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Brooklyn Bedding Launches Retail Partnership with Big Sandy Superstore

NEWS RELEASE PHOENIX, Ariz., April 8, 2026—Brooklyn Bedding, manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, and direct-to-consumer distributor of award-winning sleep products, today announced a new retail partnership with Big Sandy Superstore, a leading home goods retailer serving the Midwest. With this partnership,...




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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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Mattress Firm Teams Up with SleepScore Labs

Partnership will create an “integrated sleep improvement program” for consumers Retail chain Mattress Firm and SleepScore Labs are partnering to create “the first integrated sleep...

Brooklyn Bedding Breaks Ground on New HQ, Plant

Arizona facility will triple the manufacturer and retailer’s production capacity Mattress manufacturer and retailer Brooklyn Bedding broke ground on a new manufacturing plant and corporate...

Retailers Reflect on a Year of Covid-19

They’ve strengthened their online presences and e-commerce capabilities, broadened their vendor relationships — and survived Last year, just a few months into the coronavirus pandemic,...

Focus, People! Focus!

Learning to strengthen your attention span will keep you productive and engaged in the task at hand, no matter what you’re doing BY JULIE A....

High-end bedding lines to take spotlight at Las Vegas Market

Show has been moved to April 11-15 because of the Covid-19 pandemic The British are coming. So is an enhanced CBD line. And high-end offerings...

Spring Air’s Northeast Licensee Moving Into New Facility

One-story factory will enhance efficiencies to better serve retail customers U.S. Bedding, Spring Air International’s Northeast licensee, will relocate its factory in Fall River, Massachusetts,...

Piper Sandler Survey: Retail Mattress Sales Up 22.3% in January

Retail mattress sales got off to a booming start in January, a new survey reveals. Piper Sandler’s January Mattress Retailer Survey, which presents insights from...

New BSC Survey: Good Night’s Sleep More Important Than Diet, Exercise

A new national survey of mattress buyers commissioned by the Better Sleep Council reveals that mattress buyers say a good night’s sleep is even...

The Ultimate Bedroom Makeover

Hoping to help customers enjoy a soothing, restful night while perking up add-on sales? Expand your business by encouraging shoppers create a sleep sanctuary With...

Intellibed Expanding Retail Reach

Intellibed, a producer of mattresses and sleep solution technologies based in Salt Lake City, is placing its products in Furnitureland South and Mathis Brothers,...

Mlily Opens New U.S. Warehouse

Mattress and pillow producer Mlily USA has opened a 115,000-square-foot distribution center in Andersonville, Tennessee, replacing a nearby site in Loudon, Tennessee. “Our growth plan...

Bedding Industries of America Opening West Coast Plant

The flagship licensee of mattress licensing group Eclipse International, Bedding Industries of America, will open a new 80,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, showroom and distribution center...

New Lines Out Before April Vegas Market

Some bedding manufacturers are reacting to the industry’s revamped 2021 market calendar by embarking on their own initiatives to introduce new lines. The Winter Las...

King Koil Now at Best Mattress

King Koil has secured placements at Las Vegas-based retailer Best Mattress. The 22-store chain is flooring three of the Avondale, Arizona-based manufacturer’s collections —...

New Book Offers Tips to Brick and Mortar

Mattress industry veterans Mark Kinsley and Mark Quinn have co-authored a book for brick-and-mortar mattress retailers, “Come Back to Bed: Attract More Foot Traffic...

Katapult Names New Head of Product

Katapult, a New York-based provider of e-commerce point-of-sale purchase options for nonprime U.S. consumers, announced that Devjit Basu has joined the company as head of product....

Keep Calm and Carry On

If you have a plan for coping with them, supply chain disruptions don’t have to derail your business or anger your customers  Next-day delivery! Two-day...

MRC’s Paris Gholston Joins WithIt Board

Women’s leadership development network keeps most of 2020 board in place for 2021 Paris Gholston, industry communications specialist for the Mattress Recycling Council, has been...

Therapedic Holding Virtual Winter Market

Retailers can’t wait until a spring show for new products, company says Licensing group Therapedic International is hosting its own virtual winter market — a...

Conn’s Taking HomePlus to Tampa

Retailer plans to open two new stores in the coastal Florida market this winter Conn’s Inc., a retailer of furniture, mattresses, appliances and electronics based...

What Do the Reviews Say?

Survey: Mattress shoppers may be relying less on online reviews than consumers of other big-ticket items Fewer than half of people looking for mattresses use...