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Sense of Identity
A culture where every stakeholder — customer, teammate, supplier, neighbor — sees themselves connected to who we were, who we are, and who we're becoming.
Our Mission · Core Values
A sock company, made of values.
We aspire to be the industry's first brand in sustainable design — a company that values and preserves the natural surroundings, and earns the trust of every customer, employee, shareholder, and neighbor we serve.
Our Mission
We aspire to be the industry's first brand in sustainable design, a company that values and preserves the natural surroundings.
Our customers, employees, shareholders, and communities deserve our trust — and we earn it through meaningful contributions, every day, in every pair we ship.
Six Principles
The values we knit into every pair.
Six principles guide how we run the mill, source the yarn, and treat the people inside and outside our walls.
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Empathy
Recognizing and understanding the wants, needs, and perspectives of others — and responding to them with care, not assumption.
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Social Justice & Equity
A commitment to equal access — to goods, to services, to economic fairness, to legal rights, and to a seat at the table when decisions get made.
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Value & Respect for Diversity
Welcoming diverse experiences and backgrounds — and finding culturally sensitive common ground that makes the company stronger than any one viewpoint.
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Sustainable Development
We use 70% post-consumer recycled plastics across our entire product line — aligned with global sustainability goals and a relentless focus on waste reduction.
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Creativity
Teams that pursue breakthrough ideas and innovative solutions — because the only Double Layer sock didn't come from playing it safe.
Sustainable by Default
70% post-consumer recycled plastics.
Across our entire product line. Not a capsule collection, not a marketing line — every pair of Wrightsocks. We measure waste, we cut it, and we publish how.
- Recycled fibers across the full catalog
- Aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Production waste minimized at the mill
- Made in Burlington, NC — short supply chain
70%
Post-Consumer Recycled Plastics
100%
Of Our Catalog, Not a Sub-Line
75+
Years of Refining How We Build
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Mill, One Family, One Promise
Who We Serve
Four stakeholders. One promise.
Trust isn't a marketing word. It's a contract with the four groups who make this company possible.
Customers
The reason we open the floor every morning. We earn their trust one pair at a time — and we'll make it right if a sock ever lets them down.
Employees
The people on the knitting machines, the packers, the designers. We pay fairly, we listen, and we keep the work in Burlington — on purpose.
Shareholders
Mostly family — and they expect us to run the business for the long term, not the next quarter. We take that mandate seriously.
Communities
Burlington and the towns next door. We hire here, we source here, and we show up for the schools, teams, and neighbors who built us.
No one performs their best with blisters. Every decision starts there — and ends with the sock that goes in the box.
The Wrightenberry FamilyOwners · Burlington, NC
In Practice
How we put values to work.
Values that don't change anything are just words. Here's how ours show up on the floor and in the box.
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We measure recycled content — and publish it.
70% post-consumer recycled plastics across the full catalog isn't a tagline. It's a number we audit, every product cycle, every mill run.
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We hire and source close to home.
Burlington, NC. Same county we started in. Short supply chain, fair wages, neighbors on the team — that's how the values become economics.
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We back every sock — full stop.
If a Wrightsock blisters you, we make it right. The 100% Blister-Free Guarantee is the simplest expression of empathy we know how to write down.
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We invest in the next generation.
Fourth-generation Wrightenberrys are already on the floor. Sense of identity isn't a slide deck — it's the same family signing the boxes for 75+ years.
Values · Knit In
Wear the values. Try a pair.
Sustainable, family-made, and backed by our 100% Blister-Free Guarantee. Free shipping on orders $50+.
