ALEXANDRIA, Va.–U.S. sales of mattresses took another steep drop in June, falling by 12 percent on a dollar basis to $198.1 million, as compared to June of last year.
The sales data comes from the monthly Bedding Barometer, produced by the International Sleep Products Association out of a survey of U.S. mattress manufacturers. The numbers also show that June mattress sales on a unit basis decreased 9 percent from June 2008, to 647,870. The average unit selling price of mattresses sold in June finished at $305.72, 3.3 percent down from June of 2008.
For the first half of 2009, dollar sales of mattresses plummeted 16.2 percent from the first six months of 2008, totaling $1.2 billion. On a unit basis, first-half sales were off 12.7 percent to 3.9 million. The average unit selling price fell 4 percent to $306.28.