Hot values in bedding -- Furniture Today, 7/30/2008 11:09:00 AM AT THE MARKET — A blockbuster bedding market is unfolding here for buyers seeking to put zip into sluggish mattress sales....
Select Comfort posts $6.6 million loss Larry Thomas -- Furniture Today, 7/24/2008 7:08:00 AM MINNEAPOLIS — Select Comfort, the nation’s largest air bed retailer and manufacturer, recorded a net loss of $6.6 million in the second quarter due largely to weak sales at its network of company-owned stores....
Retailers aren't connecting with consumers, studies show David Perry, Executive editor -- Furniture Today, 7/14/2008 Bedding consumers and bedding retailers sometimes look at mattress shopping in very different ways. And since it is the consumers we are serving, their views must drive the shopping experience. Two Furniture/Today research projects illuminate some startling “disconnects” between how consumers and retailers view key bedding issues....
Keep spending on advertising, especially in these tough times David Perry, Bedding editor -- Furniture Today, 7/11/2008 HUNT VALLEY, Md. — Bedding retailers thinking about cutting back on their advertising in tough times should think again. History shows that's a losing strategy. Advertising expert Jon Parks, executive vice president of Horich Parks Lebow Advertising, based here, made that point in a presentation at Furniture/Today's latest Bedding Conference in May....
Dormia begins liquidation sale Clint Engel -- Furniture Today, 7/3/2008 7:36:00 AM BALTIMORE — U.S. Bankruptcy Court has approved the liquidation of the 20-store Dormia sleep chain, a move requested by the retailer after it failed to find a buyer....
Select Comfort shareholder wants CEO out David Perry -- Furniture Today, 6/25/2008 7:04:00 AM MINNEAPOLIS — A shareholder of Select Comfort is urging the airbed producer and retailer to make some major changes, including finding a new CEO....
Mattress Firm opens 500th store -- Furniture Today, 6/23/2008 11:57:00 PM HOUSTON — Mattress Firm opened its 500th store Monday in San Antonio, the 30th store for the bedding specialty retailer in that market....
Spring Air entering India bedding market -- Furniture Today, 6/20/2008 7:02:00 AM TAMPA, Fla. — Spring Air says it is entering the India bedding market through a licensee and expects to have three plants there producing 500 pieces a day, with 30 branded Spring Air stores in the country by 2010....