ALEXANDRIA, Va.–U.S. dollar sales of mattresses lost 13.3 percent in August, totaling $227.6 million, according to figures from the monthly Bedding Barometer provided by the International Sleep Products Association.
Unit sales for the month were off 6.5 percent from August of 2008, to 753,428, while the average unit selling price for the month was $302.06, down 7.2 percent from August of last year. The figures were derived from a survey of 18 U.S. mattress manufacturers, whose dollar sales accounted for 56.3 percent of the wholesale dollar value of U.S. mattress shipments during the month.
For the January-through-August period, dollar sales declined 14.9 percent to $1.7 billion, while unit sales fell 11.4 percent to 5.4 million units. The average unit selling price for the first eight months of 2009 was $306.43, down 3.9 percent from the first eight months of 2008.