Furniture seller Bestar has agreed to pay $4 million of a $16 million penalty for not reporting that its wall beds had a defect that killed someone, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Monday.

A wall bed is supposed to provide a place to sleep, not a trip to the hospital or morgue. That’s why Bestar recalled 129,000 wall beds in the United States on Thursday and 53,000 in the company’s home ...

Roughly 129,000 Bestar wall beds sold online by retailers including Amazon, Costco and Wayfair are being recalled after one fell on an elderly woman, killing her, the company and the U.S. Consumer ...

LAC MEGANTIC, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - Nov 10, 2014) - Bestar Inc. ("Bestar") (CSE:BES) is pleased to announce that it has concluded a merger agreement today for the privatization of Bestar (the "Merger ...

QUEBEC, Canada — Canadian bed manufacturer Bestar on Thursday recalled about 129,000 wall beds sold in the United States because the beds can detach from the wall, posing “serious” impact and crushing ...

Canada's Bestar has agreed to a more than $16 million civil penalty for failing to report a defect in its wall beds until after one person was killed and more than a dozen others injured, some ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is announcing that Bestar Inc., of Canada, has agreed to a $16.025 million civil penalty. The settlement, ...

Bestar, which is backed by Canadian private equity firm Novacap, has acquired Jamestown, New York-based Bush Industries, a maker of case goods and RTA furniture for the office and home. No financial ...