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WireCo WorldGroup

American corporation

WireCo WorldGroup (formerly Wire Rope Corporation of America) is a privately owned company that claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of wire rope.3 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1931Founded1
  • IndustryMiscellaneous Fabricated Metal Products1
  • HeadquartersMission Hills1
  • Legal formDelaware corporation1
  • Business address2400 West 75Th Street, Prairie Village, Ks 662085
  • Filer categoryNon-accelerated filer5
  • LEI5493008NQ1Q5T2GZOJ374
  • StatusActive4
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)4
  • Registered addressC/O THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY, 19801 Wilmington, United States4
  • Registered withDivision of Corporations, Department of State, 36421074

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WireCo WorldGroup (formerly Wire Rope Corporation of America) is a privately owned company that claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of wire rope.3

Corporate structure

WireCo WorldGroup sits at the top of its group. 2 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • WireCo WorldGroup Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
    • CASAR Subsidiary · Kirkel

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What WireCo WorldGroup reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Property and equipment

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Property and equipment, before depreciation$480.3M8 Dec 31, 2015$500.9M8 Dec 31, 2014−4.1%
Accumulated depreciation$196.7M8 Dec 31, 2015$181.7M8 Dec 31, 2014+8.2%
Property and equipment, net$283.7M8 Dec 31, 2015$319.2M8 Dec 31, 2014−11.1%

Investments

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Cash and cash equivalents$21.1M8 Dec 31, 2015$58.2M8 Dec 31, 2014−63.8%

Intangibles and goodwill

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Goodwill$181.7M8 Dec 31, 2015$188.9M8 Dec 31, 2014−3.8%
Intangible assets, net (excluding goodwill)$102.8M8 Dec 31, 2015$125.6M8 Dec 31, 2014−18.2%
Finite-lived intangibles, gross$141.1M8 Dec 31, 2015$153.6M8 Dec 31, 2014−8.1%
Accumulated amortization$107.2M8 Dec 31, 2015$104.5M8 Dec 31, 2014+2.7%
Finite-lived intangibles, net$33.8M8 Dec 31, 2015$49.1M8 Dec 31, 2014−31.1%

Inventory

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Inventory, total$187.0M8 Dec 31, 2015$225.1M8 Dec 31, 2014−16.9%
Raw materials$64.8M8 Dec 31, 2015$86.7M8 Dec 31, 2014−25.2%
Work in process$9.5M8 Dec 31, 2015$10.5M8 Dec 31, 2014−9.1%
Finished goods$112.6M8 Dec 31, 2015$127.9M8 Dec 31, 2014−12.0%

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

J.P. Barclay Sr. founded the company in 1931 as a spin-off of the New Haven, Connecticut-based Wire Machinery Corporation of America. In 1950 it moved its headquarters to St. Joseph, Missouri where its main operations had been since 1948.

It acquired the wire rope division of A.H. Leschen & Sons of St. Louis, Missouri in 1962; the Armco Steel wire rope division in 1988; the Rochester Corporation wire rope division in 1998; the Broderick Bascom Rope Company and MacWhyte Wire Rope Company of Wisconsin in 1999; the Aceros Camesa in Mexico in 2005; entered into a joint agreement with Wuhan Iron and Steel in China in 2006; Wireline Works of Canada in 2007; CASAR in 2007 and Phillystran in 2009.

In 2002 the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. KPS Special Situations acquired the company for $53 million in assumed debt and $1.5 million in cash.

Fox Paine & Company bought the company in 2007 Later that year the company moved its headquarters to the former Farmland Industries headquarters on the site of the Red Crown Tourist Court by Kansas City International Airport. The company was renamed Wireco Worldgroup in October 2007 and ownership was transferred to Paine & Partners. In the summer of 2015, the company moved its headquarters to Prairie Village, Kansas. The company sold a majority stake to a Toronto-based private equity fund, Onex Corporation in June 2016. In January 2020, the company appointed Keith White as chief executive officer.

From Wikipedia’s article on WireCo WorldGroup, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.6

Subsidiaries and ownership

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1931Founded Founded1

SEC filer profile

How WireCo WorldGroup is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARWireCo WorldGroup Inc.2
  • CIK0001522182
  • Employer ID (EIN)27-00613022
  • Filer statusNon-accelerated filer2
  • Fiscal year endsDecember 312
  • Industry code (SIC)3490 Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Products2
  • Business address2400 West 75Th Street, Prairie Village, KS 662082
  • Phone816-270-47002
  • Shares outstanding100 as of Aug 8, 20169
  • Public float$0 as of Dec 31, 20158
  • On EDGAR sinceJun 15, 20112
  • Filings90 in all: 8-K (48), 10-Q (14), UPLOAD (7), 10-K (5), S-4/A (4), SD (3), CORRESP (2), 10-K/A (1)2
    All 14 form types

    15-15D (1), 424B3 (1), 8-K/A (1), EFFECT (1), S-1/A (1), S-4 (1)

  • Latest filingsAnnual report (10-K) Mar 10, 2016
    Quarterly report (10-Q) Aug 11, 2016
    Latest 8-K (8-K) Aug 11, 2016

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