Dubai, UAE ---January 2, 2013 -- GE Lighting today announced that Agostino Renna has been named president and CEO of GE Lighting Europe, Middle East & Africa effective immediately.
Renna, who will report to GE Lighting president & CEO Maryrose Sylvester, succeeds Phil Marshall who has led GE Lighting Europe, Middle East & Africa, since 2008. Marshall has left GE Lighting to pursue a position outside of the company.
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Dubai, UAE; December 5, 2012: GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE (NYSE: GE) has appointed Maher Abouzeid, who has over 20 years of experience in the industry, as its President & Chief Executive Officer for Middle East and Pakistan.
Based in Dubai, Abouzeid will be responsible for driving the continued growth and expansion of GE Healthcare's brand in the region. He will also focus on strengthening customer relationships and partnerships across all the countries in the Middle East and Pakistan.
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Dubai, UAE, November 27, 2012 -- GE Lighting---inventor of many of the major lighting technologies at work today, including the first visible LED 50 years ago---has signed an agreement to acquire Boulder, Colorado-based Albeo Technologies, Inc., a privately held LED fixture manufacturer established in 2004.
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GE announced third-quarter 2012 Operating Earnings of $3.8 billion, or $0.36 per share, up 10% and 50% respectively from the third quarter of 2011.
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Dubai, UAE; October 13, 2012: GE Lighting (NYSE: GE), an industry leader in major lighting solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use, will underscore its commitment to nurture local talent in the lighting design industry by providing vocational training to the winners of the 'Best in Class Design' competition that was held at the recent Light Middle East.
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Dubai, UAE; October 10, 2012: Fifty years ago, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE colleagues at the time called "the magic one" because its light, unlike infrared lasers, was visible to the human eye.