GE
Company Information
About
The GE Company
From jet engines to power generation, financial services to plastics,
and medical imaging to news and information, GE people worldwide
are dedicated to turning imaginative ideas into leading products
and services that help solve some of the world's toughest problems.
GE
is a diversified technology and services company dedicated to creating
products that make life better from aircraft engines and power generation
to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and
plastics. GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs more
than 315,000 people worldwide.
The
company traces its beginnings to Thomas A. Edison, who established
Edison Electric Light Company in 1878. In 1892, a merger of Edison
General Electric Company and Thomson-Houston Electric Company created
General Electric Company. GE is the only company listed in the Dow
Jones Industrial Index today that was also included in the original
index in 1896.
GE
Company Values
Imagine, solve, build and lead - four bold verbs that express what
it is to be part of GE. Their action-oriented nature says something
about who GE are - and should serve to energize themselves and their
teams around leading change and driving performance.
For
more than 125 years, GE has been admired for its performance and
imaginative spirit. The businesses that GE invent and build fuel
the global economy and improve people's lives.
Today, GE are 11 technology, services and financial businesses with
more than 300,000 employees in 160 countries around the world.
What
unifies GE? Their Actions and Values.
What
they do and how they work is distinctly GE. It's a way of thinking
and working that has grounded their performance for decades. It's
a way of talking about their work and themselves that takes the
best from their past and expresses it in the spirit and language
of GE today.
It's
about who GE are, what they believe, where they are headed, how
they will get there. It's how GE imagine, solve, build and lead.
|
