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“We’ve emerged from the toughest period in our
industry with half a dozen new aircraft engines, a
breakthrough locomotive, 30,000 installed engines
and locomotives to maintain and upgrade, potential
new customers around the globe, and new ways
for our customers to get more out of their assets.
GE has never blinked in supporting aviation and rail
customers worldwide with innovation and services
that make them more profitable. We’re going to
do that with new composites for our aircraft engine
blades and new inspection, signaling and control
technologies for rail and aviation customers. Merging
our aircraft engines and rail operations into a single
GE business over the past year has been a complete
success. It’s hard to imagine a time when our pros-
pects have looked brighter.”
Dave Calhoun and Charlene Begley
“As the world’s leading diagnostic healthcare com-
pany, we are working to transform healthcare and
make it safer, more effective and patient-centered.
We are combining our expertise in diagnostic and
information technologies with our knowledge of
genetics to better understand disease and provide
doctors with more information to guide their deci-
sions. Our products will enable doctors to predict
and diagnose disease earlier and identify the best
treatments for each patient.”
Bill Castell, Joe Hogan and Peter Loescher
“We are at the epicenter of GE’s technological inno-
vations. We have 2,500 scientists and engineers at
four research centers around the world researching
emerging technologies such as biotechnology, sus-
tainable energy and nanotechnology. We have the
opportunity to develop these exciting new technologies
and successfully translate them into commercial
successes through close interaction with our business
marketing and technology teams. It makes us
uniquely capable of bringing novel solutions to the
marketplace. Our ability to transfer core technologies
from one business to another — a breakthrough in
imaging helps not only Healthcare but also our security
and inspections businesses — is a real competitive
advantage. Our passion is innovation; our focus is
bringing technology to the marketplace where it
can change peoples’ lives. That’s our heritage and
it’s why we are thriving today.”
Scott Donnelly
“The world’s economies need infrastructure to
enable and support growth, particularly in the devel-
oping world, where the pace of economic growth is
fastest today. GE is uniquely positioned to bring
multi-business solutions to some of the world’s big-
gest challenges. And consumers everywhere want
access to the same goods and services, whether
they are in Paris, Dubai, Moscow or Nairobi. As a truly
global company, with employees in many countries
around the globe, we can talk to our customers in
their own language and with a full understanding of
local needs.”
Nani Beccalli-Falco
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