Add a touch of summer to your feet

Three of the most popular BLACKSOCKS styles are now available in this season's shade of raspberry. Bring a splash of colour to an otherwise grey office!

Zurich, 10th May 2012: Fresh, fruity and colourful - raspberries are what summer is all about. As of now, you can get summer on your feet thanks to BLACKSOCKS, inventors of the sockscription. Three of the most popular sock styles are now available in framboise or in other words raspberry. The clas...

BLACKSOCKS’ socks and underwear are more in demand than ever. Swiss e-commerce pioneer BLACKSOCKS enjoyed a good first quarter of 2012. Turnover increased by 13 percent.

Zurich, 10 April 2012: BLACKSOCKS, inventor of the original sockscription, continued to grow in the first three months of this year. Turnover was up 13 percent. Samy Liechti, founder and Managing Director of BLACKSOCKS, summarises the first quarter of 2012 as follows: "We had the best January of all time, the second best February and the best March." This is since the foundation of BLACKSOCKS in 1999. There are no signs of a crisis. "The only crisis we know of is that our ...

2011 was another good year for BLACKSOCKS, the inventor of the sockscription. As in previous years, a double-digit turnover growth was achieved. Visits to the web-site are also up by a third.

Zurich, 19 January 2012: BLACKSOCKS, the e-commerce pioneer and inventor of the sockscription, is continuing its success story and has once again secured a two-digit increase in turnover in 2011. Ten of the twelve months of last year were the best since the company started out in 1999. Visits to the website are also up by a third compared to 2010 and every tenth visitor to the BLACKSOCKS website now comes via a smartphone or iPad. In 2011, 5 percent of all sales came throu...

A representative survey shows that buying socks is such a chore it needs to be delegated. The Austrians are the European champions in this respect. And the British leave sock-buying to their mothers.

Zurich, 03 January 2012: Buying socks is a chore, it's a fact. For 10 percent of people, buying socks is such a tedious waste of time that they delegate the task. A representative international survey carried out by BLACKSOCKS, inventors of the sockscription, shows how this unpleasant task is dealt with in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Great Britain. The survey involved around 500 men and women in each country who made up a representative sample of their...

Urban Comfort is a sporty business sock with a soft terry sole. So it is good for your feet and also good for your conscience and the environment because it is made of fairtrade organic cotton.

Zurich, 1. November 2011: The new socks from BLACKSOCKS are good for your feet and your conscience. Made from the finest double yarn and with a soft terry sole, the new smooth Urban Comfort socks from BLACKSOCKS are comfortable to wear and good for your feet. Because the Urban Comfort is made from fairtrade organic cotton, the latest product from BLACKSOCKS is also easy on the conscience.

Sockscription inventor BLACKSOCKS is making it even easier for men who want t...

The third quarter 2011 was another success for BLACKSOCKS. The company achieved a double-digit sales growth in the foreign business.

Zurich, 25 October 2011: ”Nice weather is bad for our business”, says Samy Liechti, Managing Director of BLACKSOCKS, e-commerce pioneer and inventor of the sockscription. ”When the weather is nice, the demand for socks grows smaller. Switzerland was faced with the effects of these weather conditions in September”. Nonetheless, BLACKSOCKS recorded positive and gratifying growth during the third quarter 2011 as well, although growth in Switzerland was slightly more moderate ...