High Point Market Update
High Point’s Spring Market is going well with retail buyers scouring showrooms to seeking out products they can sell to their customers. Manufacturers continue to enhance their lines, extending collections, and unveiling new add-ons allowing retailers to deliver more to their consumers. With these additions, and hints of big reveals to come, these are our highlights from High Point.
Ashley Sleep
The advanced memory foam collection from Ashley Sleep offers comfortable mattresses complete with the company’s Torso Tec lumbar support layer. This layer is designed to contour to a body’s shape, providing support without unwanted pressure points.
Blu Sleep Products
We were excited to see Blu Sleep’s complete pillow collection — from aloe vera to mallow extract or eucalyptus, each pillow in the Nature Series offers a unique sleep experience!
Classic Brands
The redesigned PostureCloud is now customizable to your store. The four-sku collection is available in blue or tan allowing retailers to capture the attention of a wider range of consumers with the mattress collection. While viewing the PostureCloud, we also saw Seahawk Designs’ latest bedframe with customizable headboards and the company’s innovative under-bed storage systems.
Comfortaire
The Euro Elite, the low profile option in the company’s Elite Series, includes proprietary Top AirlTM /Edge to Edge Air technology positioning air at the surface of the mattress where it gently cushions each unique body shape providing proper postural alignment.
Enso Sleep Systems
Enso sleep continues to expand its memory foam mattress collections introducing the 16” Moselle memory foam with 3 inches of baffled premium memory foam clusters. Further expansion is expected within the company’s pillow program too.
Fabrictech International
The expanded PureCare line offers retailers the opportunity to present an entire sleep solution for better, healthier sleep. With mattress and pillow protectors, five and six-sided encasement products and a complete line of dust mite and fungi resistant pillows, the company offers sleep environment solutions retailers can sell.
FXI
Embracing its corporate tagline – We Find Solutions – the company is due to launch its bed bug protector this summer. The bed bug protector positioned under the mattress utilizes natural ingredients to both trap and kill insects. The research and development driven company’s acquisition of Anatomic Global leads us to believe this isn’t the first innovation we’ll see from their bedding research.
Gold Bond Mattress Company
The family-owned, New England-based Gold Bond Mattress Company continues to impress with its innovative two-sided Sacro-Support encased coil mattress collection. Using Leggett & Platt’s new Softech Mini. Adding both support and resilience, the smaller 1.5-inch height, spring is ideally placed within Goldbond’s new Duchess and Baroness pillow-top mattresses with over 3,000 coils!
Jamison Bedding Company
Encased in the company’s proprietary JGelTM, Jamison’s new gel pillow offers consumers malleable ability to ensure their neck, shoulders, and head are adequately supported for their sleeping preferences.
Magniflex
Magniflex’s new Uno collection completes the package showcasing the Italian manufacturer’s craftsmanship and design with an affordable base and headboard option. The easy to assemble, collection offers a headboard and frame, with a variety of fabric and finish choices.
PalmPring Organic Mattress
Made from layers of recycled coconut husks and natural latex, the PalmPring mattress offers a firm, supportive mattress with organic cotton ticking. An organic wool and cotton topper can be added to customize the sleep experience.
Paramount Bedding
The company’s partnership with Dr. Maas allows for further sleep education for consumers. With a scheduled appearance at Mattress RX in NC, Dr. Maas will surely gain exposure for Paramount Sleep’s HD Mattress collection.
Protect-A-Bed
A newly launched point-of-sale rack allows retailers to better display the company’s complete line of protection products. From mattress protectors, to mattress encasements and crib protectors to pillow protectors, Protect-A-Bed® products create a dry, hygienic, bed bug free and anti-allergy sleep zone while protecting the mattress warranty.
Pure LatexBLISS
Exhibiting from their new showroom, the two-year old company continues to expand on national and global stages. Showing a wide collection of all-latex mattresses, the fresh new space allows retailers to better understand their story and envision how they can convey the same message in their showroom.
Reverie
Through their partnership with Celebrity Cruises, cruisers can experience Reverie’s patented, customizable air cylinder technology. The company’s mattresses include natural rubber and breathable natural bamboo covers. Those traveling on the penthouse level will also experience the wonder of the company’s adjustable base too.
Salem Sleep Systems
The company’s 100% machine wash and dryable memory foam pillow provides consumers reassured cleanliness meeting Oeko-Tex Standard 10 class, CertiPUR Standard Safety, Health and environmental certified in accordance with the latest ISO 9001 standards.
Sealy
Midwest-based KB Furniture and Mattress has received and is now selling the new Sealy Optimum line we first saw at the Winter Las Vegas Market. Supported by a full-scale cross-platform, multi-media campaign the Optimum collection goes nation-wide this July.
Serta
Continuing to improve and expand the iComfort collection, we saw new accessories in this impressive line. Driven by consumer demand and retailer feedback, the company has expanded its iComfort pillow collection to include more options with its new scrunch pillows.
Shifman Mattresses
We are looking forward to seeing the entries for Shifman’s new Facebook contest! Taking their social media to a new level through twitter, Facebook, and pinterest accounts the family-owned company is looking towards the future and reaching consumers through a variety of media.
Sleep & Beyond
Embracing the health benefits of wool and cotton, Sleep & Beyond’s washable wool comforters, pillows, and sheet collections, Sleep & Beyond offer the benefits of all natural sleep solutions over multiple price points.
Spirit Sleep
Continue to provide quality at an affordable price, Spirit Sleep’s new 8, 10, and 12-inch gel infused memory foam mattress collection offer the convenience of Spirit Sleep’s easy drop-ship program.
Offering consumers the best of both specialty and traditional mattress options, the gel hybrid Kingsbury collection combines the cooling power of gel with the resilient support of innersprings.
Wright of Thomasville
May not be a name most retailers know, but their work is certainly something all of us recognize. As one of the leading point of sale producers in the mattress and beverage industries, the company makes labels, packaging and point of sale pieces for manufacturers and showrooms across the country.