Is Purple mattress made in Utah? Where each Purple is built

In McDonough, Georgia, 27 miles south of Atlanta. Purple held a grand opening there on August 4, 2021, for what it called its newest manufacturing facility. Purple's latest annual report puts the site at 844,000 square feet of manufacturing and distribution space. That is where Purple molds the gel grid, which the company calls Hyper-Elastic Polymer, for its mattresses. The pillows and seat cushions use the same polymer, made in the same building.

Georgia shared the work with Utah until 2024. That August Purple told investors it would close both Utah factories and consolidate mattress production in Georgia by the end of that year. It expected the move to shrink its net workforce by about 13 percent and to save $15 million to $20 million a year starting in 2025. The Georgia consolidation was finished in December 2024, and the two Utah plants were closed in May 2025, according to Purple's quarterly report for the period ending June 30, 2026.

Some of what Purple sells never passes through its own plant. The annual report says Purple buys adjustable and platform bases, sheets, mattress protectors, blankets and duvets from other companies and resells them. It does not name the countries those come from, so the label on the box is the place to look.

The headquarters never left. Purple's main office is at 4100 North Chapel Ridge Road in Lehi, in Utah County, and it runs a 61,000 square foot innovation center in Draper.

The Salt Lake City building is the part that blurs the answer. Purple's annual report describes it as a 198,000 square foot distribution facility that assembles products and ships them, alongside McDonough. So a Purple mattress can be put together and boxed in Salt Lake City. The grid inside it was molded in Georgia.

We don't count that as made in Utah. Our rule is that the product has to be manufactured here, and putting together parts molded in another state doesn't meet it. Purple fits our founded in Utah and headquartered in Utah definitions instead.

If you want to lie on one before you buy, Manufacturing Dive⁵ reported in 2024 that Purple's four Utah showrooms would stay open after the factories closed. The company ran 55 showrooms across the country at the end of 2025.

Yes, for about 15 years. Tony and Terry Pearce were civil engineers who quit their jobs in the late 1980s, Tony in aerospace and Terry in consulting, to work on materials technology. They designed and built a super-lightweight carbon-fiber wheelchair, and the people who used it told them the thing they needed most was a cushion that kept them from getting pressure sores. That cushion material became the grid. Long before it went into a bed, the Deseret News reported, JanSport put it in backpack shoulder straps and Nike used it to make outdoor boots more comfortable.

The brothers decided in 2010 to start manufacturing for themselves, and Purple's 2017 annual report gives 2010 as the company's founding year, with headquarters in Alpine. The Purple brand launched in January 2016, and a year later it needed a much bigger building.

Grantsville came next. TechCrunch⁷ toured the plant in April 2017 and reported that it covered 574,000 square feet, "the size of a combined eight Walmarts," in a town of 9,617 people. The Deseret News described the machine at the center of it, the Mattress Max, as "a truck-size apparatus that is essentially nine of the seat cushion machines conjoined." It made the top layer of every mattress. That spring Purple ran two of them around the clock, six days a week. The company had grown from a little over 30 employees at launch to 655. The paper noted that Purple was still working to fill the place.

In 2022 Purple bought Intellibed. The annual report says that deal left Purple with the sole right to use all of its Hyper-Elastic Polymer technologies.

Purple Innovation is a public company that trades on Nasdaq as PRPL, and Robert DeMartini is its chief executive. Coliseum Capital Management owned 46.9 million Purple shares as of May 2025, plus warrants for 14.2 million more, and it holds 64.6 percent of the company's debt. Coliseum has appointed or nominated five of Purple's directors, including the chairman, Adam Gray.

On March 13, 2025, Purple's board said it had started a review of strategic alternatives after receiving inbound expressions of interest, and it formed a special committee of independent directors to run it. The company's report for the quarter ending June 30, 2026, says it is still evaluating its options and names no buyer. In July 2026 stockholders approved a reverse stock split, and the board set it at one new share for every 25 old ones.

None of that changes where the mattresses come from. For other bedding from Utah companies, Malouf started in a two-bedroom apartment in Logan and is still run from there, and the rest are under home and furniture. Wherever the grid gets molded from here, it began as a cushion for people who spend their days in a wheelchair.