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Trussell would have sold Tempur-Pedic to Sealy in early 2000s
“All those years back in the early, I mean, late nineties and early 2000, I was expecting to get a call from an industry player like Sealy. Guy Raz: To say, hey, we want to buy you out or something. Bobby Trussell: Yeah. And we would have said, Okay.”
Krim: Oligopolistic Control and Legacy Brands Protected High Mattress Margins
“For the last several decades, it's been a very tightly controlled industry, and when things are an oligopoly or a duopoly or a monopoly, that's when you're able to really protect pricing, protect margins, and you see it in other industries. You see it in the r…”
Tempur-Pedic acquired rival Sealy in 2012 at a $2.5B market cap
“By the way, in 2012, Tempur-Pedic acquired its longtime rival, Sealy, making it one of the biggest bedding providers in the world. A company with a market cap of two and a half billion dollars.”
Raz: Tempur-Pedic acquired rival Sealy in 2012 to become largest bedding provider
“By the way, back in 2012, Tempur-Pedic acquired its longtime rival, Sealy Mattresses, making it the biggest bedding provider in the world.”
Madison: Stacy's bought and converted a 200k+ sq ft Sealy mattress factory
“We had moved to the Sealy mattress factory, where we bought the building, and it was two or 300,000 square feet, something like that. It was basically four acres inside. And we converted the Sealy mattress factory into a giant pita chip factory.”