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Tempur-Pedic International Inc.

Type	Public (NYSE: TPX)
Founded	1992
Headquarters	Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Industry	Mattresses and Pillows
Website	http://www.tempurpedic.com

Tempur-Pedic International, Inc. A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered securities ( Stock, bonds, etc The New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE) is a Stock exchange based in New York City. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Lexington (officially Lexington-Fayette Urban County is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 68th largest in the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" A mattress is a mat or pad usually placed atop a Bed, upon which to sleep or lie A pillow is a large Cushion support for the head, usually used while Sleeping in a Bed, or for the body as used on a Couch or A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages manufactures and distributes mattresses and pillows made from TEMPUR material.

TEMPUR material is a viscoelastic memory foam made from polyurethane. Memory foam is made from Polyurethane with additional chemicals that increase its Viscosity level thereby increasing its Density. A polyurethane, commonly abbreviated PU, is any Polymer consisting of a chain of organic units joined by urethane links

Tempur-Pedic was founded in 1964 by Dag Landvik, after he was introduced to the viscoelastic mattress concept while in Europe scouting race horses. Viscoelastic TEMPUR material was originally designed by NASA for use in space, but after NASA abandoned it, Fagerdala, a Swedish technical foam firm, picked up the idea and made it into a mattress. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program

Tempur-Pedic was originally a subsidiary of this company, Fagerdala World Foams. Now, Tempur-Pedic's office in Lexington, KY is the world headquarters, overseeing not only all U. S. sales, but also a number of distributors worldwide.

External links

Tempur-Pedic website

Major North American mattress manufacturers
Comfortaire - Dorel - King Koil - Restonic - Sealy - Select Comfort - Serta - Simmons - Spring Air - Tempur-Pedic - Therm-a-Rest - Leggett & Platt

A mattress is a mat or pad usually placed atop a Bed, upon which to sleep or lie Dorel Industries Inc ( and) is a Montreal Quebec -based company which designs and manufactures for three areas juvenile home furnishings and recreational/leisure King Koil is a United States -based brand of Mattresses and bedding with 60 factories in 40 countries operated by independent licensees. Restonic was founded in 1938 as the Triple Cushion Corporation and took the Restonic name in 1946 Sealy Corporation ( is a major Mattress Manufacturer. The company draws its name from the city where it started Sealy Texas. Select Comfort ( is a US-based manufacturer that bills itself as "the leading U Serta is a company that specializes in making Mattresses It was founded in 1931 by 13 mattress manufacturers who licensed the Serta name and now eight independent Simmons Bedding Company is a major manufacturer of Mattresses and related bedding products Spring Air Company is a Mattress company based in the United States. Therm-a-Rest is a trademarked name for a line of self-inflating Camping Mattresses They were invented in the early 1970s by two former Boeing engineers Leggett & Platt (L&P ( is a Fortune 500 diversified Manufacturer that conceives designs and produces a broad variety of engineered components and products that

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