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7/30/2023
Kingsdown, Inc will introduce its much-anticipated new foam assortment, K2 by Kingsdown™ at Las Vegas Market, house C1401. Showcased within the showroom’s entrance window, K2—designed to show heads each on the Market and on retail flooring—options eight fashions with two distinct appears to be like on the beds’ uniquely “Kool” knitted covers. A snow-capped mountain vary indicative of the world’s second-highest peak stretches throughout the floor of the gathering’s premium fashions, whereas a snowflake sample on a darker background drift throughout the opening value level beds. All eight are backed by custom-made, back-lit headboards picturing the mountain vary and the tagline “Koolest Mattress within the World.™”
With prompt retails starting from $1799 to $2799, K2 provides a singular cooling story with a concentrate on warmth removing and marks a major enlargement into the all-foam class by Kingsdown. “We consider there’s loads of room within the market for an ideal foam line to do extraordinarily properly,” mentioned Kingsdown Chairman Mike James, “and we all know that retailers are in search of options.”
Drawing on the educational from the success of Kingsdown’s regional Zedbed model, James mentioned, “We knew that to achieve success throughout the U.S., the product has to have an ideal story and an ideal really feel, so the design staff actually tore the engine aside and began from the bottom up in creating the K2 assortment.” The staff started by experimenting with softer cores and railroaded parts to innovate the best core construction.
“Whereas coolness and warmth removing are important for sleeping properly, and we tackle that at each stage in these beds, consolation is paramount, and the texture must be proper. Given the growing recognition of adjustable bases, we additionally checked out bendability. Impressed by the articulation of Zedbed, “which bends splendidly on a movement base,” James mentioned, “we’ve got integrated a flex-stretch backside to permit for easy transitions on movement bases. We then visited suppliers to seek out foams that may provide a extremely fantastic, cuddly really feel on the floor with a cooling story, together with one thing that may be a bit firmer. The result’s that we’re bringing to Market two nice feels, a agency and a luxurious, at each value stage, with essentially the most premium model incorporating microcoils.”
Moreover, though James famous that the gathering’s knit covers do incorporate PCM, the staff discovered methods to keep away from the slick and slippery feeling that cooling yarns are likely to impart to create “a significantly better hand.” The entire fashions characteristic heat-wicking centi(GR)ade know-how (which makes use of graphene strips to dissipate warmth from the physique) and all the core and higher foam layers are ventilated for cooling efficiency. Covers are additionally ventilated to permit warmth to flee.
Lastly, the K2 assortment is supported with a full slate of partaking advertising and marketing supplies for what James referred to as “a complete package deal that we anticipate to actually fire up the mud within the market this summer time.”
About Kingsdown, Inc.
Kingsdown, Inc., based in 1904, is a producer of premium mattress programs that serves main retailers throughout the US, Canada, and in additional than 20 nations. Every Kingsdown product is manufactured utilizing handcrafted strategies, mixed with state-of-the-art analysis, supplies, and tools.
Analysis and product improvement, manufacturing and distribution amenities are headquartered in Mebane, North Carolina and Ontario, Canada, with extra worldwide workplaces situated in England, Hong Kong, Japan, and Mexico. Canadian manufacturing and distribution are primarily based in Woodbridge, Ontario; Calgary, Alberta; and Shawinigan, Quebec. Extra manufacturing amenities are situated in California, Florida, Texas, Virginia, Australia, Brazil, China, Malaysia, Mexico, Taiwan and Vietnam. In 2018, The Kingsdown Group was fashioned by way of the acquisition of Zedbed Worldwide, a number one foam mattress producer, and the merger of Owen & Firm with Kingsdown, Inc. to kind one of many fastest-growing sleep know-how teams in North America. For extra info, go to kingsdown.com.