CULP INC

Culp is one of the largest marketers of mattress fabrics for bedding and upholstery fabrics for residential, commercial, and hospitality furniture and other applications in North America. The company markets a variety of fabrics to its global customer base of leading bedding and furniture companies, including fabrics produced at Culp's manufacturing facilities and fabrics sourced through other suppliers. The company competes in a business driven by fashion and product performance, and we strive to differentiate ourselves by placing a sustained focus on creativity and product innovation. In addition, we place great emphasis on providing excellent and dependable service to our customers as well as a supply chain that provides customers with sourcing optionality across a variety of jurisdictions. Our focused efforts to protect our financial strength and manufacturing flexibility have allowed us to maintain our position as a stable and trusted supplier of innovative fabrics to bedding and furniture manufacturers.

At the end of fiscal 2025, we initiated an integration effort involving the combination of our two operating divisions, Culp Upholstery Fabrics and Culp Home Fashions, into one unified business as described below in "—Fiscal 2026 Business Integration." However, for financial reporting purposes, our operations are classified into two operating segments— bedding and upholstery. The bedding business markets primarily knitted and woven fabrics, as well as sewn covers made from those fabrics, which are used in the production of bedding products, including mattresses, foundations, and mattress sets. The upholstery business markets a variety of fabric products that are used in the production of residential and commercial upholstered furniture, including sofas, recliners, chairs, loveseats, sectionals, sofa-beds, and seating for offices, healthcare facilities, and other institutional uses, as well as fabric products that are used in the production of upholstered furniture for the hospitality industry, including seating for restaurants, hotels, and theaters. The upholstery business also markets window treatment products and provides installation services for customers in the hospitality and commercial industries.

Culp markets a variety of fabrics and other products in different categories to a global customer base, including fabrics produced at our manufacturing facilities and fabrics produced by other suppliers. In fiscal 2026, we operated production and distribution facilities located in North Carolina, Shanghai, China, and Ouanaminthe, Haiti (on the Dominican Republic border), and we also operated a facility in Tennessee for a portion of the year before closing it in connection with the integration of our two operating divisions.

Culp also sources fabrics and cut and sewn kits from other manufacturers, located primarily in China, Vietnam, and Turkey. Substantially all of these products are created by Culp designers and made specifically for Culp. In connection with the Fiscal 2025 restructuring referenced below, we transitioned the internal weaving operations in our bedding business to a strategic sourcing model primarily utilizing one of our long-standing supply partners in Turkey.

In May 2024, Culp announced a restructuring plan (the “Fiscal 2025 restructuring”) that was effectively completed during our fiscal 2025 year (with the sale of our manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada, occurring on April 30, 2025, at the start of our first quarter of fiscal 2026). The Fiscal 2025 restructuring primarily focused on the consolidation of certain operations within our bedding segment. It included a phased wind-down and closure of our manufacturing plant in Quebec, Canada, the transition of a portion of that plant's knitting operations to our manufacturing facility in Stokesdale, North Carolina, and the transition of that plant's weaving operations to a strategic sourcing model. In addition, the company reduced its fixed cost structure through the consolidation of its sewn mattress cover operation in Haiti and rationalized its internal upholstery finishing operation in China to better align with demand and further leverage strategic supply relationships. See “—Fiscal 2025 Restructuring” below for further details regarding the restructuring.

During fiscal 2026, we completed the integration of our U.S. upholstery distribution and window treatment operations into our owned facility in Stokesdale, North Carolina, and reduced our facility footprint in China. See "—Fiscal 2026 Business Integration" below for further details regarding the integration of our two operating divisions into one unified Culp-branded business.

Additional information about trends and developments in each of our business segments is provided in the “Segments” discussion below, as well as in our “Management’s Discussion and Analysis” in Part II, Item 7 of this report.