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Sleep Accessories in Furniture Stores . The study, just completed, presents the views of almost three dozen furniture retailers around the country, the vast majority of whom have annual sales of more than $2 million. And some big players are on the list of respondents, too; 21% of the furniture respondents had sales last year of $20 million or more.

Bedding Yearbook - 2011 . Our annual Bedding Yearbook provides a compilation of key mattress reports we publish each year. In addition we include key players on the mattress landscape. On the producer side, we list the Top 15 Bedding Producers, a closely watched list that tells retailers which manufacturers are moving up and which ones are moving down. On the retail side of the business, we list the Top 25 Bedding Retailers, a mix of bedding specialists, furniture stores, department stores, warehouse clubs and others.

Furniture Today's 2011 Bedding Distribution Channel Report . Furniture/Today's exclusive 2011 Bedding Distribution Report reveals 2010 bedding market share through seven distribution channels. Figures are based on 2010 retail sales of conventional mattresses and boxsprings, as well as foam bedding, futons, airbeds, adjustable beds and waterbeds.

Furniture Today's Top 25 Bedding Retailers 2011 . The Top 25 Bedding Retailers collectively enjoyed a strong year in 2010, posting an 8.8% gain in bedding revenues. That august group, which generated more than $5 billion in bedding revenues last year, featured 10 retailers who posted double-digit revenue gains. And four standouts — the Ashley Furniture HomeStores, Sears, Bob's Discount Furniture and Tempur-Pedic — managed to achieve 20%-plus bedding revenue gains. Furniture/Today's exclusive Top 25 Bedding Retailers report ranks the retailers based on their bedding revenues.

Bedbugs: New Survey Reveals Women's Bedbug Concerns , Women, bedding's key consumers, are very aware of bedbugs, see the bedbug problem as being a serious one in the country, but are confident that problem can be controlled. Those are some of the key conclusions of a survey of women consumers conducted by Furniture/Today in partnership with Medelia Inc., a business strategy firm headed by Delia Passi. Passi, a speaker at Furniture/Today's recent Bedding Conference, and Furniture/Today posed bedbug questions to a panel of women who shared their thoughts on key bedbug issues. Approximately 250 women answered a variety of questions. This is the first time that Furniture/Today has surveyed an exclusively female audience on bedbug issues.
Top 15 U.S. Bedding Producers 2011 , Furniture Today's ranking of the Top 15 Bedding Producers ranks companies according to 2010 U.S. wholesale bedding shipments. Returns, as well as shipments to Puerto Rico are excluded. Contract shipments are included in figures. Adjustments, including sales allowances and incentives, are also included and are reported in the notes when available.

2011 Retail Giants of Bedding , Furniture/Today's special bedding issue highlights four retail giants of bedding. The 2011 winners of this award are BedzzzExpress, Back To Bed, El Dorado Furniture and Nebraska Furniture Mart.

Furniture Today's 2011 Bedding Forecast . Furniture Today's exclusive 2011 Bedding Forecast provides bedding unit predictions for 2011 and the predicted dollar value of bedding shipments for 2011. And according to the data, the bedding industry will enjoy modest growth this year.

Furniture Today's Bedbugs 101: Everything you need to know about bedbugs but are too disgusted to ask . This exclusive report includes: 20 facts about Bedbugs; Bedbug statistics from a nationwide phone survey of more than 1,000 adults conducted by Infogroup/ORC on behalf of Enforcer Brand pest control products; Comments from leading bedding executives concerning bedbugs; A roadmap for marketers looking to connect with consumers concerned about bedbugs, based on data from Furniture/Today's exclusive HGTV Bedding Consumer Survey

Furniture Today's Consumer Views: Spotlight on Sleep Accessories , Do sleep accessories contribute to a better night’s sleep? It depends on which accessories you are talking about, a new consumer survey reveals. Sheets get the nod, but mattress encasement products aren’t viewed as contributors to that sometimes elusive better night of sleep.

Furniture Today's How gender issues affect the mattress sales process . Female sales associates, seen by some in the mattress industry as better able to connect with female consumers than their male counterparts, are in the minority in the bedding specialty stores, but are better represented on furniture store sales floors.

Furniture Today's Sleep accessories: Add-on sales opportunities . Here’s the set up: Consumers are sitting on their wallets. The housing market is lackluster. Unemployment is high. And, in our sector of the economy, mattress sales have been plummeting. What’s a smart retailer to do? Easy. Sell more sleep accessories.

Rating Sleep Surfaces: Furniture Today and HGTV Bedding Consumer Survey . Previous consumer research has revealed comfort as the No. 1 feature consumers look for when choosing a mattress. But, which construction types do consumers think are the most comfortable? This exclusive consumer data reveals which types of beds consumers currently sleep on, the kind of night’s sleep consumers get with their current type and which type consumers think is the most comfortable and why.

2009 Retail Giants of Bedding . Special issue explores people, places that make bedding industry unique.
Furniture Today's Mattress Sales Booster Manual 2009 . This exclusive analysis provides a three-step approach to help retailers boost their bedding sales and increase their sales tickets. The three steps include: focusing on the consumer, embrace specialty sleep and add accessories to merchandise mix.
Furniture Today's 2011 Bedding Forecast . Furniture Today's exclusive 2011 Bedding Forecast provides bedding unit predictions for 2011 and the predicted dollar value of bedding shipments for 2011. And according to the data, the bedding industry will enjoy modest growth this year.
Furniture Today Retail Planning Guide 2012 . Furniture Today's Retail Planning Guide 2012 includes our economic analyses of the year that was 2011 and our outlook for 2012. The report is divided into five main sections: Economic Outlook, E-Intent, Distribution Report, Industry Outlook and Rankings.
Furniture Today - The List 2011 . The List includes all of Furniture Today's 2011 exclusive rankings, including both retailer and manufacturer rankings. Rankings include the Top 100 US Furniture Stores, Fastest growing Top 100 Furniture Stores, Beyond the Top 100, Top 25 US Furniture and Bedding Retailers, Top 25 Bedding Retailers, Top 25 Sources for the US Furniture Market and Top 15 US Bedding Producers.
Bedding Yearbook - 2011 . Our annual Bedding Yearbook provides a compilation of key mattress reports we publish each year. In addition we include key players on the mattress landscape. On the producer side, we list the Top 15 Bedding Producers, a closely watched list that tells retailers which manufacturers are moving up and which ones are moving down. On the retail side of the business, we list the Top 25 Bedding Retailers, a mix of bedding specialists, furniture stores, department stores, warehouse clubs and others.
The ABC's of Mattress Selling . This exclusive report provides bedding retailers with an A-Z selling guide to improve mattress sales.
FT and HGTV Survey: Consumers & Retailers: Making the bedding connection . This exclusive research report bridges the gap between what the consumers want when choosing a mattress and what retailers promote, both on the sales floor and in advertising.
Furniture Today's Top 25 Bedding Retailers 2011 . The Top 25 Bedding Retailers collectively enjoyed a strong year in 2010, posting an 8.8% gain in bedding revenues. That august group, which generated more than $5 billion in bedding revenues last year, featured 10 retailers who posted double-digit revenue gains. And four standouts — the Ashley Furniture HomeStores, Sears, Bob's Discount Furniture and Tempur-Pedic — managed to achieve 20%-plus bedding revenue gains. Furniture/Today's exclusive Top 25 Bedding Retailers report ranks the retailers based on their bedding revenues.
FT and HGTV Present "Consumer Voices: The Bedding Shopping Experience" , This exclusive research examines why consumers choose to shop for a mattress in a particular retail channel, the likelihood of shopping in each distribution channel and what consumers would change in the mattress-buying experience.

Furniture Today's "Retail Bedding Spotlight" , During March and April, Furniture/Today surveyed bedding retailers about their operations, including bedding merchandise mix by type of bed. This report provides retailers with benchmarks to measure bedding merchandise performance.
Inside China's Bedding Industry - 2006 , Bedding Editor David Perry recently returned from a weeklong trip to China, where he visited mattress factories and foam and fiber suppliers.

Furniture Todays' Bedding Distribution Report -- Alternate Channels , This exclusive consumer data originates from the responses of 31,505 households to a survey conducted in December 2002 and January 2003.

Furniture Todays' Bedding Distribution Report -- Specialty Stores , This report extracts relevant data to look at consumer buying trends for bedding purchased through specialty stores, which were the second largest distribution channel for bedding purchases in 2002 and 2003.

Furniture Today's 2011 Bedding Distribution Channel Report , Furniture/Today's exclusive 2011 Bedding Distribution Report reveals 2010 bedding market share through seven distribution channels. Figures are based on 2010 retail sales of conventional mattresses and boxsprings, as well as foam bedding, futons, airbeds, adjustable beds and waterbeds.

Furniture Today's Bedding Update 2005 , Among the topics covered in reporting by Executive Editor David Perry were: the Chinese bedding threat, mattress flammability, the fast-developing visco-elastic foam category, the continuing rise of specialty sleep, and key new product development trends.

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