HJ Hall, High quality hosiery since 1882

The first HJ Hall
factory at Stoke
Golding

The Past...

At the age of 28, John Hall, a foreman for a hosiery manufacturer in Hinckley, asked his bank for a £1200 overdraft to build the first HJ Hall factory in the small Leicestershire village of Stoke Golding. From his meagre wage of £2 a week, he managed to save £500, a substantial sum in 1882. This was doubled by his wife, Sarah Hall, who raised a mortgage on their house, which she owned.

From a small firm employing just 16 people and with a monthly turnover of £32 4s 4d, HJ Hall has grown to become the largest independent UK sock manufacturer today.

Now, more than 126 years on, the business has seen 4 generations of the Hall family (click here to view the HJ Hall Family tree) at the helm continuing its successful growth by following the philosophy set out by "Honest" John Hall from the start.

The HJ Hall story begins with John Hall or "Honest John" as he was known by his friends, hence the company name HJ Hall.

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