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Relyon is a British manufacturer of beds and mattresses in Wellington, in Somerset. [1] In 2009 it had 500 employees. [2]
The company was established in 1858 as Price Brothers and Co., [1] and was renamed to Relyon in 1935.[ citation needed ]
It was bought by Steinhoff International in 2001.[ citation needed ] It joined the Furniture Industry Sustainability Programme in 2013. [3] [4] In the same year it received a Furniture Industry Research Association certification of its beds they designed for commercial use. [5]
Steinhoff sold the company, together with Bensons for Beds and Harveys, in November 2019 to Alteri Investors, a British private equity group. [6]
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