• Sealy Canada launches Posturepedic Proback

  Michael Knell, February 6, 2012
  TORONTO - Sealy Canada launched its first-ever "developed in Canada" line of mattresses at the Canadian Home Furnishings Market here this month.  More

• ISPA 2012 forecast: Modest but welcome gains

  David Perry, January 27, 2012
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The International Sleep Products Assn. is predicting modest unit and dollar gains this year as the bedding industry continues to recover from a slump a few years ago. And the group's top full-time executive says ISPA will be working hard to keep the industry moving forward.  More

• America's Mattress Hawaii adds store

  Furniture Today Staff, January 22, 2012
  HONOLULU - Specialty sleep shop America's Mattress Hawaii has opened a 4,000- square-foot store in the suburb of Aiea in the Pearl Kai Shopping Center on Kamehameha Highway. The company has seven other locations throughout Oahu, Maui and the Big Island.  More

• Mattress retailer pays back wages

  Larry Thomas, January 21, 2012
  BATON ROUGE, La. - Bedding retailer Mattress Direct has agreed to pay more than $40,000 in back wages to 96 current and former sales associates following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.  More

• Mattress Firm raises estimates

  Furniture Today Staff, January 21, 2012
  HOUSTON - Bedding retailer Mattress Firm last week raised its sales and comparable-store sales estimates for the fiscal year that ends Jan. 31.  More

• Sleep Train plans 20 or more stores in Portland, Ore., area

  Furniture Today Staff, January 19, 2012
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Top 100 company Sleep Train is ramping up its expansion into this market, having opened five area stores with plans for 15 to 18 more over the next one to two years, according to a report by the Sacramento Business Journal.  More

• Marcus family acquires Verlo Mattress

  Furniture Today Staff, January 18, 2012
  MILWAUKEE - Marcus Investments, a firm formed by the Marcus family here, announced last week that it has acquired Verlo Mattress Factory Stores, the franchisor that supports more than 40 Verlo stores around the country.  More

• Mattress sales jump 14.4% in dollars in Nov.

  Furniture Today Staff, January 10, 2012
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The dollar volume of U.S. mattress shipments jumped a hefty 14.4% in November, while bedding units posted a more modest 2.7% gain, the International Sleep Products Assn. reported.  More

• Is a battle of two bedding behemoths on the horizon?

  Larry Thomas, January 10, 2012
  Don't look now, but the two Goliaths of the retail bedding business - Sleepy's and Mattress Firm - are quietly positioning themselves to do hand-to-hand combat for the first time.  More

• Mattress World closing seven stores in Portland, Ore., area

  Clint Engel, January 9, 2012
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Mattress World is closing all seven of its company-owned area stores after it was hit with a Washington state warrant for about $1.7 million in delinquent sales taxes, according to a story in the Vancouver, Wash., Columbian.  More

• Survey says: Many stores carry 3 or 4 bedding lines

  David Perry, December 8, 2011
  HIGH POINT - The magic number for mattress retailing is three.  More

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