Volume : V, Issue : XI, November - 2015

TRENDS AND OUT LOOK FOR SLEEP MATTRESS INDUSTRY IN INDIA

Hima C Menon

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 “Top part of a bed consisting of a strong cloth cover filled with solid soft material”. It is a small definition for mattress from Longman’s dictionary of contemporary English. To be more clear “The products providing a surface to sleep or rest upon that are fit for use by human beings for a long period of time, consisting of a strong cloth cover filled with materials and that can be placed on an existing support bed structure”. Moving from just a relaxation apparatus to life style asset the mattress has to say lot to us about its journey from past, present and towards future in India. The Indian mattress industry is nearly 50 years old.Historically, mattresses have been filled with a variety of natural materials, including straw and feathers. Modern mattresses usually contain either an inner spring core or material such as latex, visco–elastic or other polyurethane–type foams. Mattresses may also be filled with air or water or a variety of natural fibers, such as in futons. In past decades, people of India used to make/buy mattress which are made up of cotton or coir. Then the time ought up a diversion with the rubber and latex. And this made a way to the industrialization of sleeping mattress. In its expedition, mattress observed many ups and downs in its market; still it continued to flow forward, slowly but consistently. It displayed a makeover in all aspects of its size, shape, texture, fillings etc. From the material of essentiality today it became a symbol of luxury

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Hima C Menon / TRENDS AND OUT LOOK FOR SLEEP MATTRESS INDUSTRY IN INDIA / Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 11 November 2015

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