MyPillow opens new facility in Shakopee

Shakopee Valley News

Many people have seen the cardboard cutouts of MyPillow Inventor and CEO Mike Lindell cropping up around town, but the real deal just opened a new building in Shakopee.

The 171,000 square foot building is the fifth MyPillow facility in Shakopee, bringing the production and warehouse square footage to 415,000.

"We're geared up — we're making pillows, a lot of pillows," Lindell said.

The building combines the various aspects of making MyPillow products into one — there's a sewing center as well as a production line and retail space.

"We do everything," Lindell said. "We're very much from start to finish making every part of MyPillow."

On top of manufacturing the products, the building is also a showroom where customers can come and buy MyPillow products.

"You can get fitted for your pillow, you can get our new beds, our pet pillows, our sheets — I have the most amazing sheets that we developed," Lindell said. "We developed all the products ourselves and invented them all and they got to help people and they do."

Though the company had employees do some of the cutting and sewing of fabric on site previously, the machines in the new building allow that process to expand by quite a bit.

"We still do have a partner up in Forest Lakes — he's been with me 13 years — he does a lot of our cutting and sewing up there but we learned from him as grew and now we do a lot of it in-house and the majority of it in-house," Lindell said.

The new building makes about 35,000 per day with all the facilities making upwards of 70,000. There's capacity for about 120,000.

"We like to leave that room for expansion as we keep growing," Lindell said. "People always say to me, 'what's the best day you've ever had?' It's tomorrow."

The company is now up to 1,600 employees as well as seasonal to prepare for the holiday season. The company is used to expanding, Lindell said.

"We've expanded so many times where we go from, back in the day going from five to 500 employees, we went from 500 to 1,000, we went from 1,000 to 1,600, so we're very good at all these expansions," he said.

Lindell attributes the growth to the popularity of MyPillow products, which he said helps people.

"We view every customer at MyPillow like it's our only customer and I think with that ... (we're) blessed to be able to help them," Lindell said. "That's what MyPillow is all about and we just can't help but keep growing."

The building still has a few things yet to be completed, like bringing in some automated machines and building the storage for when the demand slows down a bit after the holidays.

"We're kind of doing it all over the place right now but it's all coming together," Lindell said.