FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2004--Briggs L. Tobin has been named GE's Senior Counsel for Transactions, the company announced today. He succeeds Pamela Daley, who became GE vice president for corporate business development.
As senior counsel, Tobin, 43, will lead all corporate legal work on mergers and acquisitions and other transactions, including negotiations, due diligence and integration.
FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2004--GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), announced that it was selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) to lead $11 million of research projects in the development of hydrogen as a fuel source. The programs are focused on near and long term solutions for the production of hydrogen with sustainable, clean technologies. GE Global Research will contribute approximately $2.5 million to the projects with the balance coming from DOE and other industry partners.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2004--The General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) will hold its 2005 Annual Meeting of Shareowners on April 27 2005, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The meeting will be held at Aronoff Center at 10:00 a.m.
GE moves its annual meeting to a different site each year to highlight a different GE business -- GE Transportation is headquartered in Evendale, Ohio, near Cincinnati. GE has approximately 7, 000 employees in the Cincinnati area.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 2004--General Electric is on track for its previously announced outlook of $1.57-$1.60 in earnings per share (EPS) for 2004 and double-digit EPS growth in 2005, GE Senior Vice President and CFO Keith S. Sherin told investors at a meeting held this morning to review the company's Commercial Finance and Consumer Finance businesses.
The meeting is taking place from 9 a.m. to noon and is being Webcast at www.ge.com/investor.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2004--GE will Webcast its conference call on third quarter 2004 financial results on Friday, October 8 at 8:30 a.m. ET.
The conference call will follow the Company's news release on results, which will be available prior to the call. Information about the call is available at www.ge.com/investor. The conference call and related materials will be available at that Web site Friday morning.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2004--General Electric Company issued the following statement today regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission's announcement on the Employment and Post-Retirement Consulting Agreement of former GE CEO Jack Welch:
GE has cooperated fully with the SEC's informal investigation into the disclosure of Jack Welch's Employment and Post-Retirement Consulting Agreement.