NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 2005--GE Commercial Finance Global Media & Communications today announced that it has named Thomas M. Byrne as senior vice president, origination. He will be responsible for originating and structuring debt transactions for companies in the cable and telecom sectors. Based in New York, NY, Mr. Byrne will report to Peter J. Foley, managing director and head of origination for GE's Global Media & Communications unit.
BASEL, Switzerland & CHALFONT ST. GILES, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2005--Roche and GE Healthcare, a division of the General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced a collaboration aimed at developing personalized care for patients with Alzheimer's disease. In controlled clinical trials, patients taking a Roche anti-amyloid drug candidate for Alzheimer's disease will be monitored clinically for drug response using GE's positron emission tomography (PET) diagnostic imaging agent.
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NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2005--GE Commercial Finance Global Media & Communications announced today that it has provided $170 million in senior secured financing as administrative agent for Sioux Falls, SD-based broadband communications company PrairieWave Communications, Inc. The facility will fund PrairieWave's acquisition of Black Hills FiberCom, a provider of convergent communications services to 10 markets in western South Dakota.
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NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2005--GE Commercial Finance Global Media & Communications announced today that it has provided $170 million in senior secured financing as administrative agent for Sioux Falls, SD-based broadband communications company PrairieWave Communications, Inc. The facility will fund PrairieWave's acquisition of Black Hills FiberCom, a provider of convergent communications services to 10 markets in western South Dakota.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 2005--GE will Webcast its conference call on second quarter 2005 financial results on Friday, July 15 at 8:30 a.m. ET.
The conference call will follow the Company's news release on results, which will be available prior to the call. Information about the call is available at www.ge.com/investor. The conference call and related materials will be available at that Web site Friday morning.
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FLORENCE, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2005--GE Energy has signed a US$400 million, 17-year contractual service agreement (CSA) covering 27 gas turbines and 47 centrifugal compressors at Atlantic LNG Company's production facility in Port Fortin, Trinidad.
This contract includes a new maintenance approach based on an evolution of the modular exchange normally applied on GE aeroderivative engines and now extended to GE heavy-duty 32-megawatt gas turbines.
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WILMINGTON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2005--GE Energy's nuclear business has signed a strategic alliance agreement with FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC) of Akron, Ohio.
The six-year alliance, agreed to this year, will cover operational support at FirstEnergy's Perry Nuclear Power Plant and Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station.
The goal of the alliance is to maximize equipment and refuel outage performance at the two facilities, which are located in Ohio, along the northern shores of Lake Erie.
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FLORENCE, ITALY, July 7, 2005: -- GE Energy has signed a US$400 million, 17-year contractual service agreement (CSA) covering 27 gas turbines and 47 centrifugal compressors at Atlantic LNG Company's production facility in Port Fortin, Trinidad.
This contract includes a new maintenance approach based on an evolution of the modular exchange normally applied on GE aeroderivative engines and now extended to GE heavy-duty 32-megawatt gas turbines.