When Comcast acquired a 51 percent interest in NBCUniversal, in 2011, from GE, it had the option to buyout GE in three-and-a-half to seven-years.
Like GE before it, Hitachi is going to become truly global, and therefore less Japanese, company.
Last week, GE said it nominated the career regulator to its board of directors.
If this thinking is what is leading GE, it is just another example of why American manufacturing is in trouble.
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GE, it turns out, the Genworth operations were making a return on equity of only 9%, half what good companies manage and less than the 12% earned by the typical life insurer.
It is also likely that GE Capital will find it more expensive to borrow for some time to come.
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Rising interest rates don't bode well for commercial lending, but the GE suit insists it isn't a worry.
Mr. Immelt is a follower, not the leader that GE needs if it is to prosper in the 21st Century.
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Earlier this year, GE announced that it would open its first factory in Brazil as part of its commitment to Brazil and Latin America.
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But competition is a powerful banner to raise on Capitol Hill, and GE has waved it vigorously through five successive spending cycles in which Congress ignored policymakers to fund the program.
Since 2009 alone, GE has announced more than 10, 000 new U.S. manufacturing jobs and this week, GE announced that it will build its 16th new factory in the U.S. since 2009.
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Once the limited province of Cree and a few others, the technology is now rapidly moving into the marketplace in the hands of Siemens, Philips, and GE, and it has gone mainstream.
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ITT, Westinghouse and other conglomerates failed to make sense of their disparate mishmash of businesses, but GE has made it all work, in the sense that it carries a very rich multiple on Wall Street (44 times trailing earnings).
As Bhasin tells it, GE was brave to open its pilot back office at DLF Corporate Park in 1997.
In late July GE Capital confirmed that it is negotiating another deal to buy privately held Lake Co.
GE, has made it a rule that his senior managers cannot sit on the boards of other companies.
Weidmann had turned to GE Capital to help it finance a revamp of an abandoned printing plant in Urbana, Ohio.
Besides sticking its hand out in Washington for higher reimbursement rates, GE is doing all it can to keep existing customers.
It expands GE's existing LNG portfolio and is the first available in a 10, 000-gallons-a-day capacity that reduces demand-side adoption risk and requires a remarkably low CapEx and OpEx commitment.
This paper has been widely cited by anti-GE individuals as evidence of danger from GE crops, when it in fact suggests interesting facts about the foods we already eat.
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Most of it centered on how GE should not be compared to Facebook, largely because of size differences, and therefore how it was ridiculous to compare Jeff Immelt with Mark Zuckerberg.
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In a statement, the FSA said it had acted as GE Capital Bank had not reviewed its sales procedures, despite widespread evidence which emerged in 2005 that it was failing to meet recommended sales practices.
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It is not clear, however, that GE's industrial businesses added to the systemic risk posed by GE Capital, or to the difficulty of regulating it.
Now it's the only point of contact for GE Appliances' vendors and components suppliers, and it has also taken over the design of nearly all new product features.
Comcast has recently been aggressively remaking the management team it inherited from GE.
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Well, here it means that GE patents will be available in a database hosted by Quirky for easy browsing by inventors.
And GE (NYSE:GE) recently announced that it will be partnering with the City of Yangzhou to build a smart grid demonstration center.
To which Prestbo noted that if GE was the same company it was back in 1896 it would have been booted from the index long ago.
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