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Meet the Sydney mattress-maker selling $90,000 beds

Neville Middleton is a bloke who works in a mattress factory in Sydney’s southwest, yet his grey-bearded, bald-headed noggin appears on glowing billboards across multiple lux shopping centres in China: “From Australia – since 1899”.  Middleton, not quite that old, is the “sleepsmith” in charge of building AH Beard mattresses that sell for up to […]

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff
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