The commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, along with CEO of GE, Jeffrey Immelt, provided the opening comments to the packed room at 30 Rock in the GE building.
In a stuffy, jam-packed and low-ceilinged room on the 52nd floor of the GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the NFL and GE announced the launch of something called the Head Health Initiative.
After GE bought NBC's parent RCA in 1986, late-night host David Letterman strode to the then-GE building to deliver a fruit basket to his new owners, complete with a camera crew that filmed him being escorted out of the building.
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Low-flow fixtures inside the building cut water consumption by 42% and GE eliminated outside landscape irrigation, accoding to the company.
The eight-year-old New York-based shop of 22 employees focused on building integrated branded experiences for clients, such GE Works Centre, has been working with GE since 2010.
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The sale of the Rockefeller Center floors includes naming rights to the building, which has featured giant red "GE" letters at its top since 1988, a prominent part of the New York skyline.
Tuesday's sale of the remaining stake gives GE cash to focus on its industrial businesses, such as building train locomotives, wind turbines and lights.
GE's capital unit will also sell the floors NBCUniversal occupies in the iconic 30 Rockefeller Center building in New York as well as property in Englewood Cliffs, N.
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