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and Member Value<br />
publication, Sleep Savvy magazine, targeted at the mattress<br />
retail community. Each month Sleep Savvy reaches 24,500<br />
bedding retailers with information to help them better<br />
understand consumer trends and attitudes, offer successful<br />
selling ideas and retail business insights, and provide tips<br />
on helping customers make the sleep-health-mattress<br />
connection. Complete issues of the magazine are now online<br />
in an easy-to-use digital format. For more information, visit<br />
www.sleepsavvymagazine.com.<br />
Sleep Products Safety Council<br />
SPSC Mission To provide consumer information, support<br />
research and promote activities that advance the safety of sleep<br />
products.<br />
The Sleep Products Safety Council<br />
is a safety division of ISPA. For 20<br />
years, the SPSC has been the catalyst<br />
for a broad range of research and<br />
education activities aimed at reducing hazards associated with<br />
sleep products. The SPSC embodies the mattress industry’s<br />
longstanding commitment to make mattresses that will provide<br />
consumers with a safe and restful night’s sleep. For more<br />
information, visit the SPSC Web site at www.safesleep.org or<br />
email spsc@sleepproducts.org.<br />
ISPAEarth: The Mattress Industry’s<br />
Sustainability<br />
Initiative<br />
ISPAEarth is a multifaceted<br />
effort to improve the<br />
environmental impact of the<br />
mattress industry’s operations<br />
and products and to raise the<br />
public’s perception of our overall social responsibility. As<br />
“green” manufacturing and sustainability rapidly become<br />
recognized as critical to society’s future, the mattress<br />
industry is seeing more attention toward “going green”<br />
by nongovernmental organizations, consumer advocates,<br />
environmentalists and the government. ISPA has taken the<br />
lead for the industry by establishing ISPAEarth, the industry’s<br />
first comprehensive sustainability initiative. Plans are under<br />
way to develop a mattress component recycling program to<br />
improve the recycling of used mattress materials, an issue for<br />
the industry for many years.<br />
www.sleepproducts.org/bedtimes<br />
ISPA EXPO Trade Fair<br />
E very<br />
two years, the ISPA EXPO offers<br />
mattress manufacturers and suppliers<br />
the largest and most comprehensive<br />
event in the mattress business. The EXPO<br />
features the industry’s premier trade<br />
show, with nearly 200 exhibitors from<br />
around the world showcasing the latest mattress machinery,<br />
components, supplies and services. The event includes tours<br />
of American mattress factories for non-U.S. manufacturers<br />
and an unparalleled lineup of educational, social and<br />
networking opportunities. ISPA EXPO 2010 will be held March<br />
3-6, 2010, in Charlotte, N.C., U.S. For more information, visit<br />
the ISPA Web site at www.sleepproducts.org/ispaexpo or<br />
email info@sleepproducts.org.<br />
<strong>BedTimes</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong><br />
T he<br />
only trade and business journal dedicated exclusively<br />
to the sleep products industry, <strong>BedTimes</strong> focuses on<br />
topics most important to mattress manufacturers and<br />
suppliers around the world—new products, legislative and<br />
regulatory updates, business issues, manufacturing and<br />
marketing trends, and more. <strong>BedTimes</strong> covers the major<br />
bedding markets and trade shows throughout the world,<br />
including ISPA EXPO and Interzum Cologne. Each month’s<br />
issue is now available online in an easy-to-use digital format<br />
at www.sleepproducts.org/bedtimes. The magazine’s<br />
December issue contains the <strong>BedTimes</strong> Supplies Guide, the<br />
only comprehensive listing of suppliers for the mattress<br />
and sleep products industry. The guide also can be found<br />
online at www.bedtimessuppliesguide.com. ISPA members<br />
receive discounted advertising rates. Contact Kerri Bellias at<br />
kbellias@sleepproducts.org.<br />
www.sleepproducts.org Web Site<br />
I SPA’s<br />
user-friendly Web site provides all of ISPA’s products<br />
and services at your fingertips, including a worldwide<br />
membership directory, free publication downloads, updates on<br />
advocacy and regulatory issues, industry statistics and more.<br />
The site posts breaking industry news, event information and<br />
Web exclusives from <strong>BedTimes</strong> magazine. A substantial part of<br />
the content is available exclusively to ISPA members.<br />
501 Wythe St., Alexandria, VA 22314-1917<br />
Phone 703-683-8371 • Fax 703-683-4503<br />
Web www.sleepproducts.org<br />
Email info@sleepproducts.org<br />
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