Prysmian to acquire Encore for about $4.2 billion

Prysmian S.p.A. specializes in the design, manufacturing, marketing and installation of wires and cable systems. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - electrical wires and cable systems (74%): cables for distributing low, medium, and high voltages, special cables for industrial equipment, signaling cables, battery cables, etc.; - underground and submarine high-voltage power cables, submarine telecommunication cables, and offshore specialty cables (16.3%); - telecom wires and cable systems (9.7%): copper and fiber-optic cables, communication cables with metal conductors, components and cable systems for long-distance networks, etc. At the end of 2023, the group had 108 production sites worldwide. Net sales (excluding projects) are distributed geographically as follows: Europe/Middle East/Africa (47%), North America (35.5%), Latin America (9.6%) and Asia/Pacific (7.9%).