Tempurpedic

A Denver-based mattress manufacturer is now closing its doors, after doing business for almost four decades.

United Sleep Products of Denver has shut the doors of its 89,000-square-foot building at 412 Oak St., where it began in 1970 as Kinder Furniture & Bedding. As many as 160 employees have worked at the factory in recent years.

The company also reportedly has closed its factory in Fort Wayne, Ind.

United Sleep produced bedding products such as futons and coil, no-flip and memory-foam mattresses. The Denver plant produced about 2,000 pieces of bedding daily.

Inflatable mattresses are great for when you’re having guest sleeping over. However, it’s not so great when you let a tiny baby sleep on it.

Mississippi authorities are investigating the death of a seven month old baby who apparently died after the inflatable mattress the child was sleeping on deflated. The tragedy comes as SIDS awareness month draws to a close. Local health and safety officials urge everyone to be aware of unsafe practices that can kill infants .

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This is good news to hoteliers and people who enjoy staying at hotels.  If the bed in which you lie on, and from which all other people lie on, is from Mattress Safe® — it has just been recently accredited to be bed bug resistant:

A “Bite Test” and a “Penetration and Escape Test” were performed on Mattress Safe’s “Ultimate” Zippered Encasement by a certified entomologist to 1.) determine whether the bed bugs can actively feed through the fabric of the encasement and 2.) to discover whether the mattress encasement can be used as part of a bed bug exclusion or inclusion process.

We’ve really got to learn to appreciate what we have, for other people not only lack the right mattress to sleep comfortably; they only have bed nets smelling with insecticide to be able to sleep without worry. And what they worry about isn’t just bed bugs but disease causing insects.

The Global Fund says insecticide-treated bed nets are one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent malaria transmission.

Recently published studies show a combination of bed nets and treatment can reduce malaria transmission by as much as 90 percent in areas with high coverage rates.

The EZ Portable bed was presented at this year’s Hong Kong Houseware Fair and it is basically a guest bed. Supported by steel bed frames, the mattress is actually air pumped and is comfortable enough for sleep-overs. When done with using, the whole thing is foldable and storage is no problem.

Weight limit for the EZ bed is 400lbs.

Via Aving News Network

Parents in London have asked a retail store there, to pull out beds meant for sale for six year old girls. Their beef? They didn’t like the name. The bed is called Lolita and according to this Reuters report, it is a term that connotes sexually active pre-teen girls.

LONDON (Reuters) - A chain of retail stores in Britain has withdrawn the sale of beds named Lolita and designed for six-year-old girls after furious parents pointed out that the name was synonymous with sexually active pre-teens.

Woolworths said staff who administer the web site selling the beds were not aware of the connection.

Maybe it’s a reflection of the current state of the economy today, even Tempur-Pedic mattress sales are sagging….

According to a report from Forbes, the financial magazine which was able to get in touch with the luxury mattress company, this has been rather expected:

Although the first quarter isn’t quite over, sales thus far have been less than stellar due to a downturn in consumer spending. The company now expects high single-digit percentage decrease in sales for the quarter as compared to the year prior. Tempur-Pedic also expects its earnings per share price for the quarter to be about half that of the same quarter of 2007, which came in at 35 cents per share. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial had expected 44 cents per share. The company will announce its first-quarter results in April.

Here’s a case of a guy from Wirral near Liverpool, England, who was literally killed by cigarettes. From the accounts of this news, he was smoking in bed when he accidentally dropped the cigarette on his mattress, causing it to blaze up and killing him in the process. He could not get up from it because he was disabled and therefore confined to the bed. But I guess, as with most smokers, who finds it hard to kick the habit, he could not help himself when he lit that cigarette while lying on the mattress. And of course, that would be the last time he would pop one.

Select Comfort, one of the leading bed retailers in America, gave away one hundred six Sleep Number beds, including accessories, to the new Ronald McDonald House erected in Los Angeles.

“We are thrilled to receive Select Comfort’s generous gift of Sleep Number beds,” said Vincent Bryson, executive director of the Ronald McDonald House of Los Angeles. “This generous gift helps us provide much-needed and appreciated comfort to our families during their stay at this home-away-from-home.”

The Ronald McDonald House provides children with medical treatment as well as a temporary sleeping space for homeless families. Select Comfort is the house’s bed provider since 2001 and has donated over 5,000 Sleep Number beds to date, to all Ronald McDonald Houses in America.

Some celebrity news….as they do sleep, you know. They sleep in the lap of luxury with their affluent lifestyles, in fact! But is it a lifestyle so expensive that Sharon Osbourne allegedly wasn’t able to pay for her custom built bed? Going through the report, the news actually isn’t as horrid as it seems.

Sharon Osbourne is facing a $26,000 lawsuit over a king-size bed.

Sharon is being sued for breach of contract, fraud and deceit by California’s Beyond Pillows Etc design store who claim she never paid for the custom-made bed delivered to her Hidden Hills mansion earlier this month.