Mattress Forum

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/sleepyhead-expands-australia-132459

So as of November 1st Sleepyhead now owns the Dunlopillo brand as well as Latex Gold in Australia and I'm assuming the Dunlopillo Australian manufacturing facilities as well (the Dunlopillo brand is really fractured and it's products are produced in quite a few countries apparently). So they now can produce Polyurethane foams (Dunlop Foams), Dunlop latex foams (NZ Foam Latex) and Talalay latex (Dunlopillo). There aren't too many companies in the world that produce all 3 under single ownership.

Since they how have the rights to produce Talalay latex as well as Dunlop latex. I wonder if they will re-word the New Zealand Foam Latex website to be a little more accurate and a little less critical of Talalay latex. Since Sleepyhead has plans to be a major worldwide brand and not just expand in Australia/NZ, I wonder if we will start seeing more Latex Gold and/or Dunlopillo latex in North America. I wonder too it they can sell Dunlopillo in countries where the brand name is owned by someone else.

Phoenix

In any case it's nice to have a latex mattress nearby that I can try out and see if I like the feel.  It's expensive to get over to Vancouver just to mattress shop, but at some point I'll have to bite the bullet, I imagine.

Vancouver Island is paradise and is the CENTER of the world. If it's not important to us ... it's just not important :)

OK on to some mattress talk ... cause that really important! (laughing)

There's a place on Fort st http://www.goodplanet.com/ and they have a couple of what look like Sueno and Greensleep. They are all very nice mattresses and are also well worth laying on as the Sueno's especially are easy to duplicate and both are good quality.

Sleep country also carries the Zenbody by sealy. One of them is all latex (core and top with no poly believe it or not) and one of them is latex over poly. Also great testing grounds. We are lucky because in the States they are called the Embody and they don't have the all latex version.

http://www.thompsonsfoamshopsltdbc.ca/ says they have latex mattresses and maybe they would let you play around with layers.

http://www.sandysfurniture.ca/furniture/mattresses/ may have some latex in either the Simmons natural care line or the Serta Pure response or Vera wang line. I wouldn't buy any of these of course since they would both have too much poly but I sure would use them to test out preferences if they carry them.

These guys say they carry evereden latex mattresses but they look a lot like a home business that might just take orders rather than have them is stock. In another part of their site under new products they have some more but they are using the video from habitat furnishings in the US so if that's the one's they carry they will be expensive. Still, maybe more latex to play on and gather specs for your perfect mattress.

There's a whole bunch more mattress stores but I don't know if any of them carry any latex so I'd probably phone before I went to visit any of them.

Phoenix