Case Study: Mattress Firm achieves faster, more controlled SEC reporting with Merrill Corporation's Merrill Bridge

Mattress Firm gains control and unlocks productivity with Merrill Bridge

Mattress Firm, a $1.8 billion specialty mattress retailer, was growing rapidly through acquisitions and relied on a one-person financial reporting team to produce SEC filings. The group struggled with time-consuming manual processes—cutting and pasting between Word and Excel, disjointed email reviews, and separate EDGAR and XBRL workflows—which made timely, controlled preparation of 10‑Ks and 10‑Qs difficult.

Mattress Firm implemented Merrill Bridge with hands-on onboarding and ongoing support, which centralized document management and linked Excel, Word and accounting data. The result: fast, last-minute edits and in-app collaboration, rolling forward that dropped from a day to about 30 minutes, a reporting cycle shortened by days, improved reviewer communication, responsive Merrill support, and overall higher productivity that freed staff to focus on analysis and accounting trends.

Mattress Firm

Jeffrey Albus

Manager of Financial Reporting