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7/30/2019 Ge Investor Communications Brochure 2q2008
Today’s interdependent global economy iscreating new opportunities or growth —and the corresponding challenges o man-aging that growth responsibly. In bothinstances, GE’s size is an advantage. GE isleveraging its size to make a big impact in
the ollowing areas:Ecomagination — accelerating the devel-opment, marketing and visibility o productsthat will help our customers meet pressingenvironmental issues across a variety o industries. We have also set ambitioustargets or reducing the emission o green-house gases and increasing the energyeciency o our operations.
– “Investing and Delivering on ecomagina-tion” — The company’s third report onhow GE is delivering on its environmentalcommitments can be viewed and down-loaded on line at http://ge.ecomagination.
com/site/index.html#media/2007ecoreport
Emerging Markets — a vital part o GE’sgrowth strategy in the years ahead — but tobe successul we must integrate citizenshiprom day one, solve big needs and createvalue or local communities.
– Nearly 60% o our growth will come romdeveloping countries in the next decade.
– Emerging markets will represent ~25% o global talent by 2010.
Compliance & Governance — our compli-ance systems have brought all our businessleaders into the process — not just ournance and legal stas. Maintaining highstandards o compliance and governancesupports a high perormance, high integrity
culture.– Named Top Corporate Perormer - GlobalGovernance by One World Trust.
Environment, Health & Safety — ourEHS management system is designed toestablish global standards and to promotebusiness leadership, responsibility andaccountability or perormance. GE doesthis by providing our employees with theinormation and training they need tomeet GE’s EHS expectations and maintainthe monitoring systems to ensure we meetthese expectations everywhere we oper-ate, including emerging markets.
“Investing in a sustainable uture” — Thecompany’s third citizenship report on howGE uses its capabilities to help address someo the world’s most pressing needs can beviewed and downloaded online atwww.ge.com/citizenship.
Solving Big Needs
Our
Contributions
GE invested morethan $1 billion oncleaner technologyR&D or 2007,drawing closer toits pledge to invest$1.5 billion annuallyon ecomaginationSM R&D by 2010
The GE amilycontributed $215+million and gavemore than onemillion volunteerhours worldwide.
GE plans to reduceits global water useby 20% by 2012.
Every year, wecomplete morethan 1,000 serviceprojects.
A Good Company
“It’s up to us to use our platorm to be a
good citizen, because not only is it a nicething to do, it’s a business imperative.” — Je Immelt
Recognitions
#1 Global MostAdmired Company 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,2002, 2005, 2006, 2007Fortune Magazine
“ Our business undamentals remain strong. We have deep equipment backlog and growing, high marginservice revenues. We have ample cash fow to reinvest in the businesses, pay an attractive dividend andexecute a stock buyback program. We are positioned or long-term growth. For the third quarter 2008,we are orecasting EPS rom continuing operations o $.50–.54, up 0–8% over comparable 2007 earnings,
and rearming guidance o $2.20–2.30, up 0–5% or the ull year.”
(a- Financial Service businesses on an after-tax basis
2008 Earnings Guidance
EPS $2.20–2.30 0–5%
This document contains “orward-looking statements” — that is, statements related to uture, not past , events. In this context,orward-looking statements oten address our expected uture business and inancial perormance, and oten contain words suchas “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” or “will.” Forward-looking statements by their nature addressmatters that are, to dierent degrees, uncertain. For us, particular uncertainties which could adversely or positively aect ouruture results include: the behavior o inancial markets, including luctuations in interest rates and commodity prices; strategicactions, including dispositions; uture integration o acquired businesses; uture inancial perormance o major industries whichwe serve, including, without limitation, the air and rail transportation, energy generation, media, real estate and healthcareindustries; unanticipated loss development in our insurance businesses; and numerous other matters o national, regional andglobal scale, including those o a political, economic, business, competitive and regulatory nature. These uncertainties may causeour actual uture results to be materially dierent than those expressed in our orward-looking statements. We do not undertaketo update our orward-looking statements.