Leggett & Platt designs and engineers components and products for bedding, seating, furniture, flooring, automotive and aerospace markets, with around 18,000 employees in 17 countries.
Leggett & Platt is a diversified global manufacturer that designs and engineers components and products for bedding, seating, furniture, flooring, textiles, automotive and aerospace markets. The company employs approximately 18,000 people, operates through 15 business units and runs 135 production facilities across 17 countries.
The business traces its origins to 1883, when J.P. Leggett invented the spiral steel coil bedspring in a borrowed space at a plow factory. That founding product remains a reference point for a company that has since broadened well beyond bedsprings into adjustable beds, automotive seating systems, hydraulic cylinders, aerospace components, specialised foam technology, flooring products and furniture components. Much of this work is done in support roles: engineered parts and systems that sit behind the finished goods consumers use.
Technical work at the company spans spring and coil engineering, engineered components, specialised foam technology, hydraulic cylinder systems, automotive seating systems, aerospace components, flooring and textile products, adjustable bed mechanisms, and product design and engineering. Operating scale is global, with facilities and staff located across 17 countries.
The company describes its purpose as helping people lead more comfortable lives, a mission it has carried since its founding. Once known as "The Components People", it has repositioned itself as a broader engineered products company, with a continuing emphasis on design and engineering. Further information is available at leggett.com.
