Fairfield, CT, July 3, 2013 -- This week, during President Obama's trip to Africa, the White House announced Power Africa, a new initiative to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa. Power Africa will work in collaboration with U.S. and African partners to ensure the path forward on power generation. The initiative maximizes the benefits to the people of Africa, while also ensuring that development proceeds in a timely, financially sound, inclusive, transparent and environmentally sustainable manner.
GE Capital today announced it had provided McWilliam's Wines Group Ltd, one of the largest wine companies in Australia, with a $55 million financing facility.
The five-year facility provides McWilliam's Wine Group scope to grow and to further consolidate its position as an end-to-end wine business spanning grape sourcing, winemaking and sales to major retailers, wholesalers and consumers across Australia and globally.
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Mid-market firms created more than 214,000 new jobs in the last year with Germany leading job creation
Mid-market firms across the four markets of France, Germany, Italy and the UK (the 'EU-4') are in growth mode -- represented through both sales and employment intentions -- despite tough economic conditions and a focus on keeping costs down, headline findings from GE Capital's 2013 mid-market survey show.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- July 1, 2013 -- GE [NYSE: GE] Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced today the appointment of Susan P. Peters as Senior Vice President, Human Resources, succeeding John Lynch, who is retiring. Immelt also announced that Raghu Krishnamoorthy, Vice President of Human Resources for GE Aviation, will succeed Peters as head of Executive Development and Chief Learning Officer for GE, and that Ernest W. Marshall, Jr., Global Human Resources leader for Aviation Systems, will succeed Krishnamoorthy as Vice President of Human Resources for GE Aviation.