Team photo at the recent May 15th, Kennedy Wire Rope & Sling Open House
KWRS facility before the 2012 fire.
After the fire, losing millions of dollars worth of inventory and equipment.
Photos courtesy of Kennedy Wire Rope & Sling.
building of another 24,000 square-foot building. After literally doubling its size, Kennedy expanded its product testing while at the same time growing both its synthetic sling fabrication and its chain sling departments. Near the end of 1998, Kennedy opened its first location outside of Corpus Christi. Te San Antonio office allowed the company to better serve its customers in central Texas while also giving them an improved foothold for building their client base in the region. In the process, it repositioned the company and expanded their market reach. “In the mid-90’s the company expanded in Corpus Christi.
Now we have five buildings out here – we just built it as we grew,” says Jonathan Cloutet, the financial manager at Kennedy Wire Rope & Sling. “In the mid 90’s, when KWRS decided to build a branch in San Antonio, really, the main drive was to serve the area better – the San Antonio office covers west Texas, north Texas and central Texas. Tis was about ten years before the big
WE DEFINITELY LEARNED A LOT ABOUT NOT ONLY OURSELVES BUT WHAT THIS COMPANY CAN HANDLE WHEN UNDER PRESSURE. - Jonathan Cloutet, Financial Manager at KWRS
boom in Eagle Ford shale. But, once that hit, our San Antonio facility was sitting right in the perfect spot. In the mid 2000’s we went ahead and expanded the San Antonio branch.” Te San Antonio office has been so successful that after
ten years of operation, the entire location had to be moved into a 25,000 square-foot space similar to the buildings at the headquarters in Corpus Christi. Just as in Kennedy’s previous expansions, the new space meant new opportunities for new products and services. Add to those the additional storage space afforded by the new building, and Kennedy’s central Texas clients had never been better served.
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