Iconic performance sock manufacturer Fox River® featured in series debut season
OSAGE, Iowa (Oct. 27, 2011) — Fox River, a leading U.S. manufacturer of outdoor, athletic, military and lifestyle performance socks since 1900 and maker of the famous Original Rockford Red Heel® Monkey Sock, is scheduled to appear on the new Travel Channel® series, ‘Made in America’.

Show host George Motz also produced the critically-acclaimed documentary ‘Hamburger America’, and is renowned as an Emmy award-winning freelance filmmaker and photographer. Motz and his crew have been touring the U.S. with the Travel Channel to explore factories that produce some of the most innovative products in the world and how these products are made.

The Travel Channel selected Fox River due to their long-standing history as America’s oldest sock brand and steadfast commitment to remaining made in America. The episode also demonstrates how Fox River helped to proliferate a beloved American icon with the Original Sock Monkey, made from the Original Rockford Red Heel® Monkey Sock by Fox River.

Fox River Mills has carried on the tradition of the sock monkey since 1992 after the originators of...