But that entrepreneurial success story — the novelty-sock maker FBF Originals — might not be a secret much longer. The 110-employee company has new private equity ownership, an expanded ...

FBF Originals is the longest-tenured sock licensee of the National Football League. It is also licensed to sell branded socks for hundreds of colleges, the National Hockey League, NASCAR ...

For more than 15 years, the official sock of the NBA was made by a company called FBF, which produced white socks and black socks with the NBA logo on them, and more recently has had success ...

The production room is full of enough navy blue and orange thread to churn out thousands of pairs of custom socks. FBF Originals President Kelly Baugh says workers were on stand-by Sunday night.