General Cable
| General Cable Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US3693001089 |
| founding | 1927 |
| Seat | Highland Heights, United States
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| management | Michael T. McDonnell ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 13,000 |
| sales | 5,980,000,000 US dollars |
| Branch | electric wire |
| Website | www.generalcable.com |
| Status: 2014 | |
General Cable is a cable manufacturer based in Highland Heights, Kentucky . The company is the fifth largest cable manufacturer in the world by sales and goes back to the merger of 10 predecessors, including the Phillips Wire and Safety Cable Company , the Rome Wire Company and Standard Underground Cable in New Jersey in 1927. The chairman of the board is Gregory B. Kenny.
history
General Cable also owns the Carol , BICC and Anaconda brands . In 2007 General Cable took over the Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke (NSW) and, for $ 735 million, the cable division of Phelps Dodge . Phelps Dodge's raw materials division went to Freeport-McMoRan . In December 2017, the acquisition of General Cables by the Prysmian Group , the world's largest cable manufacturer, was announced. This was worth three billion US dollars and was completed on June 6, 2018. As a result of this acquisition, General Cable ceased its listing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b General Cable Corporation , Form 10-K Report 2014, accessed June 28, 2015
- ↑ Brands
- ↑ Prysmian takes over General Cable , Prysmian press release, accessed on May 11, 2019