General Cable Powers, leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products for the energy, industrial, specialty and communications markets, is the new Fortune 500 company.
With $6.2 billion in annual revenues in 2008 – up 35 percent from 2007 – General Cable is the state’s fifth largest company in Kentucky. Two primary reasons for the company’s evolution are the adoption of a super-efficient management strategy and a broadening into a global company.
According to General Cable Chief Executive Officer Greg Kenny, “Our big decision was to get very good at a large business, and to have a philosophy of continuous improvement with our lean process and using Six Sigma as a tool to measure our improvement.”Â
