Wooden beds and mattress vertical Get Laid Beds continued to rack up class-leading profits through 2022/23 as high export demand mitigated weaker figures from the U.K.

The carve-up of the adjustable furniture retail group that until earlier this year traded as Middletons and Oak Tree Mobility has led to improved profitability and a better-equipped platform for growth, its owner has said.

Optimism among furniture makers about the trading environment has faded according to an updated poll of its members by the trade association British Furniture Manufacturers (BFM).

Beds market leader Dreams has launched a programme of beds and bedroom furniture in partnership with X Rocker, the global gaming furniture brand.

Revenue returned closer to pre-pandemic levels for Suffolk bed maker Mansion House Bedding Group through 2022/23 thanks to increased demand from the contract sector. Profits declined on higher costs and investment.

A small West Yorkshire manufacturer of modular sofas and upholstered bed frames has been placed into liquidation within eight months of an ownership change.

Higher costs weakened margins at specialist furniture and bedding retailer Futon Company in the past year, despite another all-time high sales effort.

Home and garden retail giant IKEA has launched a mattress recycling scheme in partnership with The Furniture Recycling Group.

The National Bed Federation (NBF) has issued an urgent call to bed manufacturers and retailers to watch out for and report fraudulent emails purporting to be from the trade association.

Alteri Investors has detailed the total cash amount it has invested, loaned or contributed so far into the vertically-integrated Bensons for Beds operation, the U.K.'s second largest retailer in the beds category.

Vertically-integrated bed manufacturer Naturalmat has opened its first store in the North of England after taking a former Laura Ashley home furnishings and fashion unit.

Emerging beds retailer The Sleep Haven has followed its late-September launch in Yorkshire with the opening of a second unit, this time on the Riverside Retail Park at Warrington.

Foam and sprung mattress imports into the U.K. were higher for the third consecutive month on a year-on-year basis in September.

Four-store South East England bed specialist Hamseys Sleep Centres recorded higher year-on-year profits, though cash declined as it paid down outstanding liabilities.

Dorlux, the 104-year-old bed brand that has been largely absent from the U.K. market for most of the past decade, is set to return.

Devon bed maker Vispring is following the launch of its flagship central London showroom with the addition of a second, further west.

U.K. furniture manufacturers recorded an eighth straight year-on-year decline in turnover at the factory gate in September according to new official data out Friday morning.

Global Components (UK), the West Yorkshire based bed, mattress and upholstered furniture components supplier, booked lower profits last year on rising costs and falling revenue.

Airsprung Group has restructured its management team with new group roles for the managing directors of its Airsprung Beds and Gainsborough Beds business units.

Beds market leader Dreams and housing and homelessness charity Shelter have launched a children's book aimed at breaking the stigma of families who are homeless in temporary accommodation.

National bed specialist Bensons for Beds has said it achieved like-for-like sales growth in all four quarters of its 2022/23 financial year, and returned to profit.

YouTube review adverts extolling the virtues of Emma mattresses from a website controlled by an Emma Sleep subsidiary have fallen foul of marketing guidelines, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.

A North West based manufacturer of contract quality beds and mattresses for the hotel, leisure, care and education industries has been placed into liquidation, leaving seven-figure debts.

Former England footballer David Beckham has signed to become a brand ambassador for premium bedding brand Tempur Sealy in its Asia-Pacific markets.

The mobility group behind direct-to-consumer adjustable furniture brand Willowbrook booked double-digit profits at the EBITDA line in the first full year since a near £40 million venture capital-backed buyout.

U.K. beds market leader Dreams was among the standout performers for Tempur Sealy International in the third quarter of 2023 with its CEO calling out the retailer's leadership team for its "outstanding execution."

Castle Donington furniture wholesaler Birlea has revealed its new-look logotype and corporate identity amid an expanded product roster and new senior managerial appointment.

Leggett & Platt, the diversified industrial conglomerate best known here for supplying mattress components, said worldwide bedding sales continued to trend down in the third quarter as demand remained weak.

Fifth generation bed manufacturer Harrison Spinks has joined the Wild Ingleborough programme, a multi-partner, landscape-scale conservation project working with the local community to bring about nature’s recovery in parts of North Yorkshire and within the Yorkshire Dales.

West Yorkshire mattress maker Dura Beds booked lower profits last year as rising sales and wider gross margin were negated by higher costs elsewhere in the business.

Four major Chinese furniture manufacturers saw their share prices fall to a year-long low on Monday as a sell-off among the country's largest companies spread across the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

CPS, the multi-faceted print specialist that majors in providing services to beds and furniture industry clients, says it is on a path to net zero after making sustainability core to its business processes and products.

Beds retail market leader Dreams has launched a new £4 million brand campaign featuring Gillian Anderson, the Hollywood actor who starred in the X-Files and movies including The Last King of Scotland.

Selling an underutilised area of its vast Trowbridge factory site along with other plant and equipment generated £10.9 million in cash for the Airsprung beds and upholstery group through 2022/23, masking a decline in underlying profits.

Digital-led multichannel retailer MattressNextDay will host the first U.K. shop-in-shop concept from Emma Sleep when it launches its new flagship store in Kent later this autumn.

The U.K. comfort foam operations of Recticel were more profitable despite lower sales ahead of the business unit being carved out and sold to a private investment company earlier this year.

The value of Chinese mattresses arriving into the U.K. doubled in August in a rise out of step with the year-to-date trend.

Simba Sleep has returned to profit at the EBITDA line this year with CEO and co-founder Steve Reid saying the direct-to-consumer and wholesale bed brand is continuing to put the building blocks in place for international expansion.

Kent bed maker Sleepeezee says it is well placed ahead of the final weeks of 2023 as it looks to maintain top and bottom momentum achieved through last year that helped it outperform its peers.

Turnover at the furniture factory gate fell at its sharpest rate in two and a half years in August, according to new official data released Thursday morning.



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