The
General Electric Company, or GE is a multinational American technology and services conglomerate. According to the Forbes Global 2000 it is the world`s second-largest company. It should not be confused with The General Electric Company plc, which was renamed Marconi plc in 1999.
In the 1960s, peculiarities in U.S. tax laws and accounting practices made it fashionable to assemble conglomerates. GE, which was a conglomerate long before the term was coined, is one of the very few corporations to achieve great success with this kind of organization.
GE is an enormous multinational conglomerate headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. The company describes itself as composed of a number of primary business units or "businesses." Each "business" is itself a vast enterprise, many of which would, even as a standalone company, rank in the Fortune 500. The list of GE businesses varies over time as the result of acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. General Electric`s tax return is the largest return filed in the United States, spanning approximately 24,000 pages when printed out. Electronically, the files were 237 megabytes. [1]
In 2005,
GE launched its "Ecomagination" initiative in an attempt to position itself as a "green" company. Currently the company is one of the biggest players in the wind power industry and also developing new environment friendly products such as hybrid locomotives and photovoltaic cells. The company has also set goals for its subsidiaries to lower their greenhouse gas emissions.
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