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Sarah Harris

Head of Design & Development

Working at Bensons

How long have you worked at/with Bensons for?

16 Years

Why Bensons?

I have designed mattresses for many retailers including Marks & Spencer & Next. It has been an exciting journey to work with the team at Bensons for beds over the years, and have the added support to put the customer first and develop products which offer maximum quality, affordable prices and to design mattresses for every body

Expertise

What do you specialise in?

My role in developing fantastic, award winning product for Bensons for beds starts with using quality materials. Looking for latest innovation in technologies, such as superbly comfortable filling layers, luxurious fabrics, and technical /natural solutions to everyday sleep issues such as ‘feeling hot during the night’ or ‘tossing & turning’. I have a particular interest in using materials which are organic, sustainable or planet friendly, helping to minimise the impact on the environment.

Industry experience

I started over 22 years ago as a buyer in a large department store in Worcester, a change from the Car rental industry in London, to selling beds! – I was soon cocooned in the comfortable world of mattresses. Moving to a career in Sales & Account management for some well-known mattress brands and designing collections for some of the largest bed retailers in the UK.

What Sarah’s colleagues have to say about her…

Pam JohnsonHead of Buying

Pam Johnson

Sarah has a wealth of experience, combined with a drive to bring the latest innovations and sleep solutions for customers, with a great eye for design. There are many successful collections as testimony to this and many more to come, which is very exciting

​What is 'Roll Together' on Mattresses and How to Avoid it
January 25, 2023-Sarah Harris

​What is 'Roll Together' on Mattresses and How to Avoid it

If you share a bed with somebody else, you may know this story too well: the night starts as any other night, and you fall asleep on your side of the bed. There’s plenty of room for both of you to stretch out, without touching the other person. And yet, by morning, both [...]
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8 Ways to Make Getting Out of Bed Easier
July 20, 2022-Sarah Harris

8 Ways to Make Getting Out of Bed Easier

Can’t get out of bed in the morning? We’ve been there. Maybe aches and pains are making getting up difficult. Or perhaps you’re struggling to find the mental motivation or the wish and willpower to get up and at ‘em. While some people spring out of bed effortlessly in the morning, ready to tackle the day head [...]
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What are Orthopaedic Mattresses Good for?
December 30, 2022-Sarah Harris

What are Orthopaedic Mattresses Good for?

A good orthopaedic mattress can help to care for your bones and joints, while giving you the comfort you’ll need to drift off to the land of nod without frustrating tossing and turning. But what is an orthopaedic mattress? And what makes it different to the many other mattresses that are out there? Is [...]
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What Is A Pocket Sprung Mattress?
December 14, 2022-Sarah Harris

What Is A Pocket Sprung Mattress?

Remember when a mattress was just a mattress? A bit of material and a basic filling layer wrapped around some springs? Thankfully, the world of mattresses has grown and grown in recent years as manufacturers realised the importance of mattresses and the need for different types to suit different needs .No longer is [...]
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What is an Open Coil Mattress?
October 19, 2022-Sarah Harris

What is an Open Coil Mattress?

Doubtless you’ll have slept on an open coil mattress at some point during your life. In fact, there’s a pretty good chance you snuggled down and slept on one just last night. How do we know? We’re not mind readers. We just happen to know that despite a whole crop of ground-breaking new mattress [...]
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The Benefits of Adult Single Beds
November 9, 2022-Sarah Harris

The Benefits of Adult Single Beds

While you may initially baulk at the idea of adult single beds, this option could actually have many surprising benefits - for you and your partner. In our 2022  Instagram poll on adult single beds and sleeping alone, only 13% of participants said they would consider a single bed as their main bed. But will your opinion change once [...]
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