General Electric [1] [2] ( General Electric , abbr. GE ; MFA: [ˈdʒɛnəɹəl ɪˈlɛktɹɪk] ) is an American diversified corporation , a manufacturer of many types of equipment, including locomotives , power plants (including nuclear reactors ), gas turbines , aircraft engines , medical equipment, photographic equipment, household and lighting equipment, plastics and sealants , as well as a wide range of military products , from small arms and armored vehicles to military space systems and nuclear warheads [3] . About a fifth of the revenue from sales of products and services provided is the federal client sector of serving military orders (excluding foreign customers of American weapons and military equipment) [4] .
| General Electric | |
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| Type of | Public company |
| Listing on the exchange | |
| Base | 1878 |
| Former names | General electric |
| Founders | , , and |
| Location |  USA : Boston , Massachusetts |
| Key figures | H. Lawrence Culp Jr. (chairman and chief executive officer) |
| Industry | Production of electrical, energy, medical equipment, household appliances; transport engineering |
| Products | wide range |
| Turnover | ▼ $ 146.045 billion (2013) |
| Operating profit | ▲ $ 26.267 billion (2013) |
| Net profit | ▼ $ 13.057 billion (2013) |
| Assets | ▼ $ 656.285 billion (2013) |
| Capitalization | ▲ $ 88 billion (2019) |
| Number of employees | 283 thousand people (2018) |
| Divisions | GE Healthcare , GE Energy , GE Capital , GE Transportation , GE Aviation , Home & Business Solutions |
| Affiliated companies | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and |
| Auditor | KPMG |
| Site | www.ge.com |
General Electric Office New York
The company as of 2015 ranks ninth in the list of the largest public companies of Forbes Global 2000 [5] , and was the world's largest non-financial TNC , for decades consistently one of the largest contractors in the US military-industrial complex (among the top three or ten companies) the largest employer among the companies of the military industrial complex [6] , as well as a large media concern . In the Financial Times ranking by market capitalization, it ranks 13th in 2015 [7] .
The company's headquarters since 2016 is located in Boston , Massachusetts (USA).
Content
History
The company was founded in 1878 by inventor Thomas Edison and was originally called "Edison Electric Light", after the merger in 1892 with the company "Thomson-Houston Electric" got its modern name.
- 1910 - the company begins mass production of tungsten filament bulbs (a company bought a patent from the Russian inventor A. N. Lodygina in incandescent filaments of refractory metals in 1906) .
- 1925 - produces the first household refrigerator .
- 1928 - opens the broadcasting station and begins broadcasting television programs .
- 1942 - conducts tests of its first jet engine .
- 1947 - starts the serial production of automatic washing machines .
- 1960 - the company manufactures multi-mounted machine gun M134 Minigun , one of its iconic products.
Manual
At the end of the 20th century, Jack Welch was Chairman of the Board of Directors for 20 years. At the moment, the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer is Jeffrey Immelt .
J79 turbojet engine manufactured by General Electric
Shareholders
The largest owners of General Electric shares for 2016:
- The Vanguard Group, Inc. (6.25%)
- State Street Corporation (3.73%)
- BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, NA (2.59%)
- Capital World Investors (1.73%)
- FMR, LLC (1.63%)
- Bank Of America Corporation (1.40%)
- T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (1.37%)
- Northern Trust Investments, NA (1.31%)
- BlackRock Fund Advisors (1.18%)
- State Street Global Advisors Ltd. (1.06%)
- The Bank Of New York Mellon (1.03%) [8] [9]
Activity
Currently, the company includes 6 divisions [10] :
- GE Energy includes GE Power & Water, GE Energy Management, GE Oil & Gas. GE Energy manufactures equipment for water treatment and purification, equipment for power generation, safe and reliable distribution of electricity, oil and gas equipment, including turbines.
- GE Healthcare manufactures medical equipment.
- GE Transportation manufactures freight and passenger diesel locomotives, railway signaling equipment, diesel engines for rail and sea transport, as well as drives for mining dump trucks and drilling rigs.
- GE Aviation manufactures jet engines, gas turbine plants for use in shipbuilding, and also serves aircraft technology.
- GE Capital includes GE Money Bank and GE Commercial Aviation Services.
- Home & Business Solutions includes GE Lighting , Intelligent Platforms is engaged in the release of lighting equipment and uninterruptible power supplies.
Products
Civil products
- Electric locomotive PRR E44
Engines
Turbojet engines
- (for P-59 Airacomet, etc.)
- (for P-80 Shooting Star)
- (for F-84 Thunderjet and F-89 Scorpion)
- J47 (Boeing B-47 Stratojet et al.)
- J79 / CJ805 (B-58 Hustler et al.)
- J85 / J610 (T-38 Talon / Learjet 23)
Light engines and low bypass engines
- (Learjet 23)
- General Electric F101 (B-1 Lancer)
- (S-3 Viking, etc.)
- F404 (F / A-18 Hornet)
- F110 (F-14B / D Super Tomcat and others)
- F118 (Lockheed U-2, etc.)
- (Lockheed YF-22, etc.)
- (for Dassault Falcon 2000)
- F412 (F / A-18 Hornet)
- (F / A-18E / F Super Hornet)
- (F-35 Lightning II)
- (Honda HA-420 HondaJet, etc.)
High bypass turbofan engines
- (C-5A / B / C Galaxy)
- CF6 (Airbus A300, Boeing 747, 767)
- CFM56 / F108 (Airbus A320, 340; Boeing 737, KC-135R Stratotanker)
- GE90 (Boeing 777)
- GP7000 ( Airbus A380 )
- GEnx (Boeing 747-8, 787)
Turboprop engines and open fan engines
- (AH-64 Apache, etc.)
- GE36
- (Sikorsky CH-53K)
- (XF2R Dark Shark, etc.)
- (Let L-410 Turbolet, etc.)
Turboshaft engines
- (SH-3 Sea King, etc.)
- (CH-53E Super Stallion, etc.)
- (AH-64 Apache, etc.)
- (Lockheed P-7, etc.)
Industrial engines
- LM500
- LM2500
For cars
- LV100
Data Processing Systems
- GE-200 Series
Military products
In the structure of General Electric, in addition to the central office, there were seven structural divisions (in the form of corporations, departments, divisions, sections, etc.) that served military and other federal government orders: [11]
- General Electric Company , Santa Barbara , California - central office ;
- Appollo and Ground Systems Dept , Daytona Beach , Florida - Apollo Spacecraft Division, Ground Support and Flight Control Systems;
- Battery Products Section Gainesville , Florida ; Fitchburg , Massachusetts - battery division;
- Aircraft Engine Corporation , West Lynn , Massachusetts - a division of aircraft engines ;
- Ordnance Systems , Pittsfield , Massachusetts - a division of rocket-artillery weapons ;
- Aerospace Instruments and Control Systems Dept , Wilmington , Massachusetts ; Schenectady , New York ; Syracuse , New York - a division of aerospace equipment and flight control systems ;
- Re-Entry and Environmental Systems Division , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania - a division of the head parts of ballistic missiles , descent vehicles , aerospace air-conditioning systems , sealing and pressurization of the crew cabin;
- Armament & Electrical Systems Department , Burlington , Vermont - a division of small arms and electromechanical drives to control them;
- Aircraft Equipment Division (AED) , Burlington, Vermont - a division of aircraft armament, multi-barreled systems, turrets [12] .
- Weapon
- EX-28 - a 30-mm automatic gun for floating armored vehicles, a prototype [13]
- EX-29 (Mk 29) - 20mm automatic gun for floating LVTP-7 armored vehicles [14]
- GE-120B - 20-mm automatic gun for floating armored vehicles, prototype [14]
- GAU-10 / A - 12.7-mm aircraft machine gun
- GE-127A and GE-127B - 27.5 mm automatic gun for armored vehicles, prototype [15]
- Multi-barreled systems ( weapons with a rotating barrel )
- M61 Vulcan - 20mm Six-Barreled Aviation Cannon [16]
- M134 Minigun - 7.62-mm six-barreled aircraft machine gun [17] [18]
- XM214 Microgun - 5.56-mm six-barreled aircraft machine gun, prototype [19]
- M163 VADS - 20-mm six-barreled anti-aircraft machine [20]
- - 20-mm six-column aircraft cannon for aircraft [21]
- GAU-8 / A Avenger - 30-mm seven-barreled aircraft cannon for aircraft [22]
- GAU-12 / U Equalizer - 25 mm five-wing aircraft cannon for aircraft [23]
- GAU-13 / A - 30 mm four-barreled aircraft cannon for aircraft, prototype [24]
- GAU-19 / A (GE CAL 50) - 12.7-mm triple-barreled aviation machine gun for helicopters [17] [25]
- Mk 15 CIWS - 20-mm six-barreled naval anti-aircraft artillery complex [26]
- Turrets
- Machine-gun turrets and turrets for LVTP-7 floating armored personnel carriers
- Helicopter turrets for attack helicopters AH-1J
- Ammunition loading and unloading systems for aircraft A-7 , F4E , F-14 , F-15 , F-111 , A-10
- Armored vehicles
- Military aviation
- Missile weapons
- Torpedo armament
- Mk VI exploder - torpedo fuse , developed in 1926 [27]
- Ship armament
- The EX-84 is a universal rotating machine for rocket and artillery armament of small displacement ships and airborne assault vehicles (ORD) [28]
- Radio electronic equipment
- Automated Command and Control Systems (ACCS)
- Combat Information Systems (CICS)
- AEGIS
- Fire Control Systems (LMS)
- Mk 74 (ORD)
- Nuclear and Thermonuclear Weapons
- The manufacture of nuclear warheads of bombs and missiles based on weapons-grade plutonium from 1949 to 1965. handled the Hanford Arms Plant ( Hanford Works ) in Richland , Washington ; [3]
- The production of neutron particle generators and other necessary means of production of nuclear weapons was organized at the ( Pinellas Plant ) near St. Petersburg , Florida ; [29]
- The military research and development work was carried out at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Stanford , California [29] and at the in Niskeiune , NY ; [thirty]
- A number of other uranium and plutonium enrichment facilities. [31]
All of these enterprises and institutions were privately owned, state-owned (GOCO) under the authority of the US Atomic Energy Commission , where GE acted as a permanent contractor for the structure of operation of these facilities [32] .
Performance Indicators
The total number of the company's staff is 315 thousand people ( 2004 ). General Electric's revenue for 2008 amounted to $ 182.5 billion, net profit - $ 17.4 billion. [33] .
The company ranks 16th in the Fortune Global 500 [34] ( 2012 ).
Notes
- Дж "General Electric" / I. V. Uryupin // Grigoriev - Dynamics. - M .: The Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2007. - P. 648. - (The Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 t.] / Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004–2017, t. 8). - ISBN 978-5-85270-338-5 .
- ↑ General Electric . // Big Encyclopedic Dictionary. 2000
- ↑ 1 2 Nuclear Weapons Databook, v. 2, 1987 , p. 38
- ↑ Testimony of Dr. Gordon Adams, Director, Defense Budget Project . / Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1991: Hearings on S. 2884. - May 4, 1990 - Pt. 6 - p. 466-1483 p.
- ↑ General Electric on Forbes Lists (English) . Global 2000: The World's Biggest Public Companies . Forbes (May 2015). The appeal date is October 4, 2015.
- Missiles and Rockets , January 25, 1960, p. 44.
- ↑ Mikhail Overchenko. Russian companies in the Financial Times ranking by market capitalization returned 10 years ago . Vedomosti (21 June 2015). The appeal date is October 4, 2015.
- ↑ General Electric Company (GE) Institutional Ownership & Holdings - NASDAQ.com Unidentified .
- ↑ GE Major Holders Unsolved .
- ↑ GE: Fact Sheet Archived July 25, 2012.
- ↑ Selling to Navy Prime Contractors , July 1976, p. 65.
- ↑ Selling to Navy Prime Contractors , July 1976, p. 50.
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. 365.
- ↑ 1 2 Chinn, 1987 , p. 325.
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. 329.
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. 33-38.
- ↑ 1 2 Chinn, 1987 , p. 7
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. 95
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. 99
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. 48.
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. 119.
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. 133.
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. 171.
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. 159.
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. eleven.
- ↑ Chinn, 1987 , p. 42
- ↑ Friedman, 1982 , p. 117.
- ↑ Friedman, 1982 , p. 169.
- ↑ 1 2 Nuclear Weapons Databook, v. 2, 1987 , p. 148.
- ↑ Nuclear Weapons Databook, v. 2, 1987 , p. 71
- ↑ Nuclear Weapons Databook, v. 2, 1987 , Uranium Inventories at Other Sites, p. 87
- ↑ Nuclear Weapons Databook, v. 2, 1987 , Former Government-owned Nuclear Warhead Facilities, p. 38
- ↑ Mikhail Overchenko . Half a century ago // Vedomosti , 13.03.2009, No. 44 (2314)
- ↑ Fortune Global 500 2011: The World's Biggest Companies - General Electric // CNN
Literature
- Cochran, Thomas B .; Arkin, William M .; Hoenig, Milton M. Nuclear Weapons Databook, Vol. II: US Nuclear Warhead Production. (eng.) - Cambridge, Mass .: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1987. - 240 p. - ISBN 0-88730-125-8 .
- Chinn, George M. The Machine Gun: History, Evolution, and Development . - Washington, DC: Department of the Navy , Bureau of Ordnance , 1987. - Vol. 5 - 748 p.
- Friedman, Norman . US Naval Weapons: Every Gun, Missile, Mine, and Torpedo . - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1982. - 287 p. - ISBN 0-87021-735-6 .
Links
- Official website of the company (rus.)
- Once the largest company in the world - General Electric - dismissed the general director // Tape. Ru , October 11, 2018