Join today and take advantage of ISPA's
valuable benefits for mattress manufacturers!
The International Sleep Products Association (ISPA) offers bedding manufacturer members products, programs, and services to help improve your business and reduce bottom line costs. Read more specifics on what ISPA has accomplished on behalf of its membership for the past several years.
Helping to Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency
ISPAFreight™ Transportation Program and a partnership with FedEx Shipping offer members a variety of discounted services to support their business operations.
ISPA produces the biennial ISPA EXPO, the world’s largest trade show exclusively for the mattress industry. Featuring exhibits of machinery, products, and services, it allows manufacturers to shop for the resources they need to run their businesses more efficiently and cost-effectively. Members receive significant registration discounts.
Wage, Cost, and Management Compensation Surveys help members analyze their financial and operating performance. These reports provide industry-specific data to help members control costs, identify weaknesses, provide insights into how to improve operations, and benchmark against others in the industry. These valuable surveys are available to members only.
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Facilitating Valuable Business Connections
ISPA Members build and strengthen relationships with business partners from around the world through ISPA events such as the ISPA EXPO and the annual Industry Conference & Exhibition. These opportunities also help members stay abreast of news and trends affecting the industry. ISPA also sponsors the Bedding Centre at Interzum Cologne in Germany — allowing the mattress industry a gathering place at the largest international home furnishings manufacturing trade show in the world.
The online BedTimes Supplies Guide provides a robust search tool with quick and easy access to an extensive directory of industry-specific suppliers and their products and services where manufacturers can shop for products from several vendors at once.
By taking an active role in ISPA leadership and on committees, members have the invaluable opportunity to share their voice on issues affecting the industry. They build camaraderie with other industry leaders, share ideas on solving common problems, and raise their individual and company profiles.
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Providing Proactive Industry Advocacy and Effective Media Relations
ISPA takes a lead role in representing the interests of the mattress industry at the federal, state, and local levels of government, maintaining a watchful eye on legislative and regulatory developments and informing members about how these issues can affect their businesses. ISPA monitors issues of specific interest to the industry such as flammability, product safety and liability, environmental restrictions, national bedding laws, and more. The association promotes pro-business policies that reduce unnecessary costs for manufacturers. ISPA makes grassroots tools available for members to get directly engaged through its online Legislative Action Center.
The Sleep Product Safety Council (SPSC), the safety arm of the association, aids manufacturers by providing important consumer safety information, supporting industry research, and promoting safe industry practices.
ISPA regularly works with the media to add balance and accuracy to stories about mattress safety, bedbugs and other issues. ISPA acts as the key point of contact and speaks on behalf of the industry—removing members’ brands from the spotlight on sensitive issues.
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Expanding the Market for Mattress Sales
For over 25 years ISPA’s Better Sleep Council (BSC) has helped expand the market for mattress sales by educating consumers through extensive media campaigns and it’s Web site about the important role that mattresses play in their sleep, health and quality of life. The BSC also conducts valuable consumer and sleep research. The results are shared exclusively with members and can be used in their own marketing efforts.
The association reaches out to retailers through Sleep Savvy magazine (free to ISPA members and retailers) to help them better understand consumer trends and attitudes, offer successful selling ideas, business insights and know-how, and tips on helping customers make the sleep-health-mattress connection.
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Keeping Members Always Informed
Members are kept up-to-date on industry and business news, product information, industry trends, regulatory developments and more through BedTimes and Sleep Savvy magazines; BedTimes Bulletin and ISPA Advocacy Connection e-newsletters; and member-only content on the ISPA Web site. All are free to members.
ISPA’s statistics provide timely data to help members stay competitive and on top of important trends in today’s dynamic and challenging global marketplace. Reports include the Annual Mattress Industry Report of Sales and Trends (which includes the CSIL World Mattress Industry Report), monthly Bedding Barometer Sales Trend Report, and the Mattress Industry Forecast. This $7,000 package is free and exclusively available to ISPA members.
ISPA produces other reports, publications and business tools to help members address specific issues and maximize the productivity and success of their business. These include the Mattress Flammability Resource Toolkit, the Manual of Labeling Laws & Registration Requirements, and the Voluntary Dimensional Guidelines for Bedding Products. These are available free to members and are conveniently available on ISPA’s website.
ISPA offers periodic workshops on timely topics critical to bedding manufacturers in addition to educational sessions at the ISPA EXPO and the Industry Conference.
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Encouraging Environmental Stewardship
ISPA is encouraging environmental stewardship through its recently launched sustainability initiative ISPAEarth™. From material sourcing through distribution and used product disposal, this initiative will help improve the environmental impact of our industry’s operations and products, and raise awareness of our overall environmental stewardship. One aspect is to coordinate efforts to improve the recycling of used mattress components. These efforts will reduce the amount of used product on the market and help eliminate mattress renovators, a group that competes for nearly $1 billion in new mattress sales.
To join and begin taking advantage of all these benefits today, download the appropriate application below, complete and mail or fax back to 703-683-4503. If you have questions, please contact Jane Oseth.
* health plan may not be available in all states or outside the U.S.
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