GE (General Electric) Board of Directors and Committees

The Board held nine meetings during 2010. No member attended fewer than 75% of the Board meetings and committee meetings on which the member sits. It is the Board’s policy that the directors should attend our Annual Meeting of Shareowners absent exceptional circumstances. All of our current directors attended the 2010 Annual Meeting, other than Mr. Tisch who was elected to the Board after the 2010 Annual Meeting.

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GE (General Electric) Corporate Governance

Governance Principles. The Board of Directors’ Governance Principles, which include guidelines for determining director independence and qualifications for directors, are published on GE’s website at www.ge.com/company/governance. This section of the website makes available all of GE’s corporate governance materials, including Board committee charters and statements of committee key practices. These materials are also available in print to any shareowner upon request. The Board regularly reviews corporate governance developments and modifies its Governance Principles, committee charters and key practices as warranted.

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GE (General Electric) 2011 Proxy Statement

Proxy Statement
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Fairfield, Connecticut 06828

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GE Notice of 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareowners

10:00 a.m., April 27, 2011
Salt Palace Convention Center 100 South West Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101

March 14, 2011

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GE (General Electric) 2010 Compensation Decisions

Over the last decade, through two recessions, GE has earned $161 billion and generated $172 billion of cash from operating activities, cumulatively, more than twice as much as in the prior decade. Over the last five years, GE has earned $83 billion and generated $97 billion of cash from operating activities, cumulatively. As measured by cumulative earnings and cash from operating activities over the past decade, GE is one of the ten largest companies in the world. Throughout this period, management kept the company safe and secure and GE and GE Capital were profitable in every quarter. At the same time, the company went through a substantial portfolio transformation, including the dispositions of Employers Reinsurance
Corporation, GE Plastics and NBCU, which reduced volatility and generated funds for investment in higher-growth infrastructure businesses.

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GE (General Electric) 2010 Compensation/Salary of Executive Officers

Set forth below is the 2010 compensation for each named executive officer as determined under SEC rules. The SEC’s calculation of total compensation (reflected in the column entitled "Total”) includes several items that are driven by accounting and actuarial assumptions, which are not necessarily reflective of compensation actually realized by the named executives in 2010. To supplement the SEC-required disclosure, we have therefore included an additional column in the table below entitled "Total Realized Compensation,” which shows total compensation realized by each of the named executives in 2010.

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GE CEO, Jeffrey Immelt Letter to Shareowner for the 2011 Annual Meeting:

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GE Important Voting Information for 2011 Annual Meeting

IMPORTANT VOTING INFORMATION

As a result of recent rule changes, your broker is not permitted to vote on your behalf on the election of directors and other matters to be considered at the shareowner meeting (except on ratification of the selection of KPMG as auditors for 2011), unless you provide specific instructions by completing and returning the Voting Instruction Form or following the instructions provided to you to vote your shares via telephone or the Internet. For your vote to be counted, you now will need to communicate your voting decisions to your broker, bank or other financial institution before the date of the shareowner meeting.


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GE (General Electric) and London's National Gallery has recently launched a collaboration of  ecomaginative - the creation of the famous Van Gogh A Wheatfield with Cypresses, made of more than 8,000 plants and is being displayed at the west side of the of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Green did not stop there: GE also contributed Jenbacher cogeneration heat and power engines that will help minimize Gallery's carbon footprint.

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Picture a village in the lower part of the developed world where most births occur at home. Although the travel requirements are sometimes significant and cost, a certain percentage of higher-risk pregnancies, and deliveries should be done in the hospital. ultrasound imaging, of course, can help develop a routine pregnancy of high risk, but the ultrasound equipment may not be easily accessed by patients who would benefit from technology, especially patients in rural areas.

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