Sealy Corp.

Sealy Corp.

Sealy Corporation, headquartered in Trinity, North Carolina, is the world’s largest manufacturer of bedding products with sales of $1.2 billion in 2003. The Company manufactures and markets a broad range of mattresses under the Sealy®, Sealy Posturepedic®, Stearns & Foster®, and Bassett® brands. The Company was acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), based in New York and one of the world’s leading private equity firms, for approximately $1.5 billion from Bain Capital, also a leading private equity firm based in New York. As a special advisor to KKR, Mann, Armistead & Epperson, Ltd. provided industry related information critical to the acquisition process. Our firm also provided similar advisory services to Bain in 1999 during their acquisition of Sealy.


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