General Electric Information Brief

General Electric Company (GE) is the world's largest diversified services company, dedicated to creating better lives through a wide range of technologies and services, from aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, and from medical imaging to television programming to plastics. GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide. Mr. Jeff Immelt has served as chairman and chief executive officer of GE since September 7, 2001, succeeding Jack Welch.

General Electric traces its history back to Thomas Edison, who founded the Edison Electric Light Company in 1878, and the merger of the Edison Electric Light Company and the Thompson-Houston Electric Company in 1892 to form General Electric (GE), the only company to remain on the Dow Jones Industrial Average since its inception in 1896.

Seven engines of growth generate 85% of profits, Consumer Finance Group, Business Finance Group, Energy Group, Healthcare Group, Infrastructure Group, NBCUniversal, and Transportation Group; and four cash-growth sites continue to generate cash flow and earnings in a growing economy: High-Tech Materials Group, Consumer & Industrial Products Group, Equipment Services Group, and Insurance Group.

General Electric Company is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. This company has more mature technology in electrical products and a wide range of products. In addition to producing consumer appliances and industrial electrical equipment, it is also a huge arms contractor, manufacturing space aviation instruments, jet aircraft pilot navigation systems, multi-target ballistic missile systems, radar and space flight systems. The world-famous Atlas and Thor rockets, which can carry atomic and hydrogen warheads, are produced by this company.

Companies: GE Capital, GE Aviation Financial Services, GE Commercial Finance, GE Energy Financial Services, GE Financial Services, GE Funds, GE Technology Facilities, GE Aviation, GE Enterprise Solutions, GE Healthcare, GE Transportation, GE Energy Facilities, GE Water, GE Oil & Gas, GE Energy, GE Consumer & Industrial, GE Equipment, GE Lighting, GE Power Distribution

GE's brand slogan is "imagination at work.