The Mission:
Its mission is to usher into the new industrial era and build, move, power and cure the world.
The Vision:
Its vision is to focus on the businesses that connect to its core competencies and is a market leader in.
Values:
Act with humility
Deliver with focus
Lead with transparency
Unyielding integrity
Early history of General Electric:
In 1889, Thomas Edison joined two others for forming storied conglomerates in USA
In 1889, a company founded by J.P Morgan financed the research work of Edison
In 1892, the company was merged with Thomson Houston electric company for forming the General Electric Company
In 1893, GE bought the business of Rudolf Eickemeyer in New York
In 1896, the company was one of the first 12 companies to be listed on Dow Jones
The first electric range, the HotSpot was created in 1910
In 1927, an executive of GE made the demonstration of TV broadcasts
It developed the garbage disposal in 1935
In the 1980s, Jack Welch, the chief executive, expanded the company into media
Growth of General Electric in modern times:
In 1962, the company developed its GECOS, operating system
From the year 1964-1969, GE and Bell laboratories joined the MIT
In 1970, the first artificial synthetic diamonds were created by GE
In 1986, GE purchased the RCA Corporation
In 1989, GE agreed to combine its European business interests
It established an industrial research laboratory in the year 1990
In 2002 the company acquired the wind power assets of Enron
In the year 2008, GE filed for almost 2500 patents across the world
In 2010, the company released electric bulbs needing 77% less energy
In 2011, GE sold the majority of the stake in NBCUniversal to Comcast
In 2011, it sold its $2 billion Mexican Assets to Santander
In 2016, GE moved its headquarters from Connecticut to Boston
In 2018, GE power garnered attention when 7HA gas turbine in Texas was shut down for around 2 months
In 2019, GE’s key aviation business witnessed an 8% increase in revenue from the same quarter 2018
Four ways GE has transformed the world where we live:
Power
Transportation
Environment
Devices
Where GE stands today?
The company ranked among the Fortune 500 as the 21st biggest firm by revenue in USA (2019). The company now has over 370,000 employees, in more than 100 countries.
GE stated in 2020, the COVID-19 infection would drag down the operating profit by $300 million
Departures of aircraft service dropped by 60% in china while GE itself has put the travel restrictions in affected areas
In 2021, the company projected it would generate $2.5 billion and $4.5 billion in the industrial cash flow
The company closed the fourth quarter with $4.37 billion in industrial free cash flow. It surprised everyone with a 70% surge in fourth-quarter
It was driven mainly by the renewable and power energy business
The company is planning to increase its delivery of service engines with Boeing 737 Max deliveries resuming
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