LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30, 2005--The first clothes care system with washer to dryer communication just got smarter. The highly acclaimed GE Profile Harmony Clothes Care System now features a CleanSpeak(TM) system, meaning it contains both English and Spanish options on the LCD washer and dryer touch screens.
"GE is proactively responding to changing U.S. demographics," said Jennifer Mintman, General Manager - Clothes Care and Dishwasher, GE Consumer & Industrial. "According to the 2002 Census, 13.3 percent of the U.S. population was Hispanic."
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STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 2005--GE Consumer Finance, one of the world's leading consumer lenders, and QVC, the leading electronic retailer, today announced that they have entered into a multi-year agreement to offer the private label QCard(R) to QVC customers in the U.S.
We're proud to be partnering with a retailer that is as successful as QVC, said Margaret Keane, president and chief executive officer of GE Consumer Finance's Retail Consumer Finance unit. QVC has a strong brand and customer base.
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FLORENCE, ITALY, August 11, 2005: -- GE Energy's oil and gas business has been selected to upgrade three propane compressors as a major portion of a "debottlenecking" project at the Malaysia Liquefied Natural Gas (MLNG) Dua plant in Bitulu, Sarawak, Malaysia. The US$18 million agreement represents one of the largest single-source upgrade contracts won by the GE oil and gas business to date.
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KOKOMO, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 2005--GE (NYSE: GE) New DS300 telematics unit helps GE customers remotely monitor over-the-road trailers and other assets for safety, security and fleet utilization
Delphi Corp. (NYSE: DPH) announced today it will begin production shortly on a new satellite transceiver unit that GE (NYSE: GE) will use with its VeriWise(TM) asset intelligence system. GE's VeriWise system allows fleet owners to track and monitor mobile assets such as over-the-road trailers.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2005--The clothes lines have been drawn and, for the third year, it's women who claim to be primarily responsible for doing laundry. A recent survey of over 1,000 men and women, sponsored by GE Consumer & Industrial, reports that females are still primarily responsible for doing the household laundry. But that's not the full story. There's a clear disconnect between the sexes about who feels responsible for the laundry.
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 2005--To help optimize the performance of heaters and electrostatic chucks in chip-making equipment, GE's Quartz business today announced an integrated heater assembly platform based at the company's new laboratory in Kobe, Japan. These custom assemblies - a critical subsystem of semiconductor equipment manufacturers' wafer chambers - combine customer-specific mechanical, electrical, and thermal engineering with GE's advanced chemical vapor deposited (CVD) ceramic heaters and e-chucks.
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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.