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Join ISPA today and take advantage of these valuable benefits for suppliers to the mattress industry!
The International Sleep Products Associations offers bedding supplier members the following products, programs, and services to reach potential customers and help improve your business and bottom line. Read more specifics on what ISPA has accomplished on behalf of its membership for the past several years.
- Facilitating Valuable Business Connections
- Keeping Members Always Informed
- Helping Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency
- Providing Proactive Industry Advocacy and Effective Media Relations
- Expanding the Market for Mattress Sales
- Encouraging Environmental Stewardship
Facilitating Valuable Business Connections
ISPA produces the biennial ISPA EXPO, the world’s largest trade show devoted exclusively to the mattress industry. Industry suppliers can efficiently and cost-effectively showcase their products and services to key buyers from around the world, all in one place at one time. Members receive substantial discounts on exhibiting.
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 exhibits in 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 new online BedTimes Supplies Guide, with improved search capability, provides a focused and robust tool allowing suppliers to reach a worldwide audience of targeted buyers for industry-specific products and services.
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.
Keeping Members Always Informed
Members are kept up-to-date on industry and business news, industry trends, regulatory developments and more throughBedTimes and Sleep Savvy magazines; BedTimes Bulletin and ISPA Advocacy Connection e-newsletters; and member-only content on the ISPA Web site. A special Suppliers Council Advisory newsletter keeps suppliers to the industry informed of key issues and events. 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 – such as the Mattress Flammability Resource Toolkit. Most reports are free to members and are conveniently available on ISPA’s website.
ISPA offers periodic workshops on topics critical to industry professionals in addition to educational sessions at the ISPA EXPO and the Industry Conference.
Helping Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency
Valuable Business Discount Services help members reduce bottom-line costs. ISPAFreight™ Transportation Program and a partnership with FedEx Shipping offer members access to a variety of discounted services to support their business operations.
BedTimes and Sleep Savvy magazines offer significant advertising discounts to members in reaching a targeted audience of buyers around the world.BedTimes also periodically offers suppliers the opportunityto announce new products free of charge in the Product Watch section.
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.
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 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.
Encouraging Environmental Stewardship
ISPA is encouraging environmental stewardship through itsrecently 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, complete and mail or fax back to 703-683-4503. If you have questions, please contact Jane Oseth.
Last updated on January 24, 2011
