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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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DreamFit Will Introduce New Mattress Protector Program for American Leather at Fall High Point Market 

NEWS RELEASE | 2024 FALL HIGH POINT MARKET CULLMAN, Alabama – Following the successful debut of its custom-made sheet program for American Leather sleeper sofas...

Growth Fuels Mlily USA’s Sales Team Expansion

Knoxville, Tennessee-based Mlily has made two additions to its sales team to elevate the brand and its service levels for retailer partners nationwide. Industry...

3 Reasons for September’s Weak Sales According To Piper Sandler 

Investment bank and financial services firm Piper Sandler recently released its September Mattress Retailer Survey. Based on information from 12 to 15 retailers representing...

FullyRamped Raises $2.3M to Train Sales Reps Faster With AI

The Sept/Oct issue of Sleep Savvy covered how AI is revolutionizing retail, from creating immersive shopping experiences for customers to ushering in a new...

WithIt Announces Panel For “When the Going Gets Tough, She Gets Going” Fall Education Breakfast 

NEWS RELEASE High Point, N.C. – WithIt (Women In The Home Furnishings Industry Today) announced its expert panel for its Fall Education Breakfast presented by...

Reigniting the Middle: How Retail Can Reclaim Mid-Range Customers

After years of a high-low market split, midrange consumers are due more attention. The demise of the department store — a favored destination of middle-class...

AI Retail Revolution: Transforming the Shopping Experience

How AI is revolutionizing retail. In a recent article for Forbes, Paul Lin, tech entrepreneur and CEO of Returned.com, shared ways artificial intelligence can revolutionize...

Foundation Sleep Products Begins Operations, Supports Troubled Youth

Owner Michael Flam has announced the opening of Foundation Sleep Products based in Greenville, Florida. According to a news release, the company has partnered...

Kingsdown Revamps Insignia Hybrid Collection

Mebane, North Carolina-based luxury bedding manufacturer Kingsdown Inc., has revamped its luxury hybrid Insignia collection featuring a blend of cooling gel and memory foam...

Kingsdown Donates 100,000 Units of Insulin to Hurricane Helene Victims 

To help provide relief caused by Hurricane Helene, Mebane, North Carolina-based luxury mattress manufacturer Kingsdown Inc. purchased more than 100,000 units of insulin for...

Dow and GoodBed Establish Scientific Mattress Testing Program

Dow, one of the world’s leading materials science companies, announced the creation of a mattress testing program in partnership with GoodBed, a mattress information...

Sleep Number Introduces ClimateCool Smart Bed 

Specialty bedding manufacturer and retailer Sleep Number Corp. has launched its new ClimateCool smart bed, which actively cools and adjusts to both sleepers, ideal...

Bedding Market Quarterly Reports Sales Down in Second Quarter

The Bedding Market Quarterly reported that total market wholesale dollars and units dropped 2.5% and 12.1%, respectively, compared with 2023. The Total Market YTD...

Spring Air Expands Customer Service Resources

Bedding manufacturer and licensing group Spring Air International is expanding its national customer service capabilities to reflect an increase in private-label direct-ship business.  According to...

Serta Simmons Bedding Introduces All-New Tuft & Needle Mattress Collection 

Serta Simmons Bedding, a leading global sleep company based in Doraville, Georgia, has introduced the all-new Tuft & Needle mattress collection that includes the...

Gold Bond Premium Mattresses in White Ticking Draw Retail Consumer Interest  

Gold Bond, an independent mattress manufacturer based in Hartford, Connecticut, says that dealers report premium mattresses with higher-end white ticking are attracting more consumer...

Rize Home Expands Sales Leadership Team

Cleveland, Ohio-based sleep solutions and home furnishings manufacturer Rize Home has announced a strategic realignment of its sales territories. As part of this initiative,...

Kingsdown Debuts Consumer-First Website

Mebane, North Carolina-based luxury mattress manufacturer Kingsdown refreshed its website, kingsdown.com with several new features to help consumers. According to the company, it took...

Abu Dhabi’s ADNOC to Buy Covestro

Covestro AG, a German manufacturer of polymer materials and components with world headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany, and U.S. headquarters in Pittsburgh, has signed an...

Avocado Green Mattress Earns EWG Verified Mark 

Avocado Green Mattress, a Los Angeles-based organic mattress producer, announced that its entire line of adult, kids’, and crib mattresses has earned the EWG...

Paramount Sleep Grows Sales and Marketing Team 

Norfolk, Virginia-based Paramount Sleep Co. has promoted two associates to new positions in sales and marketing and added an intern to support growth.  According to...