Hugh R. Gaither

Flagship Brands LLC designs and markets socks. It markets products through specialty running stores throughout the U.S. The firm's products include high thread count, compression, coolfeet ventilation system and the perfect toe. The company was founded by Hugh R. Gaither in 2002 and is headquartered in Conover, NC.

Bank of Granite Corp. operates as a bank holding company. The company provides financial solutions to individual and institutional clients. These solutions include individual, group and short-term insurance, personal financial services such as estate planning, trusts, wills, personal loans, health management, savings and linked products, business fitness assessment and insurance investment management, asset management, property asset management, stock broking, employee benefits, risk management and capital market activities. The company's banking activities include the taking of demand and time deposits and the making of loans, secured and unsecured, to individuals, associations, partnerships and corporations. The firm's portfolio segments include commercial and industrial; real estate construction; real estate commercial mortgage and consumer. Bank of Granite was founded on June 1, 1987 and is headquartered in Granite Falls, NC.

Ridgeview, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets a complete range of sports, rugged outdoor and heavyweight casual socks as well as a wide variety of women's hosiery products, including tights, trouser socks, pantyhose and knee-highs. The company is one of the leading vendors of sports socks to sporting goods and active apparel stores. The company also sells its products to department stores, discount stores and a variety of other retailers. It also produces sports socks for sale by others under such widely-recognized brand names as adidas, ASICS, Bass, Brooks, Fila, Head Sportswear, IZOD, New Balance & Reebok. The company produces and sells socks and women's hosiery directly to retailers under the brand names Coleman, Ellen Tracy, Evan-Picone, Rockport and Woolrich. The company estimates that approximately two-thirds of its net sales in the current fiscal year will be derived from sales of socks with the balance derived from sales of women's hosiery products.

Broyhill Investments, Inc. provides hospital and physicians services. The company is headquartered in Lenoir, NC.