The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP for Welwyn Hatfield visited GE Healthcare UK & Ireland's headquarters in Hatfield recently. Bettina Fitt, UK&I General Manager for GE Healthcare introduced the MP, who is also Minister of State for Housing and Local Government, to GE's operations in the UK and to GE Healthcare.
During the visit the issues that the UK medical technology and health sector is facing were discussed, as was progress of the Government's proposed health reforms.
GE announced strong first-quarter 2011 operating earnings of $3.6 billion, up 58%, or $0.33 per share, up 65%, from the first quarter of 2010.
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Sale, Manchester, 7 April 2011: Use of outright purchase as a method of acquiring company cars and vans may have fallen by more than half in the last 18 months, according to the latest quarterly Company Car Trends survey from GE Capital.
The research, which surveys 300 fleet decision makers, reveals that just 17% of respondents are using outright purchase today, compared to 38% just 18 months ago. Conversely, leasing appears to be making gains. In the same time period, the use of contract hire has risen from 42% to 66%.
Sale, Manchester, 7 April 2011: Fuel costs will be the fastest rising item on the fleet industry agenda during the next 12 months, according to GE Capital, Fleet Services latest quarterly Company Car Trends survey.
The research reveals that a third (31%) of all fleet managers rated fuel costs as a maximum concern. This figure rose to nearly half (47%) when asked how they believe they would answer the same question a year from now.
London, 23 March 2011 - GE Capital has signed a UK vendor financing agreement with 4Com, one of the UK's leading providers of business telephone systems. 4Com has supplied more than 7,000 UK businesses with tailored office telephone systems and is a leading provider to the UK SME market.
Skanska and GE have formed a strategic partnership to develop new environmental technologies and processes for the emerging green retrofit and refurbishment market, which is estimated to be worth in excess of £10bn per year in the UK.
This partnership combines GE's and Skanska's skills and expertise to deliver technologies for some of the most cutting-edge green refurbished commercial buildings in the UK.
LONDON, UK -- 03 March 2011: GE Capital announced today that it has provided Targus Europe Limited with £13 million financing facility. The facility will be used to support the businesses' on-going growth strategy in the UK.
Addition of Wood Group's electric submersible pumps and surface wellhead products:
*Provides GE with entry into the fast growing demand for enhanced oil recovery from mature oil fields using downhole pump 'artificial lift' in brownfield developments;
*Expands GE's high-technology product and service offering in unconventional oil and gas production, with significant applications for shale gas production;
