Extended Life Plus Enjoy all the healthy support your body needs with our longest ever warranty period of 15 years when bought as a divan set. View Products Grand Luxury Luxurious natural collection. The last word in natural luxury. Blends naturally soft supportive fillings with exceptionally high pocket spring counts of up to 4000 springs. View Products Pocket Sprung Traditional handmade back support. It is hard to surpass the comfortable independent response of handmade pocket sprung mattresses.That's why you will find King Koil pocket sprung beds in more 5 star hotels than any Irish bed brand. View Products Spinal Care Firmer feels for back care lovers. Backed by the International Chiropractors Association, this collection is designed for those who value back care above all else. Also the choice for those who like a firmer feel. The last word in natural luxury. Blends naturally soft supportive fillings with exceptionally high pocket spring counts of up to 4000 springs. Traditional handmade back support.
It is hard to surpass the comfortable independent response of handmade pocket sprung mattresses.That's why you will find King Koil pocket sprung beds in more 5 star hotels than any Irish bed brand. Firmer feels for back care lovers. Backed by the International Chiropractors Association, this collection is designed for those who value back care above all else. Also the choice for those who like a firmer feel. Supersized long life King Koil beds. King Koil's latest collection is designed to last even longer. With a 15 year warranty and a host of life extending features, including turnable tops. This range will provide long years of great sleep. Warranty King Koil beds are designed to provide years of comfortable back support. King Koil products carry a 10 or 15 Year warranty, depending on the collection. Quick Compare Choose the model that suits your needs best in our quick compare chart. Enter your nearest county/postcode King Koil is the leading supplier of beds to Ireland’s 4 and 5 star hotels because of our proven track record in providing people with a great night’s sleep.
King Koil supports the activities of the Barretstown Camp for children. We help the kids to get a good night’s sleep by giving the centre free beds and pillows. King Koil has been made in Ireland under license since 1982. Now part of the Kaymed group, King Koil beds are produced in Kilcullen, County Kildare. We use International Chiropractor Association research and development to help us design beds that safeguard against back ache and muscle strain caused by improper sleeping alignment and poor back support. King Koil promises you comfortable back care. With a blend of great fillings (all of which are manufactured in house) and spring systems for comfort and support and with Chiropractor approved design features for healthy back and spine care.Leading mattress brand renowned for their innovative & unique spring systemsKing Koil has over a century's expertise at the forefront of mattress and sleep technology. King Koil are not only... Product Name: A to Z Product Name: Z to A
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Double (4 ft 6) Mattress - Gel Indulgence Super King Size (6 ft) Mattress - Sapphire King Size (5 ft) Mattress - Sapphire King Size (5 ft) Mattress - Back Care Superb Back support mattress, rebond foam cushioning Established over 100 years in the United States King Koil, has been putting its know-how & insight in to the production of mattresses to perfect the art of a great night sleep. Following on from the opening of their manufacturing site in Kilcullen County Kildare in 1982, Michael Murphy’s Home Furnishings has been proud to offer an extensive range of King Koil mattresses with divan and headboard options to match. World renowned for producing the highest and best quality finishes, their mattresses are used by some of Ireland’s top hotels and hotel chains. They are the only manufacturer to be endorsed by the international chiropractor’s association (ICA).Always innovating and researching new technologies to help improve sleep and sleep patterns while not forgetting the fundamentals which made them great .
King Koil offer the traditional Back Guard mattress with its reassuring back care support or the plush Shelley with high pocket count and deep layer of soothing pressure relieving visco elastic open cell memory foam. Originally made for the most demanding of consumers of the North American market .The complete range of mattresses come with a 10 year warranty as an assurance and testament to their quality and the manufacturing techniques of King koil. So you the customer will spend many a night in absolute comfort, knowing you are sleeping on a premium product made to the highest of standards with a mattress that will last many a year .Available in all sizes from 3 ft. to 6ft and zip & link in certain models if access to your bedroom is restricted. King Koil Make a great addition to Michael Murphy Home Furnishing bedroom collection together with Odearest ,Respa &Kaymed complete a fantastic range of mattresses ,divan & headboards all available to see online or in your local store.We have convinced ourselves that Ireland can no longer compete in traditional manufacturing.
Our clothes, shoes and furniture factories have shut down, sacrificial lambs to the slaughter of globalisation. The received wisdom is that while we may excel in the lab-type production needed by the pharmaceutical and computer industries, in traditional, labour-intensive sectors we haven’t a hope. Magee of Donegal now has its tweed suits sewn in Morocco. And most sliotars are made in Pakistan. Despite everything, one plucky industry is managing to beaver away in the heart of Ireland: bed manufacturing. Go into any homeware shop and amidst the swathe of imported goods there will be a little bastion of Guaranteed Irishness in the bedding section, with companies such as Respa, Briody and Odearest all producing arguably better beds than their foreign competitors. How can this be? And, what, if anything, can we learn from it? I turn towards the golden triangle of bedding on the Meath-Cavan border, a stretch of drumlin-rolling greenness between the Neolithic passage tombs of Loughcrew, Co Meath, and Lough Sheelin, Co Cavan.
I’m expecting to see factories as bulky and sprawling as the mattresses themselves, but I find only patchwork fields knitted by tiny lanes. I show the list of factories I plan to visit to a farmer who comes upon me, lost, down a track: Briody Beds in Ballymacad, Pocket Spring in Ballinarink and Spring Air in Ballinacree. He looks at me strangely. “They’re all the one place. Ballymacad, Ballinarink and Ballinacree are different names for the same place. There’s just one company.” He must be wrong. You can’t have a thriving hub of just one company. Yet, when I track down David Briody of Briody Beds, he tells me they are indeed the same. It’s just that retailers like to have a range of different names on the same beds. So there’s no thriving hub? Briody says there is, and points up the road to Oldcastle, where Respa and Kelletts have been making beds for 70 years (although they too are a single company). How has the bedding industry survived? “Because mattresses are bulky,” says Briody, whose parents, Benny and Bríd, founded Briody Beds in 1974.
This is not the revelation I am after. I point out that there are other bulky items that can no longer be made competitively in Ireland: furniture, garden ornaments and cars. “But mattresses are very bulky,” he insists, “and there are so many different types: open coil, pocket sprung, latex, memory foam, and all with various fillers and fabrics. And all these come in different sizes: 3ft, 4ft 6in, 5ft . . . That’s before we even start on the divans: high or low? With drawers or not? How is the retailer meant to know which to stock? And even if he guesses right, where is he going to store them all? I pose the same question to James Hayes of Natural Sleep. “It’s a bulky product,” he says. “A retailer could order a container of cheap, low-quality beds from Turkey or China, but he’d have to order 400 different ones to have the full range. Whereas with us, he just needs to make a call and we’ll make what he wants within five days.” Hayes started making beds in 1984 with just one sewing machine.
Now his company produces 700 pieces a week, many of them own-brand labels for big retailers. The factory is in Limerick, a county that had its own bedding hot spot in the past, after the O’Dea family in 1893 established what would become Odearest. That company is now in Kilcullen, Co Kildare, where KingKoil, Kaymed and SleepSpa are also based. A new Golden Triangle of mattress manufacturing, perhaps? No, these are all part of the Kaymed Group, founded in Dublin in 1898 by Zorach Woolfson. I return to Meath to meet up with the largest bed manufacturer in Ireland, Kellletts, founded by Jack and Joan Kellett in 1947 and now run by their grandson Darren. Kelletts/Respa make 85,000 mattresses a year; that’s 1,800 a week, which surely must be enough to service the entire island. I ask Seán Browne, Kelletts’ financial operations director, how they manage to remain competitive, not only within Ireland but also producing 400,000 spring units for companies in Ireland and the UK.
“We’re not competitive,” he replies. “Not in spring manufacturing, anyway. A 3ft spring unit for a mattress costs 20 lira in Turkey. That converted to £8.80 in 2011; James Hayes from the Natural Sleep Company says something similar: “No bed manufacturer has made money since the recession. We are surviving, but only surviving. At times I said to myself: what are we doing this for?” Have they any advantage over foreign competitors? “Speed,” says Seán Browne of Kelletts. “It takes five or six weeks to get springs from Turkey and even longer from China, whereas we can take an order on Wednesday and have them made and delivered by Friday. So when there are spikes in the market, we top up orders for the big manufactures in Britain.” This isn’t quite the vision of bed-making colossuses bestriding the market; it seems more like wily foxes exploiting niches. But still, Kelletts manages an impressive feat: selling 400,000 spring units a year and keeping up to 190 people working in the heart of Oldcastle.