UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 6, 2013

General Cable Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (859) 572-8000

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

As previously reported in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 9, 2013, on September 6, 2013, General Cable Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and certain of its U.S., Canadian and European subsidiaries amended the Company’s existing asset-based revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) and entered into the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “Amendment and Restatement”) by and among the Company’s principal U.S. operating subsidiary General Cable Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as “U.S. Borrower,” General Cable Company Ltd., a company organized under the laws of Nova Scotia, as “Canadian Borrower,” Grupo General Cable Sistemas, S.L., a public limited liability company (formerly Grupo General Cable Sistemas, S.A., in process of conversion) organized under the laws of Spain (“Sistemas”), ECN Cable Group, S.L., a limited liability company organized under the laws of Spain (“ECN”), Silec Cable SAS, a French société par actions simplifiée (“Silec”), Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) existing under the laws of Germany (“Norddeutsche” and collectively with Silec, the “European Borrowers”), the Company, Prestolite Wire LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Prestolite”), General Cable Canada Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Canada Holdings” and together with Prestolite, the “Additional Guarantors”), and those certain other subsidiaries of the Company party thereto as “Guarantors,” the several lenders and financial institutions party thereto as the “Lenders,” JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as “Administrative Agent,” and J.P. Morgan Europe Limited, as “European Administrative Agent.” Sistemas and ECN became European Borrowers and parties to the Amendment and Restatement by accession on September 9, 2013. Pursuant to the Amendment and Restatement, among other things, each Additional Guarantor has been added as a guarantor of all obligations under the Credit Facility.

Also on September 6, 2013, the Company, the Additional Guarantors, the other Guarantors (as defined therein) and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), entered into the following supplemental indentures (the “Supplemental Indentures”):

The Supplemental Indentures supplement the Indentures to add each Additional Guarantor as a guarantor of the Company’s obligations under the Indentures and the notes issued pursuant thereto.

The foregoing summary of the terms of the Supplemental Indentures is qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of the Supplemental Indentures, which are filed as Exhibits 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, respectively, to this report and incorporated herein by reference.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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