Snooze News Weekly | July 9 – 15, 2021
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Each week, we find, curate and share the most relevant bedding and mattress news stories from across the web. Check out what we’re reading and writing about this week.
In The News: Industry Focused Stories
- Malouf Adds New Accessories To Its Weekender Lineup: Malouf Home recently expanded its Weekender product line with a selection of new accessories. The additional products include a line of three sheet sets and three mattress protectors, each with a clear step-up story that satisfies unique customer needs. | Sleep Retailer[spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- Casper Keeps Getting Into Bed With The Retailers It Was Supposed To Disrupt: Casper recently penned a slew of new partnerships with some of the biggest traditional retailers in the home space: Mattress Warehouse and Bed Bath & Beyond to name a couple. So, has the disruptor made peace with the disrupted? | Business of Home [spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- NMG & TBI Partner To Bring Affordable Business Tech To Retailers:The new partnership makes valuable technological services more readily accessible to Nationwide Marketing Group members. | Sleep Retailer[spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- ISPA Recently Announced Its New Board Members & Reelected Trustees: The International Sleep Products Association (ISPA) has announced results of its Board of Trustees annual election of Trustees to serve new two-year terms. | BedTimes [spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- Bed Bath & Beyond Partners With Casper: Casper will not only have a shop-in-shop in-store experience in Bed Bath & Beyond’s New York City-based flagship store, but Casper products will also be available online at bedbathandbeyond.com and in various brick-and-mortar locations across the country. We’re not shocked, are you? | Sleep Retailer[spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- What’s Driving The 93% Retail RFID Adoption Rate In North America?: As we slowly come out of the pandemic in the US, sophisticated inventory tracking technology is growing more popular than ever at retail. Why? | Loss Prevention Magazine [spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- Eclipse Expands Licensee Footprint Into Africa: Through a new licensing agreement with Salidor of Morocco, Eclipse International has expanded its reach into North Africa. Salidor is Eclipse’s first licensee in the region and 82nd licensee overall. | Sleep Retailer[spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- The 7 Best Cooling Mattresses For Hot Sleepers: We all know sleeping hot is a top complaint from consumers trying to get better rest. This list could help you stock your store with new cooling products. Among the brands mentioned in this round up are Brooklyn Bedding, Tempur-Pedic, Eight, Saatva, Tuft & Needle and more. | House Beautiful[spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- Summer 2021 Mattress And Bedding Industry Trends:
In the lead up to the summer Las Vegas Market, we at Sleep Retailer took a moment and reflect on how the bedding marketplace has evolved over the past 15 months—and start looking for clues to where it may be heading. | Sleep Retailer
- Amazon’s New Radar Sensors May Help Alexa Monitor Your Sleep Patterns: The latest from Amazon are new radar sensors that could behave similarly to Google’s Soli sensor in its second generation Nest technology and help monitor your sleep. | The Verge[spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- Naturepedic Completes Organic Fraud Prevention Program: Sustainable mattress maker Naturepedic recently became the first non-food, certified organic product manufacturer to complete the Organic Trade Association’s new Organic Fraud Prevention Plan. | Sleep Retailer[spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- Tempur-Sealy Will Announce Its Q2 Financial Results Later This Month: Stay tuned for July 29th when Tempur-Sealy is set to release its second quarter earnings. | PR Newswire[spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
Health, Wellness & The Science Of Sleep
- A Combination Of 2 Existing Medications Could Reduce Sleep Apnea: The researchers recruited 15 otherwise healthy volunteers with OSA for the study, with three withdrawing before completing the trial. The team observed these individuals as they slept two nights. For one night, researchers administered each individual with the test medications, and on the other night, the participants took part in the study’s placebo group.|Medical News Today [spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- Study Shows High Incidence Of Dry Eye In Patients With Sleep Apnea: New research proves that the two conditions commonly go hand-in-hand. Find out why. | Healio [spacer height=”40px” id=”3″]
- School Based Mindfulness Program Helps Young Children Get Better Sleep: Researchers found that a school-based program in mindfulness training
— which involves being present in the moment, deep breathing and yoga movements — helped at-risk children not only curb that loss in sleep, but to gain more rest than they had before. | US News [spacer height=”40px” id=”3″] - A Primer On Sleep Talking: Everything you need to know when your partner knows the secrets that you keep because you’re talking in your sleep. | Medical News Today
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