Doyle steps down from sleep products trade organization
- August 20, 2009 |
- Mark Graham
In the midst of member defection and board resignations, including the chairman, the International Sleep Products Association announced that President and CEO Dick Doyle has resigned. Doyles resignation is the latest fallout following the controversy surrounding member company Tempur-Pedics patent infringement lawsuit against more than a dozen other bedding manufacturers that included other ISPA members and even some headed by board members. In late July, bedding manufacturers Englander, Anatomic Global and Carpenter Co. dropped their ISPA memberships and Kevin Toman, president of Englander, resigned from the ISPA board in protest of Tempur-Pedic President Rick… Read More