General Electric

General Electric (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York[5] and
General Electric Company
headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] As of 2016, the company operates through the following segments:
Aviation, Current, Digital, Energy Connections, Global Research, Healthcare, Lighting, Oil and Gas, Power,
Renewable Energy, Transportation, and Capital which cater to the needs of Financial services, Medical
devices, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Software Development and Engineering industries.[6]

In 2017, GE ranked among the Fortune 500 as the thirteenth-largest firm in the U.S. by gross revenue,.[7] In
2011, GE ranked as the 14th most profitable.[8] As of 2012, the company was listed the fourth-largest in the
world among the Forbes Global 2000, further metrics being taken into account.[9] The Nobel Prize has twice
been awarded to employees of General Electric: Irving Langmuir in 1932 and Ivar Giaever in 1973.[10]
Type Public
On January 13, 2016, it was announced that GE will be moving its corporate headquarters from Fairfield, Traded as NYSE: GE (https://
Connecticut (where it had been since 1974) to the South Boston Waterfront neighborhood of Boston, www.nyse.com/quo
Massachusetts. The first group of workers arrived in the summer of 2016, and the full move will be completed te/XNYS:GE)
by 2018.[11][12][13] DJIA Component
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Contents ISIN US3696041033
History Industry Conglomerate
Formation
Public company Founded April 15, 1892
RCA and NBC Schenectady, New
Television York, U.S.[1]
Power generation Founders Thomas Edison
Computing Charles A. Coffin
Acquisitions and divestments Elihu Thomson
Stock
Edwin J. Houston
J.P. Morgan
Corporate affairs
CEO Headquarters Boston,
Corporate recognition and rankings Massachusetts,
U.S.[2][3]
Businesses
Area served Worldwide
Controversies and criticism
Key people John L. Flannery
Environmental record
Pollution (Chairman)
Pollution of the Hudson River Products Aircraft engines
Pollution of the Housatonic River Electrical
Environmental initiatives distribution
Educational initiatives
Electric motors
Energy
Marketing initiatives
Finance
2011–2013 content-marketing campaigns
Gas
Sponsorships
Health care
Legal issues Lighting
Political affiliation Locomotives
Notable appearances in media Oil
Software
See also
Water
References
Weapons
Further reading Wind turbines
External links Revenue US$122.09
billion (2017)[4]
Operating US$-8.79 billion
History income (2017)[4]
Net income US$-5.78 billion
Formation (2017)[4]
Total assets US$377.9 billion
During 1889, Thomas Edison had business interests in many
(2017)[4]
electricity-related companies; including Edison Lamp Company, a
lamp manufacturer in East Newark, New Jersey; Edison Machine Total equity US$64.30 billion
(2017)[4]
Works, a manufacturer of dynamos and large electric motors in
Schenectady, New York; Bergmann & Company, a manufacturer of Number of 295,000 (2016)
employees
electric lighting fixtures, sockets, and other electric lighting
Subsidiaries GE Aviation
devices; and Edison Electric Light Company, the patent-holding
GE Capital
General Electric in Schenectady, company and the financial arm backed by J.P. Morgan and the
GE Digital
NY, aerial view, 1896 Vanderbilt family for Edison's lighting experiments.[15]
GE Global
Research
In 1889, Drexel, Morgan & Co., a company founded by J.P. Morgan
GE Healthcare
and Anthony J. Drexel, financed Edison's research and helped
GE Lighting
merge those companies under one corporation to form Edison
Baker Hughes, a
General Electric Company which was incorporated in New York on GE company
April 24, 1889. The new company also acquired Sprague Electric (62.5%)
Railway & Motor Company in the same year.[16][17] GE Power
GE Renewable
In 1880, Gerald Waldo Hart formed the American Electric Energy
Company of New Britain, Connecticut, which merged, a few years GE Transportation
Plan of Schenectady plant, 1896[14] later with Thomson-Houston Electric Company, led by Charles Current, powered
Coffin, In 1887, Hart left to become superintendent of the Edison by GE
Electric Company of Kansas City, Missouri.[18] General Electric was Website www.ge.com (http://
formed through the 1892 merger of Edison General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York, and www.ge.com)
Thomson-Houston Electric Company of Lynn, Massachusetts, with the support of Drexel, Morgan & Co.[17]
Both plants continue to operate under the GE banner to this day.[19] The company was incorporated in New York, with
the Schenectady plant used as headquarters for many years thereafter. Around the same time, General Electric's
Canadian counterpart, Canadian General Electric, was formed.[20]

Public company
In 1896, General Electric was one of the original 12 companies listed on the newly formed Dow Jones Industrial
Average.[21] After 121 years, it is the only original company that remains listed on the Dow index, however, it didn't
continuously keep its place on the index.[22]

In 1911, General Electric absorbed the National Electric Lamp Association (NELA) into its lighting business. GE
established its lighting division headquarters at Nela Park in East Cleveland, Ohio. The company's headquarters
General Electric Building at
remain the same since then.[23] 570 Lexington Avenue,
New York

RCA and NBC

Owen D. Young, through GE, founded the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in 1919, after purchasing the
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. He aimed to expand international radio communications. GE
used RCA as its retail arm for radio sales.[24] In 1926, RCA co-founded the National Broadcasting Company (NBC),
which built two radio broadcasting networks. In 1930, General Electric was charged with antitrust violations and
decided to divest itself of RCA.[25]

Television
In 1927, Ernst Alexanderson of GE made the first demonstration of his television broadcasts[26] at his General
Electric Realty Plot home at 1132 Adams Rd, Schenectady, NY. On January 13, 1928, he made what was said to be
the first broadcast to the public in the United States[26] on GE's W2XAD: the pictures were picked up on 1.5 square
inch (9.7 square centimeter) screens in the homes of four GE executives. The sound was broadcast on GE's WGY
(AM). Carmen Miranda in a 1945
advertisement for a General
Experimental television station W2XAD evolved into station WRGB which—along with WGY and WGFM (now
Electric FM radio in The
WRVE)—was owned and operated by General Electric until 1983.[27] Saturday Evening Post
Power generation
Led by Sanford Alexander Moss, GE' moved into the new field of aircraft turbosuperchargers.GE introduced the first superchargers during World War I,
and continued to develop them during the Interwar period. Superchargers became indispensable in the years immediately prior to World War II. GE
supplied 300,000 turbo superchargers for use in fighter and bomber engines. This work lead the U.S. Army Air Corps' to select GE to develop the nation's
first jet engine during the war.[28] This experience, in turn, made GE a natural selection to develop the Whittle W.1 jet engine that was demonstrated in
the United States in 1941.[29] GE ranked ninth among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts.[30] Although their early
work with Whittle's designs was later handed to Allison Engine Company, GE Aviation emerged as one of the world's largest engine manufacturers,
bypassing the British company, Rolls-Royce plc.

Some consumers boycotted GE light bulbs, refrigerators and other products in the 1980s and 1990s to protest GE's role in nuclear weapons
production.[31]

In 2002, GE acquired the windpower assets of Enron during its bankruptcy proceedings.[32] Enron Wind was the only surviving U.S. manufacturer of
large wind turbines at the time, and GE increased engineering and supplies for the Wind Division and doubled the annual sales to $1.2 billion in 2003.[33]
It acquired ScanWind in 2009.[34][35]

Computing
GE was one of the eight major computer companies of the 1960s along with IBM, Burroughs, NCR, Control Data Corporation, Honeywell, RCA and
UNIVAC.[36] GE had a line of general purpose and special purpose computers. Among them were the GE 200, GE 400, and GE 600 series general purpose
computers,[36] the GE 4010, GE 4020, and GE 4060 real-time process control computers, the DATANET-30 and Datanet 355 message switching
computers (DATANET-30 and 355 were also used as front end processors for GE mainframe computers). A Datanet 500 computer was designed, but
never sold.[37]

In 1962, GE started developing its GECOS (later renamed GCOS) operating system, originally for batch processing, but later extended to timesharing and
transaction processing. Versions of GCOS are still in use today. From 1964 to 1969, GE and Bell Laboratories (which soon dropped out) joined with MIT
to develop the Multics operating system on the GE 645 mainframe computer. The project took longer than expected and was not a major commercial
success, but it demonstrated concepts such as single level store, dynamic linking, hierarchical file system, and ring-oriented security. Active development
of Multics continued until 1985.

GE got into computer manufacturing because in the 1950s they were the largest user of computers outside the United States federal government,[36] aside
from being the first business in the world to own a computer. Its major appliance manufacturing plant "Appliance Park" was the first non-governmental
site to host one.[38] However, in 1970, GE sold its computer division to Honeywell, exiting the computer manufacturing industry,[36] though it retained its
timesharing operations for some years afterwards. GE was a major provider of computer timesharing services, through General Electric Information
Services (GEIS, now GXS), offering online computing services that included GEnie. In 2000 when United Technologies Corp. planned to buy Honeywell,
GE made a counter-offer that was approved by Honeywell.[39] On July 3, 2001, the European Union issued a statement that "prohibit the proposed
acquisition by General Electric Co. of Honeywell Inc.".[40] The reasons given were it "would create or strengthen dominant positions on several markets
and that the remedies proposed by GE were insufficient to resolve the competition concerns resulting from the proposed acquisition of Honeywell."[40]

On June 27, 2014, GE partnered with collaborative design company Quirky to announce its connected LED bulb called Link. The Link bulb is designed to
communicate with smartphones and tablets using a mobile app called Wink.[41]

Acquisitions and divestments

In 1986, GE reacquired RCA, primarily for the NBC television network (also parent of Telemundo Communications Group). The remainder was sold to
various companies, including Bertelsmann (Bertelsmann acquired RCA Records) and Thomson SA which traces its roots to Thomson-Houston, one of the
original components of GE. Also in 1986, Kidder, Peabody & Co., a U.S.-based securities firm, was sold to GE and following heavy losses was sold to
PaineWebber in 1994.[42]

In 2002, Francisco Partners and Norwest Venture Partners acquired a division of GE called GE Information Systems (GEIS). The new company, named
GXS, is based in Gaithersburg, Maryland. GXS is a provider of B2B e-Commerce solutions. GE maintains a minority stake in GXS. Also in 2002, GE Wind
Energy was formed when GE bought the wind turbine manufacturing assets of Enron Wind after the Enron scandals.[33][43][32]

In 2004, GE bought 80% of Universal Pictures from Vivendi. Vivendi bought 20% of NBC forming the company NBCUniversal. GE then owned 80% of
NBC Universal and Vivendi owned 20%. By January 28, 2011 GE owned 49% and Comcast 51%. On March 19, 2013, Comcast bought GE's shares in
NBCU for $16.7 billion.[44] In 2004, GE completed the spin-off of most of its mortgage and life insurance assets into an independent company, Genworth
Financial, based in Richmond, Virginia.[45]
Genpact formerly known as GE Capital International Services (GECIS) was established by GE in late 1997 as its captive India-based BPO. GE sold 60%
stake in Genpact to General Atlantic and Oak Hill Capital Partners in 2005 and hived off Genpact into an independent business. GE is still a major client
to Genpact getting its services in customer service, finance, information technology and analytics.

In May 2007, GE acquired Smiths Aerospace for $4.8 billion.[46] In 2007, GE Oil & Gas acquired Vetco Gray for $1.9 billion,[47][48] followed by the
acquisition of Hydril Pressure & Control in 2008 for $1.12 billion.[49][50]

GE Plastics was sold in 2008 to SABIC (Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation). In May 2008, GE announced it was exploring options for divesting
the bulk of its consumer and industrial business.

On December 3, 2009, it was announced that NBCUniversal will become a joint venture between GE and cable television operator Comcast. The cable
giant will hold a controlling interest in the company, while GE retains a 49% stake and will buy out shares owned by Vivendi.[51]

Vivendi will sell its 20% stake in NBCUniversal to GE for US$5.8 billion. Vivendi will sell 7.66% of NBCUniversal to GE for US$2 billion if the
GE/Comcast deal is not completed by September 2010 and then sell the remaining 12.34% stake of NBCUniversal to GE for US$3.8 billion when the deal
is completed or to the public via an IPO if the deal is not completed.[52][53]

On March 1, 2010, General Electric (GE) announced that the company is planning to sell its 20.85% stake in Turkey-based Garanti Bank.[54] In August
2010, GE Healthcare signed a strategic partnership to bring cardiovascular Computed Tomography (CT) technology from start-up Arineta Ltd. of Israel to
the hospital market.[55] In October 2010, General Electric acquired gas engines manufacture Dresser Inc. for a $3 billion deal and also bought a
$1.6 billion portfolio of retail credit cards from Citigroup Inc.[56][57] On October 14, 2010, GE announced the acquisition of data migration & SCADA
simulation specialists Opal Software.[58] In December 2010, for the second time this year (after Dresser acquisition), General Electric Co. bought the oil
sector company British Wellstream Holding Plc. an oil pipe maker for 800 million pounds ($1.3 billion).[59]

In March 2011, GE announced it has completed the acquisition of privately held Lineage Power Holdings, Inc., from The Gores Group, LLC.[60] In April
2011, GE announced it had completed its purchase of John Wood Plc's Well Support Division for $2.8 billion. This acquisition expands the extensive
drilling and surface manufacturing and services portfolio of GE Oil and Gas, a division of GE Energy.[61]

GE Capital sold its $2 billion Mexican assets to Santander for $162 million and exit the business in Mexico. Santander will additionally assume the
portfolio debts of GE Capital in the country. The transaction was finished in 2011. GE Capital will focus in the core business and will shed its non-core
assets.[62]

In June 2012, CEO and President of GE said that the company would invest ₹3 billion to accelerate its businesses in Karnataka.[63] In October 2012,
General Electric Company acquired $7 billion worth of bank deposits from Metlife Inc.[64]

In April 2013, General Electric Co acquired oilfield pump maker Lufkin Industries for $2.98 billion.[65]

In April 2014, it was announced that GE was in talks to acquire the global power division of French engineering group Alstom for a figure of around $13
billion.[66] A rival joint bid was submitted in June 2014 by Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) with Siemens seeking to acquire Alstom's gas
turbine business for €3.9 billion, and MHI proposing a joint venture in steam turbines, plus a €3.1 billion cash investment. In June 2014 a formal offer
From GE worth $17 billion was agreed by the Alstom board. Part of the transaction involved the French government taking a 20% stake in Alstom to help
secure France's energy and transport interests, and French jobs. A rival offer from Siemens-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was rejected. The acquisition was
expected to be completed in 2015.[67] In October 2014, GE announced it was considering the sale of its Polish banking business Bank BPH.[68]

In April 2015, GE announced its intention to sell off its property portfolio, worth $26.5 billion, to Wells Fargo and The Blackstone Group.[69] It was
announced in April 2015 that General Electric would sell most of its finance unit and return around $90 billion to shareholders as the firm looked to trim
down on its holdings and rid itself of its image of a "hybrid" company working in both banking and manufacturing.[70] In August 2015, GE's GE Capital
agreed to sell its Healthcare Financial Services business to Capital One for US$9 billion. The transaction involves US$8.5 billion of loans made to a wide
array of sectors including senior housing, hospitals, medical offices, outpatient services, pharmaceuticals and medical devices.[71] Also in August 2015, GE
Capital agreed to sell GE Capital Bank's on-line deposit platform to Goldman Sachs. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the sale includes
US$8 billion of on-line deposits and another US$8 billion of brokered certificates of deposit. The sale is part of GE's strategic plan to exit the U.S. banking
sector and to free itself from tightening banking regulations. GE also aims to shed its status as a "systematically important financial institution."[72]

In September 2015, GE Capital agreed to sell its transportation-finance unit to Canada's Bank of Montreal. The unit sold has US$8.7 billion (CA$11.5
billion) of assets, 600 employees and 15 offices in the U.S. and Canada. Exact terms of the sale were not disclosed, but the final price would be based on
the value of the assets at closing, plus a premium according to the parties.[73] In October 2015, activist investor Nelson Peltz's fund Trian bought a $2.5
billion stake in the company.[74]

In January 2016, Haier Group acquired General Electric's appliance division for $5.4 billion.[75] In October 2016, GE Renewable Energy agreed to pay
€1.5 billion to Doughty Hanson & Co for LM Wind Power during 2017.[76]
At the end of October 2016, it was announced that General Electric was under negotiations for a deal valued at about $30 billion to combine GE Oil and
Gas with Baker Hughes. The transaction would create a publicly-traded entity controlled by GE.[77] It was announced that GE Oil and Gas would sell off
its water treatment business as part of its divestment agreement with Baker Hughes.[78] The deal was cleared by the EU in May 2017, and by the DOJ in
June 2017.[79][80] The merger agreement was approved by shareholders at the end of June 2017. On July 3, 2017, the transaction was completed and Baker
Hughes became a GE company.[81] In April 2017, GE announced the name of their $200 million corporate headquarters would be "GE Innovation Point".
The groundbreaking ceremony for the 2.5-acre, 800-person campus will be held on May 8, 2017, and a completion date is sometime in mid-2019.[82]

In September 2017, GE announced sale of Industrial Solutions Business to ABB. Deal expected to close by 1H2018.[83]

Stock
GE is the only company listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Index today that was also included in the original index in 1896.[84] GE is listed on the NYSE.

Linear GE stock price GE trading volume

graph 1962–2013 graph

Corporate affairs
GE is a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. However its main offices are
located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza at Rockefeller Center in New York City, known now as the Comcast Building. It
was formerly known as the GE Building for the prominent GE logo on the roof; NBC's headquarters and main
studios are also located in the building. Through its RCA subsidiary, it has been associated with the center
since its construction in the 1930s. GE moved its corporate headquarters from the GE Building on Lexington
Avenue to Fairfield in 1974.[85]

GE's tax return is the largest return filed in the United States; the 2005 return was approximately 24,000
pages when printed out, and 237 megabytes when submitted electronically.[86] The company also "spends
more on U.S. lobbying than any other company."[87]

In 2005, GE launched its "Ecomagination" initiative in an attempt to position itself as a "green" company. GE
is one of the biggest players in the wind power industry, and is developing environment-friendly products such A General Electric neon sign

as hybrid locomotives, desalination and water reuse solutions, and photovoltaic cells. The company "plans to
build the largest solar-panel-making factory in the U.S.,"[87] and has set goals for its subsidiaries to lower their
greenhouse gas emissions.[88]

On May 21, 2007, GE announced it would sell its GE Plastics division to petrochemicals manufacturer SABIC for net proceeds of $11.6 billion. The
transaction took place on August 31, 2007, and the company name changed to SABIC Innovative Plastics, with Brian Gladden as CEO.[89]

In February 2017, GE announced that the company intends to close the gender gap by promising to hire and place 20,000 women in technical roles by
2020. The company is also seeking to have a 50:50 male to female gender representation in all entry-level technical programs.[90]

In October 2017, GE announced they would be closing research and development centers in Shanghai, Munich and Rio de Janeiro. The company spent $5
billion on R&D in the last year.[91]

CEO
John L. Flannery is the current chief executive officer and chairman of the board of GE. He is the former president and chief executive of GE
Healthcare.[92]

Jeffrey Immelt is the former CEO and former chairman of the board of GE. He was selected by GE's board of directors in 2000 to replace Jack Welch
following his retirement. Previously, Immelt had headed GE's Medical Systems division (now GE Healthcare) as its president and CEO.
Immelt's tenure as the chairman and CEO of GE started at a time of crisis: he took over the role on September 7, 2001,[93] four days before the terrorist
attacks on the United States, which killed two employees and cost GE's insurance business $600 million — and had a direct effect on the company's
Aircraft Engines sector. Immelt was also selected as one of President Obama's financial advisors concerning the economic rescue plan.

Immelt retired from GE on October 2, 2017.

Corporate recognition and rankings

In 2011, Fortune ranked GE the 6th largest firm in the U.S.,[7] and the 14th most profitable.[8] Other rankings
for 2011/2012 include the following:[94]

#18 company for leaders (Fortune)

#6 best global brand (Interbrand)
#82 green company (Newsweek)
#91 most admired company (Fortune)
#19 most innovative company (Fast Company).
For 2012, GE's brand was valued at $28.8 billion.[95] CEO Jeff Immelt had a set of changes in the presentation
of the brand commissioned in 2004, after he took the reins as chairman, to unify the diversified businesses of
GE.

The changes included a new corporate color palette, small modifications to the GE logo, a new customized font
(GE Inspira) and a new slogan, "Imagination at work", composed by David Lucas, to replace the slogan "We
Bring Good Things to Life" used since 1979.[96] The standard requires many headlines to be lowercased and
adds visual "white space" to documents and advertising. The changes were designed by Wolff Olins and are GE Sans (used since 2014)
used on GE's marketing, literature and website. In 2014, a second typeface family was introduced: GE Sans
and Serif by Bold Monday created under art direction by Wolff Olins.[97]

As of 2016, GE had appeared on the Fortune 500 list for 22 years and held the 11th rank.[98]

Businesses Ranking in Fortune

500
The company describes itself as composed of a number of primary business units or
Year Rank
"businesses." Each unit is itself a vast enterprise, many of which would, even as a
standalone company, rank in the Fortune 500. The list of GE businesses varies over time 1996 7

as the result of acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. 1997 5

1998 5
As of January 2018, GE's primary business divisions are:[99]
1999 5
GE Additive
2000 6
GE Aviation
GE Capital 2001 5
GE Digital 2002 6 GE Serif (used since 2014)
GE Healthcare
2003 5
GE Lighting
GE Power 2004 5
GE Renewable Energy 2005 5
GE Transportation
Baker Hughes, a GE Company 2006 7
Current, powered by GE 2007 6
GE Global Research
2008 6
The former GE Appliances and Lighting segment was dissolved in 2014 when GE's
2009 5
appliance division was sold to Haier for $5.4 billion. GE Lighting (consumer lighting) and
2010 4
the newly created Current, powered by GE (commercial LED, solar, EV, and energy
storage), are now stand-alone businesses within the company. 2011 6
2012 6
Through these businesses, GE participates in markets that include the generation,
transmission and distribution of electricity (e.g. nuclear, gas and solar), lighting, 2013 8
industrial automation, medical imaging equipment, motors, railway locomotives, aircraft 2014 9
jet engines, and aviation services. Through GE Commercial Finance, GE Consumer 2015 8
Finance, GE Equipment Services, and GE Insurance it offers a range of financial services.
2016 11
It has a presence in over 100 countries.[100]
GE produces General Imaging digital cameras.[102]

Since over half of GE's revenue is derived from financial services, it is arguably a financial company with a
manufacturing arm. It is also one of the largest lenders in countries other than the United States, such as
Japan. Even though the first wave of conglomerates (such as ITT Corporation, Ling-Temco-Vought, Tenneco,
etc.) fell by the wayside by the mid-1980s, in the late 1990s, another wave (consisting of Westinghouse, Tyco,
and others) tried and failed to emulate GE's success.[103]

On May 4, 2008, it was announced that GE would auction off its appliances business for an expected sale of
GE gauges to control a railway
$5–8 billion.[104] However, this plan fell through as a result of the recession.[105] locomotive at a museum near
Saskatoon, Canada[101]
As of August 2015 GE is planning to set up a silicon carbide chip packaging R&D center in coalition with SUNY
Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York. The project will create 470 jobs with the potential to grow to 820
jobs within 10 years.[106]

On September 14, 2015, GE announced the creation of a new unit: GE Digital, which will bring together its software and IT capabilities. The new business
unit will be headed by Bill Ruh, who joined GE in 2011 from Cisco Systems and has since worked on GE's software efforts.[107]

Controversies and criticism

The six reactors in the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant catastrophe had been designed by General Electric. Their design had been criticised
as far back as 1972.[108]

In March 2011, The New York Times reported that, despite earning $14.2 billion in worldwide profits, including more than $5 billion from U.S.
operations, General Electric did not owe taxes in 2010. General Electric had a tax refund of $3.2 billion. This same article also pointed out that GE has
reduced its American workforce by one fifth since 2002.[109] The Times also reported that General Electric had been engineering tax reductions starting
with the fees paid on its 1892 New York State charter.[110]

In December 2011, the non-partisan organization Public Campaign criticized General Electric for spending $84.35 million on lobbying and not paying any
taxes during 2008–2010, instead getting $48.7 billion in tax rebates, despite making a profit of $10.4 billion, laying off 4,168 workers since 2008, and
increasing executive pay by 27% to $75.9 million in 2010 for the top 5 executives.[111] Between March 1990 and February 2001, General Electric was fined
or ordered to pay damages by a court 420 times, amounting to at least $934,027,215, according to a report from the Multinational Monitor.[112]

General Electric was one of the pioneers and early widespread adopters of planned obsolescence, with a major part in the Phoebus cartel.[113]

There has been protest regarding state grants and tax relief promised to GE prior to their decision to move their headquarters to Boston.[114][115]

Environmental record

Pollution
GE has a history of some of its activities giving rise to large-scale air and water pollution. Based on year 2000 data,[116] researchers at the Political
Economy Research Institute listed the corporation as the fourth-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States, with more than
4.4 million pounds per year (2,000 tons) of toxic chemicals released into the air.[117] GE has also been implicated in the creation of toxic waste. According
to EPA documents, only the United States Government, Honeywell, and Chevron Corporation are responsible for producing more Superfund toxic waste
sites.[118]

In 1983, New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York to compel GE
to pay for the cleanup of what was claimed to be more than 100,000 tons of chemicals dumped from their plant in Waterford, New York.[119] In 1999, the
company agreed to pay a $250 million settlement in connection with claims it polluted the Housatonic River (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) and other sites
with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other hazardous substances.[120]

In 2003, acting on concerns that the plan proposed by GE did not "provide for adequate protection of public health and the environment," the United
States Environmental Protection Agency issued a unilateral administrative order for the company to "address cleanup at the GE site" in Rome, Georgia,
also contaminated with PCBs.[121]

The nuclear reactors involved in the 2011 crisis at Fukushima I in Japan are GE designs,[122] and the architectural designs were done by Ebasco,[123]
formerly owned by GE. Concerns over the design and safety of these reactors were raised as early as 1972, but tsunami danger was not discussed at that
time.[124] As of 2014, the same model nuclear power reactors designed by GE are operating in the US,[125] such as the controversial Pilgrim Nuclear
Generating Station, in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Pollution of the Hudson River
General Electric heavily contaminated the Hudson River with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) between 1947 and 1977.[126] This pollution caused a range
of harmful effects to wildlife and people who eat fish from the river or drink the water.[127] In response to the contamination, activists protested in various
ways. Musician Pete Seeger founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and the Clearwater Festival to draw attention to the problem. In 1983, the United
States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared a 200-mile (320 km) stretch of the river, from Hudson Falls to New York City, to be a Superfund
site requiring cleanup. This Superfund site is considered to be one of the largest in the nation.[128] Other sources of pollution, including mercury
contamination and sewage dumping, have also contributed to problems in the Hudson River watershed.[129][130]

Pollution of the Housatonic River

From c. 1932 until 1977, General Electric polluted the Housatonic River with PCB discharges from its plant at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. EPA designated
the Pittsfield plant and several miles of the Housatonic to be a Superfund site in 1997, and ordered GE to remediate the site.[131] Aroclor 1254 and Aroclor
1260, made by Monsanto was the primary contaminant of the pollution.[132][133] The highest concentrations of PCBs in the Housatonic River are found in
Woods Pond in Lenox, Massachusetts, just south of Pittsfield, where they have been measured up to 110 mg/kg in the sediment.[133] About 50% of all the
PCBs currently in the river are estimated to be retained in the sediment behind Woods Pond dam. This is estimated to be about 11,000 pounds of
PCBs.[133] Former filled oxbows are also polluted.[134] Waterfowl and fish who live in and around the river contain significant levels of PCBs and can
present health risks if consumed.[135][136][137]

Environmental initiatives
On June 6, 2011, GE announced that it has licensed solar thermal technology from California-based eSolar for use in power plants that use both solar and
natural gas.[138]

On May 26, 2011, GE unveiled its EV Solar Carport, a carport that incorporates solar panels on its roof, with electric vehicle charging stations under its
cover.[139]

In May 2005, GE announced the launch of a program called "Ecomagination", intended, in the words of CEO Jeff Immelt, "to develop tomorrow's
solutions such as solar energy, hybrid locomotives, fuel cells, lower-emission aircraft engines, lighter and stronger durable materials, efficient lighting,
and water purification technology".[140] The announcement prompted an op-ed piece in The New York Times to observe that, "while General Electric's
increased emphasis on clean technology will probably result in improved products and benefit its bottom line, Mr. Immelt's credibility as a spokesman on
national environmental policy is fatally flawed because of his company's intransigence in cleaning up its own toxic legacy."[141]

GE has said that it will invest $1.4 billion in clean technology research and development in 2008 as part of its
Ecomagination initiative. As of October 2008, the scheme had resulted in 70 green products being brought to
market, ranging from halogen lamps to biogas engines. In 2007, GE raised the annual revenue target for its
Ecomagination initiative from $20 billion in 2010 to $25 billion following positive market response to its new
product lines.[142] In 2010, GE continued to raise its investment by adding $10 billion into Ecomagination over
the next five years.[143]

GE (General Electric) Energy's renewable energy business has expanded greatly, to keep up with growing U.S.
and global demand for clean energy. Since entering the renewable energy industry in 2002, GE has invested GE facility in Schenectady, New
more than $850 million in renewable energy commercialization. In August 2008 it acquired Kelman Ltd,[144] a York
Northern Ireland company specializing in advanced monitoring and diagnostics technologies for transformers
used in renewable energy generation, and announced an expansion of its business in Northern Ireland in May
2010.[145] In 2009, GE's renewable energy initiatives, which include solar power, wind power and GE Jenbacher gas engines using renewable and non-
renewable methane-based gases,[146] employ more than 4,900 people globally and have created more than 10,000 supporting jobs.[147]

GE Energy and Orion New Zealand Limited (Orion) have announced implementation of the first phase of a GE network management system to help
improve power reliability for customers. GE's ENMAC Distribution Management System is the foundation of Orion's initiative. The system of smart grid
technologies will significantly improve the network company's ability to manage big network emergencies and help it to restore power faster when
outages occur.

Educational initiatives
GE healthcare is collaborating with The Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Medical University of South Carolina to offer an integrated
radiology curriculum during their respective MD Programs led by investigators of the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in micro-gravity study.[148] GE has
donated over one million dollars of Logiq E Ultrasound equipment to these two institutions.[149]

Marketing initiatives
2011–2013 content-marketing campaigns
Between September 2011 and April 2013, GE ran a content marketing campaign dedicated to telling the stories of "innovators—people who are reshaping
the world through act or invention". The initiative included 30 3-minute films from leading documentary film directors (Albert Maysles, Jessica Yu, Leslie
Iwerks, Steve James, Alex Gibney, Lixin Fan, Gary Hustwit and others), and a user-generated competition that received over 600 submissions, out of
which 20 finalist were chosen.[150]

Short Films, Big Ideas was launched at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival in partnership with cinelan. Stories included breakthroughs in
Slingshot (water vapor distillation system), cancer research, energy production, pain management and food access. Each of the 30 films received world
premiere screenings at a major international film festival, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. The winning amateur
director film, The Cyborg Foundation, was awarded a US$100,000 prize at the 2013 at Sundance Film Festival. According to GE, the campaign garnered
more than 1.5 billion total media impressions, 14 million online views, and was seen in 156 countries.

Sponsorships
In January 2017, General Electric signed an estimated $7 million deal with the Boston Celtics to have its corporate logo put on the NBA team's jersey.[151]

Legal issues
On August 4, 2009, the SEC fined GE $50 million for violating accounting rules in two separate cases, misleading investors into believing GE would meet
or beat earnings expectations.[152]

GE has faced criminal action regarding its defense related operations. GE was convicted in 1990 of defrauding the US Department of Defense, and again
in 1992 on charges of corrupt practices in the sale of jet engines to Israel.[153]

A GE-owned abandoned building resides on Seaview Avenue in Bridgeport, Connecticut.[154] The abandoned property has been cited in crimes that
include being used as a hideout for a 72-year-old thief in 2008. Defence lawyers included Craig Bridges and Tony Weimar [155]

Political affiliation
In the 1950s GE sponsored Ronald Reagan's TV career and launched him on the lecture circuit as a crusader against big government. Although it can be
argued that GE frequently supported conservative policies, GE's record with designing social programs, supporting civil rights organizations, and funding
minority education programs, speaks to their effort to support philanthropic programs and progressive causes.[156]

Notable appearances in media

In the early 1950s Kurt Vonnegut was a writer for General Electric. A number of his novels and stories (notably Cat's Cradle and Player Piano) refer to
the fictional city of Ilium, which appears to be loosely based on Schenectady, New York.[157] The Ilium Works is the setting for the short story "Deer in the
Works".

In 1981, GE won a Clio award for its :30 Soft White Light Bulbs commercial, We Bring Good Things to Life.[158] The slogan "We Bring Good Things to
Life" was created by Phil Dusenberry at the ad agency BBDO.[159]

GE was the primary focus of a 1991 short subject Academy Award-winning documentary, Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and
Our Environment,[160] that juxtaposed GE's "We Bring Good Things To Life" commercials with the true stories of workers and neighbors whose lives have
been affected by the company's activities involving nuclear weapons.[161]

In 2013, GE received a National Jefferson Award for Outstanding Service by a Major Corporation.[162]

See also
Edison Engineering Development Program
GE Global Research
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
GE Technology Infrastructure
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
List of assets owned by General Electric
Phoebus cartel
Top 100 US Federal Contractors

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Further reading
Carlson, W. Bernard. Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1991).
Woodbury, David O. Elihu Thomson, Beloved Scientist (Boston: Museum of Science, 1944)
Haney, John L. The Elihu Thomson Collection American Philosophical Society Yearbook 1944.
Hammond, John W. Men and Volts: The Story of General Electric, published 1941, 436 pages.
Mill, John M. Men and Volts at War: The Story of General Electric in World War II, published 1947.
Irmer, Thomas. Gerard Swope. In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 4, edited by
Jeffrey Fear. German Historical Institute.

External links
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Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=GE) · SEC filings (https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany
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