ALEXANDRIA, Va.–Carpenter Co. is back with the International Sleep Products Association.
The basic-bedding manufacturer had left the organization, along with mattress producers Englander and Anatomic Global, during the chairmanship of Rick Anderson, president of Tempur-Pedic North America, which had filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against other manufacturers including several members of ISPA. Anderson resigned his chairmanship two weeks ago, replaced by vice chairman Don Wright of Wright of Thomasville. Last week, Dick Doyle, the trade group’s president resigned.
In an ISPA statement, Ed Malechek, Carpenter’s executive vice president, said the company’s issues with ISPA “have been resolved by the new leadership.”
Earlier this week, Englander announced that it also would rejoin the association. Wright said the return of both Carpenter and Englander is “a vote of confidence in the association ... and further proof that we are on the right track.”