FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2005--The Board of Directors of GE today authorized a regular quarterly dividend of $0.22 per outstanding share of its common stock. The dividend is payable July 25, 2005 to shareowners of record at the close of business on June 27, 2005. The ex-dividend date is June 23, 2005.
Ben Heineman, SVP Law and Public Affairs, Stephen Ramsey, VP Environmental Programs, and Bob Corcoran, VP Corporate Citizenship, held an investor conference call to review the Citizenship report highlights and answer your questions.
Ben Heineman, SVP Law and Public Affairs, Stephen Ramsey, VP Environmental Programs, and Bob Corcoran, VP Corporate Citizenship, held an investor conference call to review the Citizenship report highlights and answer your questions.
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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2005--GE's ecomagination is creating a new awareness of energy-efficient homes and solar electric products for the new home construction industry. The company's commitment to ecomagination is already evident in its development of solar products specifically for new homebuilders and in its involvement in more than 55 solar-housing communities in California.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2005--GE released today its first citizenship report highlighting its performance, progress and challenges in a variety of citizenship areas, including compliance and governance; globalization; community investment; the environment, health, and safety; products and research and development; and its commitment to employees and other stakeholders. The report, "Our Actions," tells an integrated story of how GE conducts business, its impacts on communities, and its efforts to be a good and trusted world citizen.
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DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2005--An innovative handheld diagnostic tool, developed by GE (NYSE:GE) for its VeriWise(TM) Asset Intelligence product, has earned the 2005 award for "Best Telematics Portable / Handheld Product" from a leading telematics industry group. VeriWise is also one of the GE "Imagination Breakthrough" projects described in this year's annual report.
Telematics is a term used to describe the integration of wireless communications with vehicle sensor-based monitoring systems and location devices.
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2005--GE (NYSE:GE) today announced the opening of its GE Automotive Center of Excellence, dedicated to providing value-added services, technologies, and solutions to the automotive industry of the future. Located at Two Towne Square in Southfield, Michigan, the state-of-the-art facility will spotlight GE's ability to serve a demanding and evolving industry with GE values in this modern setting.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2005--General Electric Company Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt today announced ecomagination, a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges.
"Ecomagination is GE's commitment to address challenges such as the need for cleaner, more efficient sources of energy, reduced emissions and abundant sources of clean water," Immelt said. "And we plan to make money doing it. Increasingly for business, 'green' is green.