Re: Rumor about GE

["Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The only employees at GE likely to know about this would be the ones in
charge of selling off whole divisions. That would be an elite rare few I
suspect. Of course there is the chance that there is the odd employee that
can purchase whole divisions. That would be an even rarer bird I suspect.

"Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > >I heard an interesting tale from a source about GE. The buzz was that
GE
> was
> > >unhappy with its security division and was looking to sell.
> >
> > Could very well be.  Jack Welch, the former head of GE, believed that
> every
> > GE business unit needed to be first or second in its market, or else
face
> > being spun off or closed.  Welch is gone, but that attitude may persist.
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> Well they would certainly be at least 2nd behind Honeywell
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> I meet with GE people all the time, they've never said anything about this
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