Are there "local" mattress manufacturers/outlets in Albuquerque, NM area

[phoenix]

Hi alan2a,

There is now an Urban Mattress store in Albuquerque. It carries all of Sherwoods lines, its own natural line, Vi-Spring, etc. Mark who owns the “franchise” is a nice person and pretty knowledgeable and will find out details for you about stuff inside the mattress.

The Urban Mattress store in Albuquerque is listed in the Albuquerque list here and I would agree that they are one of the better options or “possibilities” in the area.

Somewhere I noted that Phoenix states that Donlopillo went bankrupt in 2008 and goes on to say that the latex in the mattresses are Dunlop not Talalay. That is incorrect, . The mattress Donlopillo portion of the corporation remains in business in the UK and Sherwood bought the rights in north america. I have just gotten the Dunlopillo Ambien plush and the latex is Talalay as verified by Sherwood.

You have been given some incorrect information here. Dunlopillo was a manufacturer of Talalay latex and when they went bankrupt the brand name “Dunlopillo” still had “value” because of their long history and was purchased by a number of different companies around the world and its ownership became very fractured. Most of the equipment from the factory and the rights for the Dunlopillo name in North America (and some other countries as well) were purchased by Latex International (post #2 here and the posts or articles it links to has more about the ownership of the Dunlopillo brand name in different areas of the world).

In the case of Dunlopillo branded mattresses that are in the countries that are owned by Latex International … the latex in the Dunlopillo branded mattresses would be Talalay latex made by Latex International.

The first mattress manufacturer to license the Dunlopillo brand name for North America was Paramount mattresses in 2010 but this was only a license to use the name. Sherwood purchased the license to use the name in North America in 2014. These types of brand name licensing arrangements are common throughout the industry.

A comment on Brooklyn Bedding which if I’m not mistaken is Dreamfoam. I owned a dreamfoam purchased on Amazon which we bought in August of 2012. It has developed deep body impression holes and has become one of the most uncomfortable mattresses we’ve ever owned. Though I could have used the warranty and replaced it with another dreamfoam I decided it was an inferior product and I wanted nothing more to do with them so I am eating the loss after only two years and buying the above mentioned mattress.

Dreamfoam is a sister Company to Brooklyn Bedding with the same ownership but Dreamfoam is the newer of the two companies. The Talalay latex that is used in the Dreamfoam mattresses is the same type of latex that is used in the Dunlopillo mattresses (and many other manufacturers that use Latex International Talalay latex as well) so it’s certainly not an “inferior” material or an inferior mattress. There was a period of time where Latex International was having some quality control issues with their latex which affected every manufacturer that used their latex (no matter what the brand name of the mattress may have been) and it’s very possible that your mattress could have included defective latex (see post #2 here). It would make sense to me to ask them about a warranty replacement if your mattress has the type of impressions you are indicating since that’s exactly the type of defects that warranties are designed to protect against.

It would also make sense to do a little more detailed research before you completely believe some of the information you may encounter in the industry which may not always be completely accurate :).

Phoenix