Started in a garage.
Built by a family.
In the spring of 2020, the world stopped. A husband, a wife, and their three young kids set up a folding table in their suburban garage and started hand-packing little boxes of socks for neighbors, nurses, and friends down the street. Five years later, those same socks ship around the world — and it's still a family business. This is the American dream, one pair at a time.
The Sullivan family — spring 2020. The day it all started.
From garage table to global brand.
- 2020
The garage years
During the pandemic lockdown, John and Mary Sullivan start hand-packing little novelty sock boxes for neighbors, nurses, and friends. The kids — Ellie, Sam, and Jake — handle the labels at the kitchen table.
- 2021
First retail order
A small gift shop in Cleveland orders 200 boxes. The whole family pulls an all-nighter folding. They sell out in 9 days.
- 2022
We get a real building
We move out of the garage and into a 4,000 sq ft warehouse outside Akron. We hire our first 6 employees — three of them are still with us today.
- 2024
Our own factory
We open our first sock manufacturing facility in North Carolina. Every pair is now knit, finished, and packed under one American roof.
- 2025
Shipping around the world
Now shipping to 38 countries with over 200 employees. Still founder-owned. Still family-run. Still folding the first box of every new design by hand.
"We didn't set out to build an empire. We just wanted to make something our kids could be proud of. Five years later, we still fold the first box of every new design by hand — together, at the same kitchen table."
Knit, packed, and shipped from North Carolina.
Every pair of Socks in a Box socks is knit on American machines, by American workers, in our own facility. We pay above-market wages, run on clean power, and treat every employee like family — because most of them are.
- 100% knit, finished and packed in the USA
- Living wages and full benefits for every team member
- Family-owned and founder-led since day one
- Now shipping to 38 countries worldwide
200+ proud Americans behind every box.
From the knitting floor to customer support, every Socks in a Box order passes through real hands. We hope you can feel it when you open one.
We're hiring across the company.
Engineers, designers, warehouse coordinators, marketers, and folks who just love socks. If you want your work to ship joy twice — once to a customer, once to a kid — come build with us.
- Real ownership
- Family benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Free socks for life
- Made in the USA
- Founder-led
Be part of the next chapter.
Every box you give helps us keep this family business growing — and puts a fresh pair of socks on a child's feet across Africa.