EX-3.19 18 a2138958zex-3_19.htm EXHIBIT 3.19

Exhibit 3.19

 

 

FORM B

 

BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO EXECUTE THESE BLANKS BE SURE TO READ
CAREFULLY THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE BACK THEREOF.

 

(THESE ARTICLES MUST BE FILED IN DUPLICATE)

 

STATE OF ILLINOIS,

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ss.

COOK COUNTY

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To CHARLES F. CARPENTIER, Secretary of State:

 

We, the undersigned,

 

Name

 

Number

 

Street

 

Address
City

 

State

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Milton A. Levenfeld

 

209

 

South La Salle Street,

 

Chicago,

 

Illinois

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

being natural persons of the age of twenty-one years or more and subscribers to the shares of the corporation to be organized pursuant hereto, for the purpose of forming a corporation under “The Business Corporation Act” of the State of Illinois, do hereby adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:

 

ARTICLE ONE

 

The name of the corporation is:  A. Brandwein & Co.        

 

ARTICLE TWO

 

The address of its initial registered office in the State of Illinois is:  176 West Adams Street Street, in the City of Chicago (3) (zone)

County of Cook and the name of its initial Registered Agent at said address is: Leonard Pressman

 

ARTICLE THREE

 

The duration of the corporation is: perpetual

 

ARTICLE FOUR

 

The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized are:

 



 

to manufacture and sell mattresses, box springs, beds and related items, and in connection therewith to buy, sell, lease, mortgage, pledge and otherwise deal with personal property and real estate and to have all of the powers granted to a corporation under the Illinois Business Corporation Act.

 

ARTICLE FIVE

 

PARAGRAPH 1:  The aggregate number of shares which the corporation is authorized to issue is 100, divided into no classes.  The designation of each class, the number of shares of each class, and the par value, if any, of the shares of each class, or a statement that the shares of any class are without par value, are as follows:

 

Class

 

Series
(If any)

 

Number of
Shares

 

Par value per share or
statement that shares are
without par value

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common

 

 

 

100

 

$100 par value

 

PARAGRAPH 2:  The preferences, qualification, limitations, restrictions and the special or relative rights in respect of the shares of each class are:

 

ARTICLE SIX

 

The class and number of shares which the corporation proposes to issue without further report to the Secretary of State, and the consideration (expressed in dollars) to be received by the corporation therefor, are:

 

Class of shares

 

Number of shares

 

Total consideration to be
received therefore:

 

 

 

 

 

Common

 

10

 

$

1,000.00

 

 

 

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

$

 

 

ARTICLE SEVEN

 

The corporation will not commence business until at least one thousand dollars has been received as consideration for the issuance of shares.

 

ARTICLE EIGHT

 

The number of directors to be elected at the first meeting of the shareholders is:  three

 

ARTICLE NINE

 

PARAGRAPH 1:  It is estimated that the value of all property to be owned by the corporation for the following year wherever located will be $                         .

 

PARAGRAPH 2:  It is estimated that the value of all property to be located within the State of Illinois during the following year will be $                         .

 

PARAGRAPH 3:  It is estimated that the gross amount of business which will be transacted by the corporation during the following year will be $                         .

 

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PARAGRAPH 4:  It is estimated that the gross amount of business which will be transacted at or from places of business in the State of Illinois during the following year will be $                         .

 

/s/ Milton A. Levenfeld

 

Incorporators

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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OATH AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

 

STATE OF ILLINOIS,

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)

ss.

COOK COUNTY

)

 

 

I, Jeanne La Vigne, a Notary Public, do hereby certify that on the 6th day of March, 1964, Milton A. Levenfeld (Names of Incorporators)

 

 

personally appeared before me and being first duly sworn by me severally acknowledged that they signed the foregoing document in the respective capacities therein set forth and declared that the statements therein contained are true.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.

 

 

/s/ Jeanne La Vigne

 

Notary Public

 

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