General Cable Corp. produces cable for customers in the communications and electric utility industries, government, the military and more. Its roots date to a company founded by George Westinghouse during the 19th century. The company or its predecessors supplied the wire used in Samuel Morse’s first telegraphic transmission between Washington and Baltimore in 1844; linked electricity generated at the Hoover Dam to customers in Los Angeles in 1935; built a 140-mile-long tube used to transport diesel fuel from Britain to Normandy, France, in support of the D-Day invasion; and supplied fiber optics for the International Space Station. Its products help light the Statue of Liberty.
More than 11,000 employees work in 47 manufacturing locations in 25 countries. Revenues of $4.86 billion secured General Cable the No. 465 position on the Fortune 500. It is headquartered in the Cincinnati suburb of Highland Heights, Ky.
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