Decade in Review
The past decade has seen an acceleration in practical action by business. Companies have invested in eco-efficiency to find ways to “do more with less,” they have adopted ambitious environmental and social performance targets and managed them as...

Features Creating Sustainable Value for Shareowners
Responsibility to Shareowners GE is one of the most widely held stocks in the world. Ownership of the Company can and does benefit millions of people through flows of dividends and capital benefits, both to individual shareowners and through such...

Action Points Brazil to Host the Fifth Global Research Center
Brazil entered in recent years into a cycle of economic growth and, at the same time, has become an essential international figure due to its selection as the host of both the World Soccer Cup of 2014 and the Olympic Games of 2016. This positive...

Action Points Solidarity Celebrates GE 90 Years in Brazil
GE celebrated 90 years of its operation in Brazil with the 90 Thousand campaign: Three ideas, 90,000 actions that benefited more than 100,000 people. This was the Company’s most ambitious social responsibility initiative in this country. It...

Action Points Innovation in Sewage Treatment
One of the big challenges of the city of Campinas, located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, has been the treatment of sewage. A significant amount is still being discharged into rivers without treatment, jeopardizing the safety of the water...

Action Points GE Receives ESR Distinctive
For the eighth consecutive year in Mexico, and for the second straight year in Brazil, GE received the Social Responsible Company (ESR for its initials in Spanish) Distinctive, which has been awarded for the past 10 years by the Mexican Center of...

Action Points The Power of Sugarcane-Ethanol
In January 2010, GE and Petrobrás celebrated the use of sugarcane-ethanol in a gas turbine system to produce electricity on a full commercial scale, a world’s first. The operation, at the Juiz de Fora power plant, is a significant milestone for...

Country Fact Sheets
GE’s businesses are aligned with our overall strategy for responding to the big issues and problems facing the world today, and shaping our future. In past years, we have framed these business and societal priorities in a single matrix to help us...