Exclusive research -- Year of ups and downs in bedding By David Perry -- Furniture Today, 7/11/2008 HIGH POINT — It was a year of contrasts for major bedding producers. Four Top 15 producers managed to generate double-digit sales gains, while three had double-digit sales declines. Overall, slightly more than half of the Top 15 saw their sales slip last year, according to Furniture/Today's latest bedding market share report....
Get exclusive research reports from Furniture|Today -- Furniture Today, 6/4/2008 7:46:00 AM Furniture|Today's online Research Store features reports, surveys and whitepapers compiled exclusively for the furniture and home furnishings industries. We have recently added four new reports that you might be interested in--Top 100 Furniture Stores, Top 25 Furniture Sources for U.S. Market, Retail Bedding Spotlight and Retail Giants of Bedding....
Bedding Yearbook -- 2007 -- Furniture Today, 3/27/2008 8:54:00 AM This special 22-page report takes a comprehensive look at bedding suppliers, producers, retailers and consumers. In this fifth edition of our annual bedding review, you will get a handy overview of several of the key issues shaping our industry. The concept here is to put critical bedding information in a freestanding issue that will be a handy reference source throughout the year....
Top 15 Bedding Producers -- Sealy, Simmons, Serta lead pack By David Perry -- Furniture Today, 7/23/2007 HIGH POINT -- Bedding's Elite Three — Sealy, Simmons and Serta — remain the same in Furniture/Today's latest bedding market share rankings, but a growing specialty sleep player has cracked the Top Five....
Vegas seminar: What consumers, retailers want David Perry -- Furniture Today, 7/23/2007 9:24:00 AM Here’s a quick quiz to test your bedding knowledge. True or false? Last year, only 8% of consumers who purchased a bed bought two or more beds. ...
10 bedding specialists deliver growth sermon David Perry -- Furniture Today, 6/26/2007 9:19:00 AM We can’t let another week go by without saluting some exceptional bedding retailers who blew the competition away last year. Yes, we are talking about the 10 bedding specialty stores that loomed large on our latest list of the Top 100 U.S. Furniture Stores....
Simmons, Tempur, Select set fast ’06 growth pace David Perry -- Furniture Today, 6/20/2007 9:17:00 AM Our latest bedding producer rankings, which you’ll find in our latest print issue and soon in our online store, illustrate yet again the rapidly changing nature of our industry. There are some familiar shining stars but, overall, many of the industry’s best-known players experienced a tough year in 2006....
Exclusive Research: Bedding specialty stores stars of Top 100 -- Furniture Today, 6/1/2007 9:03:00 AM HIGH POINT — The 10 bedding specialty stores were the shining stars of this year’s Top 100 with a combined sales gain and store growth that markedly outpaced every other subcategory of this year’s list....