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GE Traces the Key to Sustainable Growth with its 2010 Citizenship Report

Creating sustainable value to address global challenges

GE Traces the Key to Sustainable Growth with its 2010 Citizenship Report

Creating sustainable value to address global challenges

Published 07-25-11

Submitted by General Electric Company

GE today released its seventh annual Citizenship Report, entitled Sustainable Growth. The report covers GE's worldwide operations for the 2010 fiscal year and is structured around discussions of GE's long-term value creation in addressing the world's most pressing problems.

"Sustainable growth requires solutions that go beyond the scale of individual companies," Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE, said. "As economies renew, governments, businesses, and society must all play a role in solving economic and societal problems. GE's commitment to high standards of integrity and social and environmental performance, as well as our ability to innovate, position us as a natural partner in helping solve the world's toughest problems."

The 2010 report, related performance data and other content are available on the company's new citizenship website: www.gecitizenship.com. The site houses 300 pages of website content across all performance areas: Compliance & Governance, Environment, Health & Safety, Our Supplies, Our Customers, Our Products & Services, Our People, Human Rights, Our Communities and Public Policy. The site includes new interactive features and focuses on making corporate citizenship more accessible to a general audience.

Sam Nunn, chairman of the GE Board of Directors Public Responsibilities Committee, said, "As an important part of our accountability process, this report is about specific issues of interest to stakeholders. It is also about how GE's products, services, and investments address global imperatives in a way that sustains growth and long-term value. I hope that those who read this report will recognize GE's commitment and effort, test our thinking, and work with us as we continue on this important journey."

Highlights in this year's report include:

  • An analysis tracing the source of GE's long-term value creation through the lens of good citizenship, by identifying global challenges, GE's expertise and contribution, and the relationship to value creation.
  • Expert perspectives from more than 20 global thought leaders on key issues, on topics such as climate change, human rights, labor and supply chain.
  • A ten-year retrospective, drawing on perspectives from the expert panel, reflecting upon the evolution of citizenship as well as opportunities for the future.
  • List of key challenges and GE's value to address the challenges. The GE Priority Matrix is introduced to highlight the areas where GE can have an impact, through its products and services or its business operations.
  • Perspectives of GE CEO Immelt, Board Member Nunn, Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brackett Denniston and Vice President of Corporate Citizenship Bob Corcoran.
  • A new redesigned and re-launched website www.gecitizenship.com, with more interactive, user-friendly navigation and narratives.

The report will be translated into four languages. To order a copy of the 2010 GE Citizenship Report, visit http://www.gecitizenship.com/reporting/order-a-report/. To sign up for more information about GE's corporate citizenship initiatives and practices, please visit http://www.genewscenter.com/webuser/register.asp.

GE (NYSE: GE) is a diversified global infrastructure, finance and media company taking on the world's toughest challenges. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services and health care solutions, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs about 300,000 people worldwide. For more information, visit the company's website at www.ge.com.

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GE (NYSE: GE) is a diversified technology and financial services company. GE operates in more than 150 countries and employs about 300,000 people worldwide. GE works on things that matter. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE's approach to corporate citizenship and to business are driven by a common understanding of the role we can play….the best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest global challenges.

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