Babies account for a large number of avoidable deaths during accidents. That's why choosing the safest car seat must be your priority when you get around to shopping for car seats for babies. Research has shown that serious injury or death ...
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Choosing the best car seats for twins has been a hustle for parents with a double blessing. In most cases parents have resulted to using two distinct car seats for each twin. In the recent past however, we have seen new entrants in the car ...
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How did you sleep last night? That's a good opening question when a retail sales associate welcomes a customer into his or her mattress department or mattress shop. It gets right at the key issue of quality of sleep, and providing a good ...
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Simmons partnered with Sleep Country/Mattress Discounters here to replace 31 beds in the Jubilee Women's Center, a nonprofit that helps women transition from homelessness into independent living. Simmons also donated ComforPedic from ...
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Bedding producer Dormeo Octaspring has named Jason Broyles chief financial officer for its North American operations, a new position. He has more than 20 years of financial experience, most recently as CFO at Hunter Mfg., a producer and ...
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Most mattress retail sales associates have at least an hour of down time in a typical work day, a survey of RSAs done for Leggett & Platt reveals. And one-third of those RSAs have more than three hours of down time a day. Mark Quinn, ...
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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 ...
That hour of sleep that Americans gave up last weekend with the advent of Daylight Saving Time comes with a steep economic cost, according to a study commissioned by cushioning major Carpenter Co. The cost: $434 million. Carpenter Co. and ...
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Germany-based global sportlifestyle brand PUMA has introduced the Usain Bolt line of men's athletic apparel featuring Santa Monica, Calif.-based Hologenix LLC's Celliant technology. The line is named for Usain Bolt, the ...
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Hickory Springs' new ProACT innerspring unit is available in 357 and 396 coil counts. HICKORY, N.C. — Components manufacturer Hickory Springs has expanded its ProACT line of innerspring products with the introduction of a 7-inch ...
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The NASA Mars rover Curiosity is running again after engineers put it to sleep for a day this week to protect it from a powerful solar storm. On Tuesday, the sun unleashed what appeared to be a major blast of radiation and solar wind, ...
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The hour of sleep you'll lose Sunday morning when your clock springs forward might do more than just make you cranky. Some research suggests it translates into more car crashes and even heart attacks on Monday morning, thanks to worsened ...
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The all-new Renault Clio RS 200 EDC takes the light hot-hatch segment to an entirely new level. Whether it can still satisfy the Renault Sport purists is a different question, however. Unlike the previous two generations of Renault Clio ...
In our exclusive 93-page report Consumer Buying Trends, Furniture Today presents the most detailed information available on consumer furniture shopping and buying plans, including specific data for 22 home furnishings products--bedding, ...
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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 ...
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