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As an incoming analyst, this site will serve the purpose of introducing you to the various businesses that make up The General Electric Company. It will provide you with the essential background and current information related to each industry and business. In addition, this site will provide you with useful tools and resources, so that you will be able to continue enhancing your knowledge on your own.
Since its founding in 1892, GE has continued to grow and find its niches. Today, all of GE's businesses can be grouped into 5 distinct segments: Infrastructure, Industrial, GE Capital, Healthcare, and NBC Universal. Check out the Background page to see what makes up each of these segments.
To learn more about ongoing events at GE look over the recent events timeline, which highlights the important events for each business that have occured over the past few years. Then go to the current news articles page to see what issues have arisen during the last month. Lastly, be sure to look at each Weekly Review as these show the impact theses news stories have had on General Electric. Happy Exploring!
News entries (Show All)
These are the 5 most recent blog entries. The rest are on the News Entries page.
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| 07 Dec 2009 20:57 | GE News: GE's Most Advanced Wind Turbine Marks French Debut (by |
| French developers and energy producers Valorem SAS and BL Finance have officially opened a new wind farm on November 27, 2009 in the Picardy Region, north of Paris. This marks the first project in France to feature GE’s most advanced wind turbine technology. | |
| 07 Dec 2009 20:19 | GE News: Olympic countdown begins: 1,000 days to London 2012 (by |
| On Saturday, the race to the 2012 Olympic Games in London has officially begun with the 1,000-day countdown. With athletes and teams already preparing, so is GE. GE will help the competitors stay on track by supplying medical imaging equipment as well as keeping the games powered with Jenbacher engine technology. | |
| 07 Dec 2009 06:39 | GE News:The General Electric superfraud: Why the Hudson River will never run clean (by |
| While I could not read the full article, since I had to be a member of Harper Magazine, this article reiterates that not everyone has forgotten about GE's Hudson River Contamination disastor. | |
| 07 Dec 2009 04:16 | GE News: GE Makes It Official: NBC Will Go to Comcast (by |
| Tim Arango reported for the NYTimes that after almost nine months of negotiations, Comcast announced an agreement to acquire NBC Universal from GE. The joint venture deal has valued NBC Universal at about $30 million and GE will continue to own 49% of NBC while Comcast will own 51%. For now NBC Universal will maintain its name but Comcast will have the option to change it if its sees fit. | |
| 07 Dec 2009 03:30 | GE News: Is GE Having a Yard Sale? (by |
| In this article by Daniel Fisher, he critizes that while CEO Jeff Immelt once boasted about growth, he is now busily selling off divisions to raise cash and reduce debt. Hence what Forbes calls "the asset sales". Forbes believes that by raising cash, which is shrinking GE's balance sheet, that GE is hurting its reputation for buying smart and making earnings grow. | |
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