KENTUCKIANA WIRE ROPE & SUPPLY, INC.

Mel Fireovid got his start in the rigging industry in the early 1970s as a sales rep for the Crosby Group, where he met his future wife, Pat. In 1981 he set off to found Kentuckiana Wire Rope & Supply in Jeffersonville, Indiana. In those early years, Mel grew the business by making sales calls by day and fabricating slings at night. As new team members came on board, the business really took off. By 1989 Mel saw an opportunity to enter the Cincinnati market and opened Tri-State Wire Rope, where his son John often worked after school. The company continued to grow and in 2010 opened a location in Dayton to serve customers further north.