wiredinUSA July 2018

Rich Stinson

City expansion

Southwire plans to open a fourth facility in Villa Rica, Georgia. The new distribution center will employ 60 workers, bringing the total employees in the city to 380. Southwire’s president and CEO, Rich Stinson, said: “We can’t make enough product for what is going on in the utility space, industrial space, commercial construction space and residential [sectors] today. “We should employ more than 500 people in the Villa Rica area within the next year to two years.”

According to company information, Southwire did $5 billion in business in 2017 and expects to exceed $7.5 billion by 2022. That growth, Stinson said, will be partially fueled by the company’s continued expansion into new economic sectors that touch on its core wire and cable manufacturing. The company is expanding into new product lines and moving into other specialized sectors that reflect a shift toward alternative and ecologically friendly sources of energy.

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