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Housing Activity Offers a Useful Signal for Mattress Retailers

The housing market may be giving mattress retailers a modest reason to pay attention this spring.




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Louis Shanks Furniture Closes After 78 Years in Business

NEWS RELEASE AUSTIN, Texas (Sept. 19, 2023) — An iconic retail brand throughout Texas and...

Buying Behavior, Part 4: The Purchase Experience

Consumer preference for online mattress buying continues to rise, but brick-and-mortar stores remain important,...

Sleep Number Closing at Least 40 Stores in 2024

Last week, Minneapolis-based bed and mattress manufacturer Sleep Number announced its sales results for...

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Pleasant Mattress Creates Collection for The Sleep Shop

Pleasant Mattress, an independent mattress manufacturer, is crafting private label mattress collections for independent retailers seeking competitive differentiation in their markets. As a licensee for...

Spring Air Redesigns Adjustable Bases to Resemble Furniture

Spring Air International is complementing its high-end Chattam & Wells line with the introduction of two adjustable bed bases modeled after traditional bedroom furniture,...

Standard Fiber and 37.5 Technology Strengthen Partnership

Standard Fiber has expanded its collaboration with 37.5 Technology, a leader in sustainable thermoregulation material science, to offer a broader scope of bedding products made with...

Gardner-White Makes Strategic Management Changes

Gardner-White, a furniture and mattress retailer based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, has announced three new strategic management appointments as the 108-year-old family-owned and operated...

Restonic Sleep Study to Help Retailers Refine Strategies

Two groups of women, in particular, could use retailers’ help — and a new mattress to improve their sleep. Younger and middle-aged women are suffering...

Therapedic Honors Licensees & Retailers

The accolades for the companies in Australia and New Zealand had been put on hold because of the pandemic. Therapedic International has honored several licensees...

Corsicana’s Sale to Blue Torch Capital Final

Corsicana Mattress Company has been acquired by Blue Torch Finance through a court-supervised auction under section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The court,...

Almost Half of Retailers More Optimistic About Sales Trends

Piper Sandler August survey shows double-digit dollar and unit declines, but finds positive indicators. Retail mattress sales posted double-digit dollar and unit declines in August,...

Results of ISPA September Optimism Index Are Positive

The results of the September International Sleep Products Association Bedding Industry Optimism Index show a more optimistic outlook, both in the short- and the...

Kingsdown on the Rise

The Mebane, North Carolina-based bedding producer meets the needs of a changing mattress marketplace. Kingsdown, based in the North Carolina town of Mebane (motto: Positively...

Corsicana and Englander Renew Partnership

Corsicana Mattress Co. and Englander will continue their partnership following the recently approved acquisition of Corsicana assets by Blue Torch. Dallas-based Corsicana has renewed its...

Chattam & Wells Boutique Opens in Metro Mattress in Greenwich Market

A first-of-its-kind Chattam & Wells boutique will perch inside Metro Mattress, one of the largest sleep retailers in the country now entering the Connecticut...

Longtime Product Manager Laura Allred Retires from AEC

AEC Narrow Fabrics has announced that Laura Allred, product manager, will retire after seven years of dedicated service to the company. “It is with a...

UncleMuenkel Signs Strategic Partnership with BedTech

Industry veteran Bob Muenkel has selected BedTech as his new company’s preferred national partner for imported adjustable bases and mattresses. Muenkel, who was most recently...

Tokarz Speaks at High Point Market WithIt Event

Laurie Tokarz, president, Restonic Mattress Corp., will participate in a panel discussion titled “Broken Ceilings: Lessons from the Top” as part of the WithIt...

Broad River Retail Celebrates New S.C. Ashley Store

Broad River Retail, a fast-growing independently owned and operated Ashley store licensee, celebrated the opening of its newest store in Greenwood, South Carolina, with...

Labor Day Weekend Sales “Better than Expected”

Piper Sandler’s preliminary retail check also finds improving sales trend in August Retail sales of furniture and mattresses were “better than expected” for the Labor...

More Than 100 Retailers Join BIA’s Harvest Green Program

Bedding Industries of America is growing its Harvest Green mattress line through an omnichannel program for retailers across the country. BIA has carved out...

All-in for Las Vegas

We’re putting all our cards on the table to bring you the best of the summer market How did the Las Vegas Market go? Well,...

Mlily USA Releases Free Social Media Guide for Retailers

Mlily USA is providing retail partners a complimentary social media guide designed to help users of any experience level enhance their social media presence...

Purple Innovation Acquires Intellibed

New Purple luxury mattress line will take retail prices to more than $7,000 Purple Innovation, the maker and marketer of Gel Grid technology mattresses, announced...