Kayfoam Woolfson, an Ireland-based foam producer and bed manufacturer, has been acquired by Leggett & Platt from FL Partners, a Dublin-based private equity group that acquired Kayfoam Woolfson back in 2007. Read More
Mattresses can be combustible, which is why flammability standards have been introduced to suppress fires started by sparks—which caused an estimated 95 deaths annually from 2002-2005. Read More
There are all sorts of studies about how well properly executed employee incentive programs work, and now Pleasant Mattress is part of a growing number of businesses that are offering incentives to employees to get vaccinated. Read More
Kryo, Inc., the parent company of sleep technology brand ChiliSleep, is teaming up with the Cincinnati Reds and the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball teams for a sports science collaboration. Read More
Partnering with SleepScore Labs, Mattress Firm found that Americans collectively lost 74 billion hours in sleep last year. In addition,... Read More
Englander is launching its Supreme collection of 14 new mattresses at the upcoming summer Las Vegas Market. Read More
Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows that total health expenditures in the U.S. have been on the rise, with health spending reaching $3.8 trillion in 2019. Read More
Culp Inc. announced its Q4 financial results and the company posted a productive quarter. Net sales were $76.9 million—up 10.5 percent over the prior-year period, with mattress fabric sales up 12.2 percent compared with the second quarter of last year. Read More
Casper is opening its first branded store-in-a-store in Bed Bath & Beyond’s newly redesigned flagship New York City store later this month, marking the first move in the two retail giant’s new partnership. Read More
Rewind to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and you might remember hearing that organizers distributed 450,000 condoms and 175,000 sachets of lube. They first started passing out jimmies at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul and ever since then there’s been news coverage about athletes shaking the sheets. And this year there was a big piece of fake news floating around about how the cardboard beds the Olympic athletes will sleep on were designed to prevent bonking. Read More
As e-commerce sales have grown more important than ever since the pandemic hit, Nationwide Marketing Group is launching a new endless aisle feature for members with e-commerce-enabled websites that allows retailers to quickly and easily add products to their online catalogs. Read More
For 13 years, the annual Ante4Autism event has raised money to help the families and individuals impacted by Autism—as 1 in 59 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Read More