One of the longest delays in the entire process was to find a Wal-Mart authorized manufacturer.