MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nearly 70 percent of trucking business leaders believe that fuel prices are placing the business at risk, according to an international survey of 1,200 trucking industry leaders in Canada, the U.S., U.K. and France. The survey, commissioned by GE Capital Solutions, a leading provider of financing for the commercial trucking industry, also reveals that driver shortages (69 percent) and excessive regulation (40 percent) are top threats to business performance.
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Arrangement the first of its kind in North America's accessibility industry
Laval, Québec -- Savaria Corporation (TSX: SIS), North America's second-largest provider of accessibility equipment, and GE Money, the Canadian consumer-lending unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today that they have entered an agreement where GE Money will provide financing for consumers purchasing Savaria's accessibility products.
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NISKAYUNA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE (NYSE: GE) today announced a $13 million research partnership with the Federal Transit Administration, Ballard Power Systems and A123 Systems to develop a lightweight, battery dominant zero emissions hybrid fuel cell bus. The research will be led by GE's Global Research Center in Niskayuna, where researchers can leverage a long history in hybrid vehicles and expertise in battery chemistry.
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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Commercial Finance has extended a five-year, non-recourse trade receivables factoring facility with a credit line of EUR 800m to KME Group S.p.A. GE will purchase and manage KME's receivables across Europe. The deal is GE's largest pan-European factoring transaction.
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ALLIANCE TO SERVE GLOBAL MINING MARKETS WITH COST SAVING, ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND WATER & PROCESS SOLUTIONS ALLIANCE JOINS GE ECOMAGINATION PORTFOLIO
For Immediate Release: (October 20, 2005) TREVOSE, PA and LAKEWOOD, CO --- GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric (NYSE:GE), and HW Process Technologies, Inc. (HWPT), a unit of the Harrison Western Companies, today announced a new strategic alliance aimed at providing proprietary, environmentally sound, process recovery, water reuse and wastewater solutions to serve the global mining market.
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STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Stamford Public School district has been awarded a $15.3 million, five-year grant from the GE Foundation's College Bound District Program, the district and the Company announced today. The grant, the largest non-government grant in the district's history, is designed to improve student achievement and increase college readiness through comprehensive school/business/community collaboration.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, GE announced education grants totaling $35 million in two public school districts: $20 million to Cincinnati, Ohio; and $15 million to Stamford, CT. Both are the largest non-governmental grants ever received by the districts. The grants are a part of GE's successful "College Bound" program, a five-year, $100 million investment to help increase the number of students who go on to college in targeted U.S. school districts.
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WAUKESHA, Wis. & RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) and Volcano Corporation (NASDAQ: VOLC) today announced the completion of the first commercial installation of Innova IVUS at PinnacleHealth Heart and Vascular Institute at Harrisburg Hospital in Harrisburg, PA.
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University's Proceeds to Help Fund Alumni Legacy Scholarship Program.
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boston College, one of the nation's leading institutions of higher learning, has selected GE Money, the consumer lending unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), to provide an affinity credit card product to the university's alumni, graduate students, graduating seniors, faculty and staff.