Tempur Sealy to Buy Mattress Firm for About $4 Billion

  • Deal combines mattress brands with 3,000 stores globally
  • Steinhoff has been shedding business units to pay down debt

A Mattress Firm store in San Francisco, California.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Tempur Sealy International Inc. agreed to buy Mattress Firm from Steinhoff International Holdings NV in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $4 billion.

The transaction will combine two well-known brands at a time when consumers are pulling back from pandemic-era splurges on home furnishings. The purchase will be funded by about $2.7 billion of cash and $1.3 billion in stock, the companies said in a statementBloomberg Terminal Tuesday.