The Right Fit: Sock-maker in Mount Airy is flourishing in industry and area where most have fled

MOUNT AIRY (Winston-Salem Journal) - The knitting machines at Nester Hosiery run three shifts a day, turning out thousands of high-end socks that sell in outdoor-gear stores for as much as $17 a pair.

In a town filled with idle sock factories, Nester is bucking a national trend. Where other sock companies have moved out of Mount Airy, lured by cheap labor off-shore, Nester is expanding.

This year alone, the company hired 30 workers - many of them laid off by other sock plants that shut down this year.