GE Consumer & Industrial

GE Consumer & Industrial (GECI) was a business division of the U.S. General Electric Company, rather than an independent company. The available account describes its scope as including GE Appliances, which made household appliances; GE Lighting, focused on lighting technology; and GE Power Protection, associated with electrical power technology. The division also encompassed GE Home Electronics, which made telephones and telephone systems, televisions, and consumer electronics. That operation was sold to Thomson Consumer Electronics in 1987. The supplied evidence identifies GE Consumer & Industrial as a historical GE division and does not establish its founding date, headquarters, leadership, or a current standalone website. The present-day GE Appliances website is for an appliance business and does not, on its own, establish that the former division remains active.

GE Consumer & Industrial was a division of the U.S. General Electric Company. The supplied German-language encyclopedia entry describes it as comprising several lines of business: GE Appliances for household appliances, GE Lighting for lighting technology, and GE Power Protection for electrical technology. This range placed the division across consumer durables and industrial electrical products, rather than within a single product category. The division also included GE Home Electronics, a maker of telephones and telephone systems, televisions, and consumer electronics. The source records that this business was sold to Thomson Consumer Electronics in 1987. That transaction is a documented change in the division's portfolio; the evidence does not provide the date when GE Consumer & Industrial itself began or ended, or a complete sequence of subsequent reorganizations and asset transfers. The supplied GE Appliances corporate page describes GE Appliances as a Haier company and identifies Louisville, Kentucky, as its global headquarters. That information relates to the current GE Appliances business, not necessarily to the former GE Consumer & Industrial division as a whole. Accordingly, this dossier treats GE Consumer & Industrial as a historical General Electric division and does not assign it a separate current headquarters, founding date, or website.

• 1987

  GE Home Electronics was sold to Thomson Consumer Electronics.

A diversified consumer and industrial business division within General Electric, spanning home appliances, lighting, and electrical products.

• GE Appliances

  The division's household-appliance business.

• GE Lighting

  The division's lighting-technology business.

• GE Power Protection

  The division's electrical power-technology business.

• GE Home Electronics

  A former division business making telephones and telephone systems, televisions, and consumer electronics; sold in 1987.

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