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About Leggett & Platt
Leggett & Platt is a diversified manufacturer that conceives, designs and produces a broad variety of engineered components and products for customers worldwide. While Leggett & Platt may not be a familiar name to you, chances are you sleep on a bed made with Leggett components - box spring, innerspring, fiber comfort layers; relax in a recliner that has an L&P motion mechanism powering it; shop in stores that have products displayed on shelving made by L&P - in short, Leggett products are all around you, making the products you use every day more comfortable, durable and life-enhancing.
Leggett & Platt History
J.P. Leggett and C.B. Platt were both residents of Carthage, a county seat in southwest Missouri, when they formed their business partnership in 1883.
J.P. Leggett was an inventor and had several patents to his credit. When he developed the idea for a spiral steel coil bedspring, he went to his future brother-in-law, C.B. Platt, for his manufacturing capability and expertise.
Together they produced the L&P bedspring, patented in 1885, which offered the best night's sleep yet available.
Their partnership prospered and the business was incorporated in 1901. The company has operated continuously since then, and began its fifth decade of public ownership in 2007.
The modern growth era for the company began in the 1960's, when an executive management team assumed leadership. Being substantially invested in Leggett stock, then and now, management developed a plan to enhance the potential for long-term growth. The strategy is a proven success, resulting in leading manufacturing, marketing and distribution capabilities.
Today, we are serving more customers, with more products and growth opportunities than ever before.
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Leggett & Platt Extends Helping Hand to Local Community
CARTHAGE, Mo., May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Leggett & Platt, Incorporated today pledged to donate $1 million toward tornado relief for the Joplin community. As one of the largest employers in the area, the Carthage-based company has many employees who sustained significant personal loss in the unprecedented storm that leveled a large section of neighboring Joplin, MO.
"We are grieving with our fellow partners who lost loved ones and homes in this horrific storm," said David Haffner, President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are still gathering information on the losses sustained by those employees who were in the path of the storm. At this point, we know of at least 35 families who lost everything, and we mourn the death of one employee partner."
According to Haffner, the company will direct the donation to local agencies to benefit Joplin residents.
"Leggett & Platt has been a part of this community for more than 128 years," Haffner said. "Our roots include multi-generation employees, customers, and business colleagues. We want to help."
The company immediately offered assistance to local storm shelters, and employees are volunteering in numerous relief efforts.
"We have encouraged our employees to help in whatever way they can," said Karl Glassman, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. "In every department and plant, Leggett people have rallied to support their colleagues. Just like other area companies, we are experiencing an outpouring of generosity from every corner of the company as our employees take good care of each other."
Leggett & Platt is a publicly traded (NYSE: LEG) company that manufactures components and products that can be found in most homes, offices, and automobiles. The company serves a broad suite of customers that comprise a "Who's Who" of U.S. manufacturers and retailers. From its beginnings in 1883 with the invention of the coil bed spring, the company has grown to 19,000 employee-partners in 140 manufacturing facilities located in 18 countries.
For additional information, contact Robert McKinzie in the company's Human Resources Department at 417-358-8131.
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