BEDGEAR Champions Women’s Health and Personalized Sleep at Women’s Wellness Day...
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — BEDGEAR®, the leader in personalized sleep solutions engineered for airflow and designed to optimize recovery, partnered with Nebraska Furniture Mart to present Women’s...
Mancini’s Sleepworld Acquires Christian’s Mattress Xpress
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CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, August 26, 2026: Mancini’s Sleepworld has acquired Christian’s Mattress Xpress and assumed ownership of all nine of the retailer’s locations throughout...
Kingsdown Elevates bedMATCH System
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MEBANE, North Caroline – Kingsdown is enhancing its proprietary bedMATCH™ system to make it even more impactful in the mattress sales process in...
Symphony Sleep Collaborates With Retail Veteran to Support Retailer Success
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ST. PETERS, Mo. (August 24, 2026) -- Symphony Sleep® has entered a strategic collaboration with longtime furniture retail executive Andrew Covington, bringing the...
Parcel Fees Put Bulky Bedding in Focus
Carrier fees tied to package size, weight, and handling are a useful prompt for bedding companies to review how boxed and direct-shipped products move through parcel networks.
MLILY Focuses on Employees and Business Continuity Following Plant Fire
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (August 18, 2026) – Following the fire that began Sunday at its Winnsboro, South Carolina manufacturing facility, MLILY has activated its crisis response and business continuity...
SABA North America CEO to Open ISPA Sustainability Conference With Focus...
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ST. CLAIR, Mich. (Aug. 17, 2026) — Jim Turner, CEO of SABA North America and a longtime leader in adhesive innovation for the mattress industry, will open the...
HPMA and Loloi Rugs Team Up for Inaugural Keynote Competition
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HIGH POINT, N.C. —August 17, 2026 — The High Point Market Authority (HPMA) announces its second Keynote Series event for the upcoming High Point...
UK Heatwaves Drive Surge in Wool Bedding Sales as Consumers Wake...
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SOARING temperatures have driven a sharp rise in sales for the UK’s leading natural bedding retailer Woolroom, which reported a 53% YoY growth...
HPMA Announces Andy Grammer will Perform Sunday at Fall Market
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HIGH POINT, N.C., August 10, 2026 — The High Point Market Authority (HPMA) announces multi-platinum artist Andy Grammer will be the featured performer at...
Century-Old Baker’s Main Street Furniture Going Out of Business
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GARLAND, Texas. (August 7, 2026) — After 103 years the iconic Baker’s Main Street Furniture will close permanently. Owner David Baker will retire...
Live Comfortably Commences US Mattress Pad And Protector Manufacturing
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BOCA RATON – FL (August 5, 2026). Live Comfortably, North America’s largest utility bedding manufacturer, has announced the initiation of mattress pad and...
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At a Glance
Company MidWest Nonwovens
Headquarters Sauget, Illinois
Founded 2008 by Bryan Speight and Chris Look
Ownership Privately held
Employees About 100
Production locations Sauget and Indianapolis
Specialty Filler for...
Latex Expands Its Reach
Natural latex—prized for its durability, elasticity, pressure relief, and breathability—has long occupied a premium niche within the mattress industry. But now, something bigger is...
‘The Wild West’
New York state legislators worked late into the night at the end of the 2026 legislative session in early June, scrambling to handle lingering...
Nightcap Q&A With Taylor Jones
As the owner of Wishbone Advisory, a boutique e-commerce and marketing consultancy, Taylor Jones spends his days delivering business results while pushing the boundaries...
Tech Guy
After college, a technology career wasn’t on Brian Fraser’s bingo card. The public policy major spent the first decade of his work life in...
Meet Your ISPA Board
At the end of December 2025, New York state agreed to postpone enforcing the restriction of certain fire-retardant materials in mattresses until mid-July—a win...
Texas Firm Wins Patent to Turn Mattress Foam Into Wallets and...
Imagine it: Recycled mattress foam transformed into in-demand products including synthetic leather products, shoe soles, or phone cases.
It’s become a reality, as the U.S....
Mapping the Future
As sustainability expectations continue to evolve, industries are facing growing pressure from regulators, consumers, retailers, and other stakeholders to better understand and address the...
Safety Doesn’t Stand Still
Some of the most important work the International Sleep Products Association does for this industry happens quietly, but its impact is significant. The Sleep...
HPMA Partners with NKBA for Fall Market Keynote Event
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HIGH POINT, N.C. — August 3, 2026 — The High Point Market Authority (HPMA) announces its opening day Keynote Series event for the upcoming High...
A Few Reflections From Summer Market (With More to Come)
From relentless heat to products that came alive in action, BedTimes shares four reflections from Summer Las Vegas Market.
WithIt Offers Main Stage Streaming Ticket for “Forging Strong Leaders” Conference
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HIGH POINT, NC (July 29, 2026) – WithIt has announced that it will again offer a virtual streaming ticket option for its annual professional...
Therapedic Worldwide, Sleep International Appoint Industry Veteran to Dual-Capacity Executive Leadership...
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PRINCETON, N.J. (July 23, 2026) – Therapedic Worldwide and its largest licensee Sleep International have appointed John Rachid to the newly created role of chief commercial officer to accelerate the strategic growth of both...
Kingsdown Will Unveil Upgraded Natural Fusion Models At Las Vegas Market
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MEBANE, North Carolina – Luxury bedding manufacturer, Kingsdown, Inc., is unveiling performance and aesthetic enhancements to its best-selling Natural Fusion collection at the...
What Back-to-Campus Shoppers Need From Bedding Products
Dorm rooms and first apartments put bedding products into small, high-use spaces where fit, care, comfort, and value all have to be easy to understand.
King Koil Refreshes Best-Selling Xtended Life and PureBliss Collections for Summer...
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AVONDALE, Arizona — Leading mattress manufacturer King Koil is refreshing its top-performing luxury mattress collections, Xtended Life and PureBliss, at the Summer Las Vegas Market. Featuring enhanced cooling technologies and new comfort features and updated aesthetics,...
Spring Air Curates Las Vegas Showroom Floor With Proven Best Sellers...
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WOBURN, Massachusetts — Spring Air International, a Top 20 U.S. bedding manufacturer and widely known consumer brand, is coming to Summer Las Vegas Market with a...
Wirecutter Highlights Precision Textiles’ Expertise on Mattress Fire Barriers
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Fairfield, NJ, July 20, 2026—Precision Textiles’ expertise in mattress fire-barrier technologies and federal flammability standards was recently featured in a Wirecutter article examining the evolution of...































