(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG

It took a global pandemic to make a more than 90-year-old Beloit company an overnight sensation. “COVID was a tremendous boon for this company,” Beloit Mattress Company co-owner Ryan Poppie said of the COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2020. Beloit Mattress was started in 1929, but has been owned by the Poppie family since 1954. MORE INFO