Hickory Springs Manufacturing 401(k) and pension plans

Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company, Hickory, NC. EIN 56-0494395. Annual reports 2009–2024. Also filed as Hickory Springs Manufacturing Co.; Hickory Springs Manufacturing Co.

Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company has 2 active retirement plans on file. The largest is the Hickory Springs Employees 401(k) Plan, with 2,164 participants and $75.1 million in assets in 2024. Fidelity has been its recordkeeper since 2015.

Active plans: 2
Participants: 3,164
Plan assets: $137 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Fidelity
Plans on file: 3
Industry: Manufacturing

All 3 plans

Active plans first

Hickory Springs Employees 401(k) Plan

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 003Employer EIN 56-0494395
Participants (2024): 2,164
Net assets (2024): $75.1 million
Recordkeeper: FidelityEarlier: Merrill (2012–2014)
Plan administrator: Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company
235 Second Ave., NW
Hickory, NC 28603
(828) 328-2201As filed for 2024
In effect since: January 1, 2009

Plans merged into this one: Hickory Springs Investment Savings Plan (2015).

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	2,164	$75.1 million	Fidelity
2023	2,324	$70.6 million	Fidelity
2022	2,813	$63.6 million	Fidelity
2021	3,002	$80.5 million	Fidelity
2020	2,632	$63.1 million	Fidelity
2019	2,406	$62.0 million	Fidelity
2018	2,679	$55.2 million	Fidelity
2017	2,750	$56.0 million	Fidelity
2016	2,535	$48.7 million	Fidelity
2015	1,178	$53.9 million	Fidelity
2014	746	$1.8 million	Merrill
2013	595	$948,447	Merrill
2012	481	$279,478	Merrill
2011	343	$102,320	not listed
2010	155	$2,854	not listed
2009	1	$684	not listed

Hickory Springs Retirement Plan

Pension (defined benefit), frozenActive

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 56-0494395
Participants (2024): 1,000
Net assets (2024): $61.6 million
Administered by: Trust Company of TennesseeEarlier: Wells Fargo (2014–2018)
Plan administrator: Retirement Committee Hickory Springs Manufacturing Co.
P.O. Box 128
Hickory, NC 28603
(828) 328-2201As filed for 2024
In effect since: September 1, 1970

Earlier plan names: Hickory Springs Employees 401(k) Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	1,000	$61.6 million	Trust Company of Tennessee
2023	992	$60.9 million	Trust Company of Tennessee
2022	2,533	$127 million	Trust Company of Tennessee
2021	2,582	$167 million	Trust Company of Tennessee
2020	2,642	$179 million	Trust Company of Tennessee
2019	2,674	$172 million	Trust Company of Tennessee
2018	2,700	$159 million	Wells Fargo
2017	2,755	$179 million	Wells Fargo
2016	2,850	$176 million	Wells Fargo
2015	3,731	$180 million	Wells Fargo
2014	3,781	$161 million	Wells Fargo
2013	3,833	$157 million	not listed
2012	3,908	$155 million	not listed
2011	4,664	$150 million	not listed
2010	155	$2,854	not listed
2009	4,918	$139 million	not listed

Hickory Springs Investment Savings Plan

401(k)Merged

Merged. In 2015 its assets moved to the Hickory Springs Employees 401(k) Plan, sponsored by Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company (EIN 56-0494395, plan 003). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 002Employer EIN 56-0494395
Participants (2014): 2,350
Net assets (2014): $57.2 million
Recordkeeper: FidelityEarlier: Merrill (2009–2014)
Plan administrator: Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company
235 2ND Avenue NW
Hickory, NC 28601
(828) 328-2201As filed for 2015
In effect since: May 1, 1984

Year by year, 2009 to 2015

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2015	0	$0	Fidelity
2014	2,350	$57.2 million	Merrill
2013	2,531	$55.5 million	Merrill
2012	2,616	$49.3 million	Merrill
2011	2,705	$48.3 million	Merrill
2010	2,811	$50.4 million	Merrill
2009	3,009	$49.6 million	Merrill

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Fidelity (fidelity.com), which runs the Hickory Springs Employees 401(k) Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((828) 328-2201). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that one.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.