Exhibit 99.1

                             NEWS RELEASE

CONTACT:        Paul M. Montgomery                      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                Director of Finance and                 September 3, 2004
                Investor Relations
                (859) 572-8684


     General Cable Reaches Agreement with Bonham, Texas Union Workers

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KENTUCKY, September 3, 2004 - General Cable Corporation
(NYSE:BGC) announced today that it has reached a one-year agreement with Local
Union No. 2155, of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
The Local Union, which represents 187 production and maintenance workers at the
Company's Bonham, Texas plant, voted to ratify the agreement earlier today. The
union members, who have not reported to work since their vote to strike on
August 29th, will return to work on Tuesday, September 7th.

"We are pleased that an agreement could be reached quickly," said Jim Barney,
Senior Vice President and General Manager of General Cable's Communications
business. "We are eager to get our Bonham associates back to work early next
week so that we can continue to service our customers with excellence."

General Cable, headquartered in Highland Heights, Kentucky, is a leader in the
development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper, aluminum
and fiber optic wire and cable products for the energy, industrial, specialty
and communications markets. The Company offers competitive strengths in such
areas as breadth of product line, brand recognition, distribution and logistics,
sales and service and operating efficiency. Energy cables include low-, medium-
and high-voltage power distribution and power transmission products. The
Industrial and Specialty segment is comprised of application-specific cables for
uses such as electrical power generation (traditional fuels, alternative and
renewable sources, and distributed generation), the oil, gas and petrochemical
industries, mining, industrial automation, marine, military and aerospace
applications, power applications in the telecommunications industry, and other
key industrial segments. Communications wire and cable products transmit
low-voltage signals for voice, data, video and control applications. Visit our
website at www.GeneralCable.com.

Certain statements in this press release, including without limitation,
statements regarding future financial results and performance, plans and
objectives, capital expenditures and the Company's or management's beliefs,
expectations or opinions, are forward-looking statements. Actual results may
differ materially from those statements as a result of factors, risks and
uncertainties over which the Company has no control. Such factors include
economic and political consequences resulting from the September 2001 terrorist
attack and the war with Iraq, domestic and local country price competition,
particularly in certain segments of the power cable market and other competitive
pressures; general economic conditions, particularly in construction; changes in
customer or distributor purchasing patterns in our business segments; the
Company's ability to increase manufacturing capacity and productivity; the
financial impact of any future plant closures; the Company's ability to
successfully complete and integrate acquisitions and divestitures; the Company's
ability to negotiate extensions of labor agreements on acceptable terms; the
Company's ability to service debt requirements and maintain adequate domestic
and international credit facilities and credit lines; the Company's ability to
pay dividends on its preferred stock; the impact of unexpected future judgments
or settlements of claims and litigation; the Company's ability to achieve target
returns on investments in its defined benefit plans; the Company's ability to
avoid limitations on utilization of net losses for income tax purposes; the cost
of raw materials, including copper and aluminum; the Company's ability to
increase its selling prices during periods of increasing raw material costs; the
impact of foreign currency fluctuations; the impact of technological changes;
and other factors which are discussed in the Company's Report on Form 10-K filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 12, 2004, as well as
periodic reports filed with the Commission.

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Release No. 0447
09/03/04