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A fifth of mattresses are currently diverted from landfill. The NBF wants that to become 75%. Image: NBF
The National Bed Federation is calling for more recycling but improved transparency after research revealed foam and spring units from the equivalent of up to one in every twenty used mattresses make their way back into the UK bed supply chain.
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Tempur Sealy International, the world's biggest bedding company, has warned profits will be lower than forecast because of cost headwinds and other factors including underperformance in Europe and bad debt.
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Breasley has capitalised on growing demand in the bed-in-a-box segment
Attracting new customers helped revenue continue to climb for East Midlands mattress maker and foam converter Breasley in the year to April 30, 2018. Rising foam costs hampered margins.
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Industry urged to take the TweakSleep challenge.
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Dreams' Oldbury, West Midlands beds factory
Earlier this year and without fanfare, national beds specialist Dreams did something that went against the grain in the boxed beds product segment. For its Hyde & Sleep brand, it pivoted away from the near-ubiquitous 100-night trial.
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Dreams' Buckinghamshire head office
Bed specialist Dreams is expanding. Another four or five stores will open this year, with perhaps ten to follow in 2019. We've been here before. But the circumstances at Dreams are very different now, says CEO Mike Logue.
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The group behind the direct-to-consumer beds brand Adjustamatic built on its return to growth in 2016 with another bump in sales last year.
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Global conglomerate Low & Bonar wants a piece of the mattress components market
One of the world's largest textiles companies is pushing into the mattress manufacturing sector by offering bed makers a new product it says is a viable and green alternative to foam.
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Never-seen-before levels of marketing are being spent across the entire UK mattress sector, says Mike Logue
Marketing spend in the beds sector has reached unprecedented levels according to Dreams CEO Mike Logue, who says there is definitely room for more consumer brands in the mattress category.
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Mattress maker Duflex Foam has become a member of the National Bed Federation (NBF) after passing the trade association's Code of Practice audit.
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North West bedding giant Comfy Quilts recovered from the loss of its biggest customer to return to top line growth in the year to end January 2018.
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The UK arm of European mattress and bedding brand Dormeo maintained top line momentum last year with another big bump in revenue.
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There are nearly 1,000 Matratzen Concord stores across Europe
Matratzen Concord, one of the continent's largest mattress and bedding retailers with stores across central Europe, is closing 176 units by the end of 2018.
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Tempur Sealy International, the world's biggest bedding supplier, says it is working closely with Sears, a major stockist of its mattresses, as the troubled retailer plots a route out of bankruptcy.
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Poland sent record levels of mattresses to Britain in August with full year imports from the country on target to increase by more than a quarter for the third straight year.
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Airsprung is based at Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Sales fell double-digit for Airsprung in 2017–18, a period the Trowbridge upholstery and beds group described as one of its most challenging for some years, with it also battling input cost pressures.
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Bed maker Harrison Spinks is putting the infrastructure in place ahead of launching its maiden TV advertising campaign this winter, relaunching its website to encompass all its brands.
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Specialist bedroom home delivery company Keen & Able is moving to new, larger headquarters after a ten-fold rise in business in the past two years.
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The Eve Sleep advert that caused offence to some
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has dismissed consumer complaints over an Eve Sleep TV advert that featured a woman pretending to be pregnant, saying it was unlikely to cause widespread offence.
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Mattress Firm plans to close up to 700 stores
Steinhoff International Holdings will relinquish almost half the equity in its U.S. bedding unit Mattress Firm to lenders as part of a Chapter 11 restructuring that could see as many as 700 stores close.
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Profits fell at West Yorkshire bed maker Highgrove in 2017 as higher sales were counteracted by rising costs that narrowed margins. Cash generation improved, while debt was paid down.
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Ecommerce mattress retailer Otty Sleep is launching into the Dutch market, its second foray outside the UK having opened a dedicated German office and website earlier this year.
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New UK market entrant Nectar Sleep says it sold three times as much as forecast in its first week of trading here as it looks to replicate rapid growth in its native U.S market.
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Mattress Firm, the largest bedding retailer in the U.S, is considering filing for bankruptcy protection as soon as this week according to a report by Reuters, the news agency.
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Sales jumped for diversified foam giant Carpenter in 2017
Foam giant Carpenter posted lower profits on higher sales in 2017, mirroring the performance of one its largest UK rivals as rising raw material costs chipped away at earnings.
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Duflex Foam, mattress maker and supplier to the likes of IKEA, Eve Sleep, Asda and Argos, posted higher profits as its top line expanded by more than a fifth for the second straight year.
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After closing its French operation, Beter Bed is now exiting the Spanish market
Beter Bed Holding, the bedding retailer trading from nearly 1,200 stores across mainland Europe, has agreed to offload its Spanish retail business El Gigante del Colchón.
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Hästens new Notting Hill store is based on its new retail concept, unveiled this summer in Sweden
High-end bed maker Hästens is ramping up its UK retail presence with three more standalone stores to open before the end of the year. It will also add a new studio with a retail partner in Dublin.
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UK sales fell for Vispring, but it enjoyed growth elsewhere
UK sales fell double-digit at high-end Devon bed maker Vispring last year. Factory efficiencies and growth outside Britain meant profits, by most measures, still climbed.
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Luxury beds retailer And So To Bed recorded a bigger loss in 2017 as muted demand and fierce competition meant it was forced to compete on price, placing pressure on margins.
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National beds specialist Dreams has become a member of trade association BFM, the association for British Furniture Manufacturers.
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Sleepeezee's owner Adova has outlined ambitious UK plans
The newly-appointed UK boss at Sleepeezee's French owner Adova has outlined plans to put its 'under-utilised' Royal Warrant at the heart of a strategy will see it aim to double revenue within four years.
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Adova, the French parent to Kent bed maker Sleepeezee, will launch Beautyrest by Simmons in Britain as part of a plan to 'disrupt the disrupters.'
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Harrison Spinks hopes to drive consumers towards stockists' stores
Leeds bed maker Harrison Spinks will invest £2 million on an integrated marketing campaign that will see the business advertise on national television for the first time.
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Eve Sleep losses widened in the six months to June 30, 2018
Losses widened at mattress brand Eve Sleep in the six months to end June, the period that led to the departure of its founding CEO and its decision to pare back its international ambitions.
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Dreams was named Large Bed Retailer of the Year
National beds specialist Dreams was last night named Large Bed Retailer of the Year at the National Bed Federation's Bed Show Gala Dinner with Arighi Bianchi, Argos and Otty winning in other retail categories.
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Harrison Spinks was named top large bed maker at the NBF Gala Dinner in Telford last night, with South Coast producer Millbrook claiming the prize for smaller concerns.
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First UK accounts for U.S direct-to-consumer mattress business.
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Mattress imports reached record high in July
July saw record mattress imports as higher shipments and truckloads arriving from China and Poland pushed the category 10 percent higher-on-year.
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L&P is best known here for supply springs to the mattress market
Pocket spring maker Leggett & Platt, one of the key suppliers to Britain's bed industry, absorbed higher raw material costs as profits fell last year despite a double-digit sales bump.
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Dura Beds' Batley factory
Sales and profits fell last year but West Yorkshire bed maker Dura Beds spent heavily again on production capacity and capability as it eyes expansion.
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Sweet Dreams, the Lancashire bed maker celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, has appointed Darrell Tough as its new sales agent for Scotland.
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DTC mattress brand Simba expanded in 2016–17
Mattress brand Simba Sleep invested nearly £2 for every £1 it generated in sales last year in a sign of its intent to make an impression on British and international bed markets.
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Direct-to-consumer mattress business Simba Sleep has begun financing its receivables in selected European markets after agreeing a new secured line of credit late last month.
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Yorkshire beds group Harrison Spinks has launched a dedicated Contract division headed up by one of the sector’s most experienced executives.
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Paris, FRA. — Simmons Bedding Group owner Cauval Industries has hired the former head of IKEA France Jean-Louis Baillot as chief operating officer.
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