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1 Vishwakarma Institute of Management, Pune, IN
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Vishwakarma Business Review, Vol 6, No 1 (2016), Pagination: 99-101
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VIM: Sir, we are keen to know about General Electric (GE) as a conglomerate and the specific role of GE India?
Mr. Srikant Srinivasan: GE is more than 130 years old; it was started as Edison Electric Light Company in the year 1878 by Thomas Alva Edison. It became GE in the year 1892 by merging the Edison Electric Light Company&Thomson-Houston Company. GE is also the only company in the New York Stock Exchange Dow Index since its inception. In India, GE has been present since 1902 - when it installed the first hydro-electric turbines in India at Shivanasamudra, near Mysore.
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