September 30, 2005 -- EVENDALE, Ohio - Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) has selected General Electric Company's GEnx jet engine to power its fleet of 10 new Boeing 787 aircraft.
The engine order is valued at more than $250 million and represents General Electric Company's first GEnx order with a U.S.-based airline. Aircraft deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2009.
CHALFONT ST. GILES, England & BURLINGTON, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2005--GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and IDX Systems Corporation (Nasdaq:IDXC) announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for GE to acquire IDX, a leading healthcare information technology (IT) provider. Pursuant to the transaction, IDX shareholders will receive $44 per share payable in cash in the merger, for a total consideration of approximately $1.2 billion, net of IDX cash and equivalents.
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ATLANTA & FREDERICK, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2005--GE Energy, Bechtel Power and American Electric Power (AEP) took a critical step today toward construction of what would be the first integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC), or cleaner coal, power plant in the United States in nearly 10 years.
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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2005--Ambion, Inc., an Austin-based life sciences company that develops technologies for RNA analysis, and GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced that they had entered into a license and supply agreement under which GE Healthcare will manufacture for Ambion microRNA (miRNA) microarrays utilizing GE Healthcare's CodeLink(TM) Bioarray technology.
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September 27, 2005 -- EVENDALE, Ohio - Bradley D. Mottier has been named president and chief executive officer of GE Engine Services within GE Transportation, Aircraft Engines. Mottier replaces Dan Heintzelman, who will assume the role of vice president of Energy Services for GE Energy.
Since 2002, Mottier has served as president and chief executive officer of Unison Industries, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aircraft Engines' Engine Services operation. Mottier joined GE in 2002, when GE acquired Unison Industries.
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WILMINGTON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2005--The U.S. utility industry has announced plans to prepare license applications to build a new generation of nuclear reactors at three sites in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, with two projects featuring GE Energy's advanced reactor design, the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR).
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SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2005--GE Healthcare, a unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced a $37.5 million investment to extend its production facility in Shanghai in order to meet increasing customer demand for its products in the People's Republic of China and as well as throughout the globe. The GE Healthcare plant in Shanghai is currently undergoing a review process to be the first US FDA approved site for contrast media in China.
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John Rice, Vice Chairman and CEO GE Industrial, Mark Vachon, CFO GE Healthcare, and Beth Comstock, Chief Marketing Officer, to present at Prudential Mt. Snow Conference.
John Rice, Vice Chairman and CEO GE Industrial, Mark Vachon, CFO GE Healthcare, and Beth Comstock, Chief Marketing Officer, to present at Prudential Mt. Snow Conference.
Dominic McMullan
GE Corporate, Sr. Manager Public Relations
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+1 646 682 5601
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CHALFONT ST. GILES, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2005--GE Healthcare, a division of the General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), announced today that it is to join forces with Oxford University to study the pathology of colorectal cancer, with the aim of achieving earlier diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
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