Sealy Corporation - X.SLY- Profile

Sealy Corporation. The Group's principal activities are to manufacture and sell a complete line of conventional bedding products including mattresses and foundations. Conventional bedding products of the Group include the SEALY(r), SEALY POSTUREPEDIC(r), SEALY POSTUREPEDIC CROWN JEWEL(r), STEARNS & FOSTER(r) and BASSETT(r). The customers are furniture stores, national mass merchandisers, specialty sleep shops, department stores, contract customers and other stores. The Group has three manufacturing facilities in Canada and one each in Puerto Rico, France, Italy, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil which comprise all of the Group-owned manufacturing operations. The Group also operates 18 bedding manufacturing facilities and three component manufacturing facilities in 17 states. The Group acquired the remaining 30% interest of Rozen in 2002.