Sealy Corporation (Sealy) and its subsidiaries are engaged in the consumer products business and manufacture, distribute and sell conventional bedding products, including mattresses and box springs, as well as specialty bedding products, which include latex and visco-elastic mattresses. The Company's products are manufactured in a number of countries in North and South America. The Company also licenses its brands in domestic and international markets and receives royalty income from these arrangements. Its conventional (innerspring) bedding products are manufactured and marketed in the Americas under the Sealy, Sealy Posturepedic, Stearns & Foster and Bassett brand names. In addition, the Company manufactures and markets specialty (non-innerspring) latex and visco-elastic bedding products under the Embody, Stearns & Foster, and Carrington Chase brand names, which it sells in the United States and internationally.