National Bed Federation (NBF) membership has passed the 100 mark, with a total of 65 UK bed and mattress manufacturers and 36 suppliers to the association. The approved trade body has seen membership double in the last 10 years. Some of ...
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The National Bed Federation (NBF) has launched a pioneering Introduction to Beds course to provide the ultimate backgrounder for anyone and everyone joining the industry. Hosted within its online Sleep Council Sales Academy (SCSA) ...
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The sleeping habits of teens comes under scrutiny ahead of the exam season as The Sleep Council launches the results of its latest survey. According to the research published on 27th March: In the month leading up to exams the ...
Britain's top sleep experts agree that enjoying an extra hour in bed on National Sleep Day (Sunday 26th October) will have a beneficial impact. With the clocks set to go back an hour this weekend, The Sleep Council asked leading experts ...
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Royal warrant holder, Hypnos Beds, found success at the National Bed Federation annual awards ceremony, by taking home two prestigious awards. After months of consideration by the expert judging panel, Hypnos was named as Bed Manufacturer ...
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This September The Sleep Council will revisit its successful Sleeptember campaign to highlight the healthy benefits of a good night’s sleep. The Sleep Council is urging retailers and manufacturers to get behind the campaign, and is ...
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The Sleep Council has launched a new month-long consumer awareness campaign, 'May be time for a new mattress', to highlight why it may be time to swap an old mattress for a new, comfortable, supportive one. The Sleep Council is urging ...
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Professor Ellis, who runs the Sleep Research Centre at Northumbria University, celebrated his new Professor status in the presence of world leading industry peers at an inauguration ceremony at Northumbria University on 2nd April. Jason ...
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National Bed Federation's (NBF) Comes in New Avatar The look for the new National Bed Federation's (NBF) 'big tick' makes the mark of approval to be buying a safe, clean and honest product from a reputable manufacturer. That's the ...
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Top 15 bedding producer Restonic has named Julia Rosien to the newly created position of brand engineer. She will report to Ron Passaglia, president of Restonic. Rosien, a communications and social media specialist who is the chairman of ...
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We wrap up this series of reports on Better Sleep Council research with this fascinating question: Can people train themselves to get by on less sleep? It turns out that fully 40% of consumers think that is the case, while 33% say they ...
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Now we begin a new series of reports on some fascinating findings from the Better Sleep Council, the bedding industry's education arm. The BSC does consumer surveys on a regular basis to judge Americans' sentiment on a variety of sleep ...
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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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The Better Sleep Council only asked this question of consumers who don't sleep in separate bedrooms, which is the vast majority of consumers. You will recall that in a recent Selling Sleep report, we noted that 9% of consumers responding to ...
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The latest research by the Sleep Council has been featured across a raft of national consumer print and broadcast media. The industry body is funded by the bed industry to raise the profile of sleep with the overarching aim of promoting ...
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