The Yellow Road is not only an outdoor road but leads indoors right to the office and the yellow door of the founder of DeFeet, Shane Cooper. This week was spent at headquarters in Hickory/Hildrebran North Carolina. Business is booming here and DeFeet continues to manufacture almost 100% in the United States. In an area that was once the hosiery and furniture manufacturing capital of America, but that has now lost so much of its industry to the overseas markets, their is tremendous pride at our factory knowing that we can continue to operate a thriving business right here at home and help keep jobs and industry in this country.
Jill Patton, VP of Manufacturing, has over 30 years of experience running a company in the hosiery business and we are fortunate enough that she came over to DeFeet a few years ago and has been critical in helping DeFeet prosper through tough economics times. Jill is also very politically connected locally and is on city council here in Hickory - we love that!
With our great team here, there are many more miles to travel on the Yellow Road.
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