Southwire Co., Carrollton, Ga., announced a restructuring program that includes selling some businesses and exploring other alternatives, including downsizing,
Southwire Co., Carrollton, Ga., announced a restructuring program that includes selling some businesses and exploring other alternatives, including downsizing, to refocus its strategy on its core wire and cable businesses.
Southwire is looking at ways to strengthen the company to face the future in an increasingly competitive wire and cable industry. Southwire has put its copper refining and aluminum smelting operations up for sale. Southwire also has sold Integral Corp., Dallas, Texas, a producer of preassembled cable-in conduit.
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Doug has been reporting and writing on the electrical industry for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing since 1992 and still finds the industry’s evolution and the characters who inhabit its companies endlessly fascinating. That was true even before e-commerce, LED lighting and distributed generation began to disrupt so many of the electrical industry’s traditional practices.
Doug earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Kansas after spending a few years in KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism, then deciding he absolutely did not want to be a journalist. In the company of his wife, two kids, two dogs and two cats, he spends a lot of time in the garden and the kitchen – growing food, cooking, brewing beer – and helping to run the family coffee shop.