Bedding Retailers

• Mattress Retailing 101: Bedding plays major role in Furniture Mart’s success

  David Perry, August 15, 2008
  ROXBORO, N.C. — Larry Cole has found success with bedding at his full-line furniture store here with a simple strategy: Promote bedding relentlessly.  More

• Sleep Country Canada sales up 9.4%

  Michael J. Knell, August 15, 2008
  TORONTO — Sales and earnings for Sleep Country Canada Income Fund continued on their steady growth in the second quarter, driven by strong same store sales growth at its two Canadian banners and despite the weak market conditions endured by its U.S. operations.  More

• ISPA’s Mattress Retailer Council has first meeting

  By Furniture Today Staff, August 15, 2008
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Two well-known bedding retailers have been elected to top positions on the new Mattress Retailer Council established by the International Sleep Products Assn.  More

• Hot values in bedding

  By Furniture Today Staff, July 30, 2008
  AT THE MARKET A blockbuster bedding market is unfolding here for buyers seeking to put zip into sluggish mattress sales.  More

• Select Comfort posts $6.6 million loss

  Larry Thomas, July 24, 2008
  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.  More

• Retailers aren't connecting with consumers, studies show

  David Perry, Executive editor, July 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.  More

• Keep spending on advertising, especially in these tough times

  David Perry, Bedding editor, July 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.  More

• Dormia begins liquidation sale

  Clint Engel, July 3, 2008
  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.  More

• Select Comfort shareholder wants CEO out

  David Perry, June 25, 2008
  MINNEAPOLIS — A shareholder of Select Comfort is urging the airbed producer and retailer to make some major changes, including finding a new CEO.  More

• Mattress Firm opens 500th store

  By Furniture Today Staff, June 24, 2008
  HOUSTON — Mattress Firm opened its 500th store Monday in San Antonio, the 30th store for the bedding specialty retailer in that market.  More

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