From the June 20, 2011, issue of Furniture Today 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. All figures, except those of publicly held companies which break out U.S. bedding shipments as a separate line of business, and those who supply audited or accountant-verified figures, are Furniture Today market research estimates. All figures are for the 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2010 and 2009. Three of the companies - IBC, Serta and Simmons - supplied audited or accountant-verified figures. Three of the companies – Sealy, Select Comfort and Tempur-Pedic- are publicly held and provided figures to Furniture/Today. Together, shipments for these six companies represent 82% of the Top 15 and 68% of the industry. Estimates for the remaining companies were derived from a variety of sources, including the companies themselves, public company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as published and unpublished reports. Furniture Today also reviewed sales estimates on each company provided by competitors, suppliers and industry analysts before arriving at the published estimates. *3 pages* Please Note: This report is available only as an electronic download in PDF format. Blue "Download" button to right of report name on confirmation screen. If you ordered multiple reports, you will need to hit the "Back" key in order to download remaining reports. |
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