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High Point Market Trends for Fall 2025
The season of change lived up to its name at the fall High Point Market. The High Point, North Carolina-based show got off to a fast start — so fast that many visitors who arrived on the official opening day, Saturday, Oct. 25, felt they were late to the party. Several exhibitors said they began greeting customers and taking appointments as early as Tuesday, Oct.
Leading the Way: Innerspring's Best Innovations for Success
In an era of sluggish mattress sales, shifting consumer expectations and intensifying global competition, coil and innerspring manufacturers are refining their strategies to stay competitive, generate greater demand and redefine what they bring to the bedding industry.
A Challenging Las Vegas Market " BedTimes Magazine
The lessons of the summer Las Vegas Market? In a challenging Las Vegas market, play what you’re dealt, strengthen your hand and let the cards fall where they may. Las Vegas is always a gamble — at least inside the casinos — but one sure bet at the summer Las Vegas Market is slower traffic. The silver lining? Abundant opportunities for building relationships.
Exciting King Koil & Property Brothers Partnership " BedTimes Magazine
BedTimes sits down with King Koil CEO David Binke to discuss its collaboration with Scott Brothers Global, a showroom glow-up and the debut of its new Intimate Float collection. This exciting King Koil & Property collaboration is one you won’t want to miss. Watch the full version today. Right. So, we decided to come up with good, strong six beds to start. We collaborated with them. They trusted our judgment, but we gave them a couple of options, because they’re very visual and they like it.
Discover the Leading Innovations in Bedding Sewing Technology
Discover the leading innovations in today’s sewing machinery industry as manufacturers create smarter, more adaptable and sustainable machinery to meet the increasing complexity and customization of bedding products. As the bedding industry evolves, sewing machinery manufacturers find themselves facing cross-purposes.
Interzum 2025: The Best Breakthroughs in Bedding Technology
Components and machinery suppliers brought their best and brightest ideas for adapting to a changing world, including the latest Interzum Bedding Innovations. In its second post-pandemic exhibition, approximately 60,000 trade visitors from 157 countries flocked to the Koelnmesse Exhibit Complex for Interzum Cologne 2025, May 20-23, in Cologne, Germany.
High Point Market Spring 2025: Tariffs, Turnout & Top Bedding Debuts
Early turnout, talk of tariffs and the return of familiar faces marked the April High Point show. No one was quite sure what to expect going into the High Point Market, held April 26-30. There was an air of uncertainty and anxiety due to what Kyle Robertson, chief operating officer of Knoxville, Tennessee-based Mlily USA, elegantly referred to as “geopolitical forces at play.” Many had hoped that 2025 would mark the start of a bedding sector turnaround, but economic indicators didn’t reflect that.
Custom Comfort, Local Roots: Inside Verlo Mattress's Winning Strategy
For more than 65 years, Verlo Mattress has made a name for itself, one mattress at a time. How do you compete with the majors?” That’s a windmill that bedding manufacturers have tilted at for decades. But Milwaukee-based Verlo Mattress has chosen a different course. Since 1958, the bedding producer and retailer has built a loyal following through its own chain of successful direct-to-consumer factory stores on its own terms — one town, one store, one customer, one mattress at a time.
Winter Las Vegas Market 2024: Tech Mattresses, Split-Heads, & Visual Merchandising Trends
The winter show featured tech enhancements, split-head queen sizes and solid visual merchandising. There are no sure things in Vegas — and that sentiment was especially true at the opening of the winter market. An element of uncertainty seemed to be everywhere: Bedding manufacturers and retailers were weary after enduring years of the post-pandemic industry slowdown. Anxious consumers worried about inflation were still nervous about loosening their purse strings.
Ties That Bind: How Fabric, Fiber & Tape Innovation Shapes the Bedding Industry
Today’s border fabric, fiber, nonwoven and tape producers are helping bring beds together. The phrase “Blest be the ties that bind” originated from the title of a hymn written in 1782 by English minister John Fawcett and featured in the classic Thornton Wilder play “Our Town.” The hymn and the familiar phrase it spawned symbolize the importance of forming the connections that build a tight-knit community.
Diamond's "Moneyball" Tool & Mlily Innovations at Las Vegas Market - Day 2 Wrap Up
Day 2 at Las Vegas Market! Join BedTimes’ Kathryn Greene and Burt Dellinger as they share their highlights from the show floor. Discover new technologies, innovative retail solutions, and exciting product launches. It’s that time, 2025. Here we go again. Burt Dellinger Hey, welcome to day two of Las Vegas Market. I’d like to thank Kingsdown for being our sponsor of our daily wrap up videos. So, let’s get into what we saw today. It was good. Kathryn, let me tell you what I saw today.
Luxury Trends & New Launches at the Winter Las Vegas Market - Day 1 Wrap
Day 1 at Las Vegas Market! Join Sleep Savvy’s Kathryn Greene and BedTimes’ Burt Dellinger as they share their highlights from the show floor. Discover new collections from Shifman, Mlily, and more. Kathryn Greene We’re here in the Kingsdown showroom. Thank you so much to Kingsdown for sponsoring our wrap up video. So it is the end of day one of Las Vegas market. So much to see today. I stopped by the Shifman showroom. And you know, luxury has been performing well compared to a lot of other categories.
High Point Market 2024: A Mixed Bag of Trends and Challenges
New introductions, market premieres and elevated sleep experiences marked the fall show. While the bedding scene at High Point Market has been fairly sleepy over the past few years, 2024 saw an uptick in mattress manufacturers opening or sharing showrooms. Diamond Mattress returned for its second market, while Customatic Technologies, South Bay International, Literie Laurier and Sleep on Green all made their High Point debuts at the market Oct. 26-30.
Uncovering The Best Sustainability Strategies: 2024 Highlights
ISPA’s third Sustainability Conference explores practical solutions to evolving issues in mattress circularity. Environmental impact is always top of mind at the ISPA Sustainability Conference, but this year, the environment proved impossible to ignore. The 2024 International Sleep Products Association Sustainability Conference took place in the shadow of Hurricane Helene, the Category 4 Atlantic hurricane that made landfall on Sept.
Hospitality Mattress Market Trends: Why Hotels Are Turning to Bedding Manufacturers
The reasons for pursuing hotel contracts are numerous — and so are the benefits. Where does the bedding industry turn when retail sales aren’t racking up the numbers they need to see? Today, a growing number of bedding manufacturers are looking to the hospitality sector as the key to opening up lucrative new revenue streams. Hospitality is a hot topic these days for a number of reasons. For one, the time is ripe for hotels to invest in new mattresses.
Bedding Market Quarterly Reports Sales Down in Second Quarter
Total Market wholesale dollars and units were down 2.5% and 12.1% respectively compared to 2023. The Total Market YTD data shows wholesale dollars down 3.0% compared to 2023 and units down 7.9%, according to the International Sleep Products Association’s Bedding Market Quarterly.
Best Trends Amidst The Heat: Las Vegas Market
Amid the unpredictable climate of the sleep products industry, the summer Las Vegas Market was a mixed bag. In the weeks leading up to market, Las Vegas experienced record-breaking temperatures, reaching a scorching 120 degrees. While the interiors of the buildings at World Market Center were noticeably cool, it wasn’t just due to the air conditioning — a welcome reprieve — but a marked decrease in foot traffic over the winter 2024 and summer 2023 markets. Some of that is to be expected.
Stress Study Points to Opportunity for Sleep Industry
How many sleepless nights have you spent worrying about the next day’s work? How often do you look at the clock the night before a trip, afraid to oversleep and miss your flight? Do you spend more nights counting bills than sheep? If any of these scenarios sound familiar, rub the sleep out of your eyes and take a closer look at the latest findings from the Better Sleep Council (BSC), which leads consumer research and education for the International Sleep Products Association.
Sleep & Stress: New Research Reveals the Link to Better Rest
The Better Sleep Council examines the often-troubled relationship between sleep and stress. How many sleepless Sunday nights have you spent worrying about the next day’s work? How often do you look at the clock the night before a trip, afraid to oversleep and miss your early flight? Do you spend more nights counting bills than sheep?
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