Back in 1984 when production began under the name of Arab Cables, it was Egypt's first private-sector cable producer and has since built up a key position in its sector both within the Middle East and the African region. The group comprises an increasing number of factories in five different countries, including Egypt (7 factories), Syria (2 factories), Sudan (2 factories), Ghana (1 factory), and Saudi Arabia (1 factory).
El Sewedy Group strives to offer technical excellence, professional and proactive service, and the best quality products. It ensures the utmost effectiveness and efficiency in every aspect of each company's activities in order to satisfy its customers' needs and competently achieve its objectives. It also takes into account the codependence of customer satisfaction, health, safety, environmental considerations, and business aims. El Sewedy manufactures an extensive range of assorted products, which are classified under three main sectors: Wire and Cables, Electrical Products, and Turnkey Projects. The Wire and Cables sector represents the largest segment of the group with 93% of total revenues, and includes the manufacturing of power cables, special cables and winding wires. It also produces raw materials such as copper, plastic and propylene, as well as filler and galvanised steel wire, the latter which is still under construction. The copper and plastic products are the main components for the production of wire and cables, andaccordingly, around 54% of the group’s production of copper and 
plastics is consumed by the group’s companies. The Electrical Products sector represents 2% of the group’s revenues and specialises in manufacturing cable accessories such as modular terminators, power cable joints, transformers, substations, as well as fibreglass poles. These products' operating plants are located in Egypt, Sudan, Ghana and Syria. The Turnkey Projects sector represents 5% of the group’s revenues, which have aggressively grown from 78 million Egyptian pounds in 2005 to 102 million Egyptian pounds in the first half of 2006, with a current backlog of 585 million Egyptian pounds of which 186 million will be delivered in the second half of 2006. It offers clients a one-stop solution whereupon El Sewedy Group undertakes the supplying, planning, designing and contracting of large projects related to their cables business in order to meet their customers' needs. The Group's turnover has steadily been rising during the past few years. It went from 1.52 billion Egyptian pounds in 2003 to 2.32 billion in 2004, reflecting an increase of 34.8%, after which it went up by 26.7% to 3.12 billion Egyptian pounds in 2005. Although the company began as an Egyptian local manufacturer, it has branched out regionally to Sudan in 2002, Syria and Ghana in 2005, and Saudi Arabia in 2006. Today, El Sewedy's vision for the future is to become, within the next five years, one of the five major organisations in the field of cable industries worldwide