Hosiery and Sock Mills: Business Name Ideas

What this industry covers

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in knitting or knitting and finishing hosiery and socks.

Businesses classified here include

• Anklets, sheer hosiery or socks, knitting or knitting and finishing
• Athletic socks knitting or knitting and finishing
• Boys' socks manufacturing
• Calf high sheer hosiery knitting or knitting and finishing
• Children's socks manufacturing
• Crew socks knitting or knitting and finishing
• Footies, sheer, knitting or knitting and finishing
• Girls' hosiery, sheer, full-length and knee-length, knitting or knitting and finishing
• Girls' socks manufacturing
• Hosiery, sheer, women's, misses', and girls' full-length and knee-length, knitting or knitting and finishing
• Hosiery, women's, girls', and infants', manufacturing
• Leggings knitting or knitting and finishing
• Men's socks knitting or knitting and finishing
• Nylon hosiery, sheer, women's, misses', and girls' full-length and knee-length, knitting or knitting and finishing
• Nylons, sheer, women's, misses', and girls' full-length and knee-length, knitting or knitting and finishing
• Panty hose, women's and girls', knitting or knitting and finishing
• Slipper socks made in sock mills
• Socks knitting or knitting and finishing
• Socks, men's and boy's, manufacturing
• Socks, slipper, made in sock mills
• Stockings, sheer, manufacturing
• Stockings, sheer, women's, misses', and girls', full-length and knee-length, knitting or knitting and finishing
• Tights knitting or knitting and finishing

Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 315110), U.S. Census Bureau.

Name ideas for hosiery and sock mills

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Name words that fit, with their meanings

• Hosiery
• Sock
• Mill
• Works
• Forge
• Craft
• Made

U.S. business numbers

Locations by number of employees nationwide

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.

Top states for hosiery and sock mills

1. North Carolina 49 locations
2. Alabama 16 locations
3. California 5 locations
4. New York 4 locations
5. Pennsylvania 3 locations
6. Tennessee 3 locations

All 6 states

• Alabama (16)
• California (5)
• New York (4)
• North Carolina (49)
• Pennsylvania (3)
• Tennessee (3)

Related industries

• Other Apparel Knitting Mills