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| A family-owned business founded in 1978, Darn Tough Vermont was thriving until about five years ago. “Then outsourcing happened,” says Ric Cabot, who owns the company along with his father. “At the low point, maybe 2003 or 2004, we had pretty much defaulted on our loans to the bank,” Cabot says. “We’d be in meetings with the loan officers that would end with them backing out of the conference room saying, ‘Please, no more surprises.’ They expected us to declare Chapter 11 minutes after we drove out of the parking lot.” -- Ric Cabot |
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Darn Tough Vermont Northfield, Vermont
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Ric Cabot, President 
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Harvey Stabene Lead Textile Designer 
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“We’re the only sock company left in the Northeast; nobody does socks in Vermont,” Cabot says. “I sort of like that
challenge. One day I hope to look back on this and say, ‘I told you so. We did it.’”
As the maker and marketer of Darn Tough Vermont we are unique. In an era of outsourcing and corporate take overs, we are still true to our roots.
Family owned and run, in Vermont, since 1978. In a word, local. Our experience is our reputation and we back it up with our lifetime guarantee. If our All
Weather Performance Socks aren't the most comfortable and durable socks you've ever owned, return them for your money back."
As we like to say, "We know socks, we wear 'em year 'round."™
“People are proud of what they do, and at the end of the day they know they’ve produced something — they’ve taken an idea and made a product. It’s not a
service industry or a phone center. It’s making something tangible and they feel good about it, and so do I.” - Ric Cabot, President
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Over 30 years ago our family opened a mill and began making socks in Northfield, Vermont.
Frigid winters and humid summers taught us that all socks are not created equally. Living in the most unforgiving climate in the lower 48, our socks had to be tough and of course they certainly had to keep our feet dry and warm. Whether skiing, hiking, biking, climbing or running, our Darn Tough Vermont socks kept our feet oblivious to the elements.
Our team spent over a year testing yarn combinations and designs, confident that during this process we could create something unique; a sock that we could guarantee for life. And as a 3rd generation sock guy, I can tell you that what has kept my family in the sock business, in America, is the pursuit of quality.
To date, DARN TOUGH VERMONT, is the culmination of those efforts.
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Mark Comcowich, Director of Sales & Maketing "Nobody ever outsourced for quality." NECN story (Advertising mandatory by broadcaster)
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Ric Cabot, President Click photo for full article. |
In Stitches:
The only remaining sock manufacturer in Vermont is doing quite well.
Brown eyes may run in families, — or big feet, or straight teeth — but socks?
Socks do run in Ric Cabot’s family. He is proud of being the third generation in the sock business — and when he talks about Cabot Hosiery Mills Inc., he looks forward to a fourth generation in the business — even though his son, Benjamin, is just over 3 years old.
That’s the kind of vision and passion Cabot has for the Northfield business that he owns with his father, Marc, who started making socks in Vermont
in 1978. Marc was following in the footsteps of his father, who had been in the sock business in New Hampshire and North Carolina.
---- (October 2011 article in Busienss People Vermont)
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"Not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear
to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufacturers. Every nation ... ought to endeavor to possess within
itself all the essentials of a national supply. They comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing and
defense ... The expediency of encouraging manufactures in the United States, which was not long since deemed very
questionable, appears at this time to be pretty generally admitted."
-- Alexander Hamilton ... an American Made Hero! |
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