25,000 Thanks

30 Days, 265 Beds, and $25,000.00. We at Aristocrat Motors cannot express enough thanks for our customers, partners, and employees for helping us in our effort to support Sleepyhead Beds these past few months.

Several months ago, we met Monica Starr, the founder of Sleepyhead Beds, an organization that seeks to provide the 1 in 42 children in Kansas City that don’t have a place to sleep a bed of their own. When we sat down with her we set a goal to raise 125 beds at each of the Mercedes-Benz dealers in Kansas City to celebrate the 125^th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz.

We called on all hands to make these bed drives a success, raising 265 beds between the stores with help from our customers, employees, and advertising partners. Because of these efforts, there are 265 kids in Kansas City that are sleeping soundly tonight.

Shortly after our bed drives, Mercedes-Benz USA launched the Community Stars contest, a social media event that asked charities to submit short videos in an attempt to win one of five $25,000 grants. What must have been hundred of charities sent in entries, and fifteen were picked.

Lucky enough for us, Sleepyhead Beds was picked to be in those final 15, whose videos would be shown on the Mercedes-Benz Facebook page for 2 weeks, with users allowed to vote for their favorites. At the end of the voting, the top 5 most popular videos would each win $25,000.

We called on everyone: customers, employees, complete strangers, to vote for Sleepyhead Beds. On October 26^th voting was closed, and we were put in the dark until yesterday.

Yesterday at 4:45pm Mercedes-Benz announced that Sleepyhead Beds was chosen as one of the winning entries.

The road to where we are now has been a long one, with many hours spent planning, promoting, and delivering beds. None of it could be possible without such amazing support. Thank you for stepping up and showing us that while our corporate slogan might be “The Best or Nothing”, we really are nothing without the best customers.

Aristocrat Motors is a Merriam, KS based automotive dealership selling and servicing Mercedes-Benz, smart, Saab, Porsche, Land Rover, Jaguar, and Maserati products. We are available on the web at www.aristocratmotors.com , on Facebook at: www.Facebook.com/AristocratMotors, and on twitter at www.twitter.com/AristocratKC .