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There’s an interesting report on mattress trends as featured on ABC News. It touches on the basics of shopping for a mattress but it also covers on how consumers have plenty of choices with mattresses today that some even consider “financing” their purchases.

You may have failed to watch this segment but not to worry, it is archived and still accesible. You can watch the full six minute feature over here.

According to this news story, one of the most bug-infested cities in the country is in Cincinnati, prompting residents and business leaders to campaign for more proactive awareness in the hopes of reducing and fighting off this…sucky problem. For instance, thrift stores have started refusing used mattresses or stuffed furniture and there is always a constant need to spray products for their own safety.

“I spray blankets, all coats, socks, I spray everything.””While many people believe that if your furniture is really infested with bedbugs, the only choice is to throw it out, experts are now saying you may not have to go quite that far, there are some options.”

This is probably great news for those connected to the mattress industry. Research from SBI Reports, a marketing arm that taps and checks trending in many industries and consumer goods establishments, indicate that the market value of mattresses should increase into a 10-billion dollar industry by 2011 in the US alone.

From 2002 to 2006, the value of mattress shipments increased 11% annually as a result of fairly substantial increases after 2003. Imports grew at an 18% CAGR, slightly faster than exports (14%). For the projected period, 2007 through 2011, SBI forecasts strong growth of exports, from $246 million in 2007 to $438 million in 2011 (a 16% CAGR), as U.S. companies target new markets, particularly in Asia. Imports are expected to grow at a slightly lower CAGR, 12% over the next five years, while shipments, the largest segment of the mattress market, will post a 10% CAGR.

It’s news like this that teach us to consider properly transporting furniture and mattresses from one place to another. It may sound like a simple and logical task but transport needs strategic planning. While the story doesn’t say why the woman was allowed to be on the mattress while in transit (is she bedridden? is she not allowed to get up from it?), there clearly wasn’t any thought given to safety in general.

Woman dies from fall off mattress in truck bed

A 55-year-old Wills Point woman died Sunday night after falling off a mattress that was being transported in the bed of a pickup truck in the Waco Bay area in southern Hunt County.

Ah, the bed bug problem. It’s a perpetual dilemma. Hence mattress manufacturers continuously come up with all kinds of products to fight these off. But are these new products really able to rid of bed bugs? The visco-memory foam mattresses, for instance, with its more advanced composition than a regular mattress, promises to at least be bed bug free. But is it really?

NBC News has some revealing information, in an interview with Dini M. Miller, PhD of virginia Tech’s Urban Pest Management:

Can bedbugs also live in visco-memory foam beds? I have read some claims online that say that the bedbugs cannot get into the foam beds?

Are you the type who loves to lounge and sleep outdoors? Especially made by Domani, this outdoor bed resembles gravel stones, complete with a comfy mattress and some type of cover to boot, was presented at the  Maison & Objet 2007 fair.

Via Aving News Network 

October is National Chiropractic Month and one of things everyone needs to recognize, based from the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) is that we need to be conscious of the mattresses and pillows we sleep on.

A 2006 study published in the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine showed that sleeping on a new mattress can significantly reduce stiffness and back pain. Researchers found that study participants reported immediate and sustained benefits after sleeping on a new mattress. This was especially true of participants who entered the study with back pain complaints, as they reported a 63 percent improvement in back discomfort with a new mattress.

According to a recent news, people are now opting for the more expensive kind of mattresses, because it does help them sleep a lot better.

Approximately one-third of Americans are sleep-deprived at some point in their lives, according to experts at the Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorder Center.In the search for restful relief, some people are forking out big bucks for high-priced mattresses.

“Our high-end mattress sales are skyrocketing,” said Felix Suarez of Super Mattress in Miami. Suarez said the TempurPedic line of mattresses started the trend. “When other companies saw that people were willing to pay $1,000 or more for a good mattress, it opened a whole new world,” said Suarez.

The Record reports that a mattress salesperson with a very questionable history, is prowling senior citizens club in Canada, pitching a magnetic mattress that promises to relieve different health conditions. The salesperson and is selling these between $1,800 to $2,800 when it can be bought from suppliers at $40-$80.

Thorsten Wietschel sprang for a free schnitzel lunch this week for about 30 people, mostly senior citizens, at the Schwaben Club. Then he launched into a two-hour “private lecture” on the wonders of mattress covers fitted with magnets –priced from $1,800 to $2,800 — to help with everything from incontinence to strokes. “It’s not snake oil and we are not fly-by-night,” Wietschel said in an interview before his presentation.

This is a great news that will benefit Mother Earth! eMattress is now accepting old memory foam mattresses purchased from their stores for recycling.

The fact is, many garbage landfills are filled up to capacity with tons of old and dilapidated mattresses disposed every year. Mattresses are hard to recycle but since eMattress carry all-natural memory foam products, these are essentially biodegrable: