The International Sleep Products Assn. says it led the way in developing a new ASTM voluntary crib mattress standard, which sets a size requirement for crib mattresses and establishes a test method to confirm the size. The new standard ...
Tags: Crib Mattress, Light Industry
At Consumer Reports we have long cautioned about the rising and falling prices of mattresses. Little did we know that we'd experience those markups and discounts in our own mattress tests. After checking our mattress Ratings recently, a ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — It was a good week for the bedding industry on the mattress recycling front. In Connecticut, the nation's first mattress recycling bill was signed into law by Conn. Gov. Dannel Malloy. The bill, supported by the ...
Ryan Trainer, president of the International Sleep Products Assn., urges conference attendees to contact their elected officials when asked to lobby for industry-supported recycling measures. CHANDLER, Ariz. -States around the country are ...
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The Connecticut Senate gave overwhelming approval this week to a mattress recycling bill supported by the International Sleep Products Assn. The bill, which authorizes an industry-led non-profit organization to create and run a mattress ...
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Here's some mattress marketing gold from a survey that Furniture Today conducted with its research partner, Apartment Therapy. Newer mattresses have higher sleep satisfaction scores than older mattresses. In fact, the newest mattresses ...
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Attendees at Furniture/Today's upcoming Bedding Conference here will be taking a tour of the TGen research facility that is on the front lines of the fight against pancreatic cancer and other deadly diseases. The tour of the TGen facility ...
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Top 10 bedding producer Kingsdown has established a new value-priced bedding line under the Sleep Comfort banner. Retails range from $199 to $799. The line launched last fall and is positioned as a high-quality option in the low-cost ...
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Rock Hill, S.C.-based Springs Creative Products Group LLC's Specialty Products division — a supplier of fabrics and chemicals, including Firegard® flame-barrier fabrics, to the mattress industry — and Devan Chemicals NV, a ...
Top 10 bedding producer Kingsdown has established a new value-priced bedding line under the Sleep Comfort banner. Retails range from $199 to $799. The line launched last fall and is positioned as a high-quality option in the low-cost ...
The bedding industry took a dismal turn in February, with units declining 7.4% and the dollar value of wholesale shipments dropping 6.7%. For the first two months of the year, units are down 3.9% while dollars are down 3.2%, according to ...
Tags: Bedding Sales, bed, furniture
This is the Beautyrest Recharge Station at the new Sit 'n Sleep Store in Chino Hills, Calif.CHINO HILLS, Calif. - Mattress powerhouse Sit 'n Sleep recently opened its 29th store here and is gunning for more growth in the sprawling Southern ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
This is the list of problems that the mattress industry must solve to give all consumers a good night of sleep. What is striking to us is the relatively small percentage of consumers - just 15% - reporting no problems getting a good night ...
The mattress industry will record a 4% gain in unit shipments this year, while the wholesale value of those shipments will jump by 6.8%. Those are the predictions of Furniture/Today's Consensus Bedding Forecast, which reflects the views ...
Tags: mattress industry, unit shipments, furniture
The epidemic of sleeplessness that haunts Americans is vividly sketched in these survey findings. Consumers are nodding off or falling sound asleep in all sorts of places: In the movie theater, at work, watching their kids, at parties, in ...