A rendering of Brooklyn Bedding's new Glendale, Ariz., factory

ENNIS, Texas – While MD Mattress may be the only recent startup with a traditional manufacturing model in the bedding category, over the past couple of years the mattress industry has seen quite a bit of expansion.

Chad Grant and Brian Morrow, the founders of MD Mattress, jumped back into the category in 2019, just ahead of the growth explosion in the category

Over the past 18 months or so, a number of companies have expanded capacity with new facilities. Companies like Mlily USA, Brooklyn Bedding, South Bay International, Spring Air International and others have invested significantly in new and expanded manufacturing facilities for added capacity.

Bedding Industries of America to open factory in Southern California

Southerland readies new facility in Nashville

Precision Textiles ramps up in new N.C. facility

Brooklyn Bedding to invest $72M in new factory in Arizona

Mlily USA parent signs lease for second S.C. factory

Mlily USA parent secures 1.25M-sq-ft facility for second factory in Arizona

Corsicana Mattress breaks ground on 376,000-sq.-ft factory in hometown

Therapedic boosts capacity, footprint with two new licensees

Bedding investment boom: Producers betting on U.S. market with new facilities

Spring Air licensee begins production at new facility

South Bay International opens 160,000-sq.-ft. factory in Mexico

King Koil adds 40,000 sq. ft. to manufacturing facility

I’m Sheila Long O’Mara, executive editor at Furniture Today. Throughout my 25-year career in the home furnishings industry, I have been an editor with a number of industry publications and spent a brief stint with a public relations agency where I worked with some of the industry’s leading bedding brands. I rejoined Furniture Today in December 2020 with a focus on bedding and sleep products. It’s a homecoming for me, as I was a writer and editor with Furniture Today from 1994 until 2002. I’m happy to be back and look forward to telling the important stories impacting bedding retailers and manufacturers.

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