Business Analysis II: General Electric Company Financial Analysis Cristina Mota Crespo University of Phoenix MGT/521 Management September 26‚ 2012 Prof. Elsie Jimenez-Galarza General Electric Company Financial Analysis This essay is continuation of the financial evaluation from last week; we had to choose a company among the Fortune 500 in my case I chose GE Company. This Finance is about the study of money‚ it helps managers and senior leadership in an organization
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BACKGROUND OF GE GE was founded in 1878 and is headquartered at Connecticut. At present it is chaired by Jeffrey Immelt. The revenue of the company is $182.515 billion.GE operates in more than 100 countries‚ employs more than 320‚000 people worldwide. According to business week survey GE is the fourth most recognised brand in the world. In 2009‚ Forbes has ranked GE as the world’s largest company. At the beginning of the 1980s General Electric determined a goal of increasing its market share
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Saptarshi Dutta (11DM-140) The General Electric Turnaround (1981-2000) Ranked at number 6 in the fortune 500 list‚ GE is the world’s most valuable and admired company. This status is attributed to the changes made by the company in the two decades from 1981 to 2000 under the leadership of CEO Jack Welch. In the 20 years that Jack led GE’s‚ revenues rose from $30 to $130 billion and company value went from $14 to $410 billion. Jack Welch’s entire strategy took place in 3 waves- First Wave (1981)
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AWL (GE/McKinsey approach) | 1. Describe the business portfolio and the options available to AWL. The business portfolio of AWL’s 1998 fiscal year consists of three SBUs‚ namely three new marketing textbooks‚ including Advertising and Sales Promotion Strategy‚ Analysis for Strategic Marketing and Marketing Engineering. We can also see these three textbooks in the GE Portfolio Matrix as shown in Graph 1 and Graph 2. AWL should have clear understanding of these three new textbooks in order
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| General Electric | A Business Analysis | | | | | Table of Contents: Abstract | Page 3 | Introduction | Page 4 | Strengths and Weaknesses | Page 5 | Financial Analysis | Page 9 | Environmental Threats | Page 10 | Growth Opportunities | Page 12 | Assessment‚ Prospects‚ and Suggested Future Direction | Page 15 | References | Page 17 | Abstract General Electric is a worldwide manufacturer and supplier of an extremely wide spectrum goods and services
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Awarded the most admirable company six times in the past few decades by Fortune‚ General Electric (GE) is obviously a very successful company. However‚ they were caught up in a trap of handing their CEOs a ridiculous amount of money like many other large corporations. According to one article from “Competition Forum” called Executive Compensation: The Case of General Electric by Nwabueze‚ Scott‚ Horak‚ and Chhotu‚ new management came in the form of Jeffrey Immelt in 2003 and changes were made.
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General Electric is an American conglomerate currently ranked #9 on the Fortune 500 list. The firm operates in four primary business segments; Energy‚ Technology Infrastructure‚ Capital Finance and Consumer / Industrial. Headquartered in Fairfield‚ CT‚ General Electric has grown over the past 122 years into a financial behemoth realizing revenue in excess of $146 billion in 2013. Throughout its existence‚ General Electric has demonstrated an inconsistent record in terms of ethical governance and
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determine the attractiveness of the market.There are many features of an industry in which a company competes that determines the level of competition it will face and the profits it will get. The most famous classification was done by Michael Porter‚ known as Porters Five Forces framework which can help a company determine its potential profits by looking at five sources of competitive pressure. The five sources of competition are: 1. Threat of new entrant 2. Threat of substitutes 3. Rivalry among existing
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potentials. In addition‚ the territory that is known to be the toughest will soon require a new sales rep. Company History/Background Canadian Appliance Manufacturing Co. Ltd (CAMCO) was created in 1998 under the joint ownership of Canadian General Electric Ltd. and General Steel Wares Ltd. (G.S.W.). CAMCO purchased the production facilities of Westinghouse Canada Ltd. under which the brand name White-Westinghouse was created. Appliances manufactured by CAMCO in the former Westinghouse plant were branded
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hundreds of millions of dollars of damage each year. With such troubling reports kitchen safety has become increasingly important to consumers. In order to demonstrate commitment to consumer safety General Electric is pleased to introduce its latest innovation in cooking products development - the GE Cook Alert. GE is committed into achieving leadership by developing global technical capabilities‚ increasing new product growth‚ and investing in global research. With today’s competitive environment GE’s
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