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FAIRFIELD, Conn., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- General Electric has been named
"E-Business Of The Year" in the first annual "InternetWeek 100" survey
conducted by InternetWeek, the leading Internet/IT publication. The list of
businesses honored is based on a performance-focused questionnaire of major
U.S. companies and identifies the leading e-businesses in ten major industry
sectors.
"General Electric, the winner in the general manufacturing category, was
selected as the leading e-business overall, mainly because GE has moved
billions of dollars in sales and spending to the Internet at lightning speed,
aided by a corporate culture that rewards the sharing of ideas among its
20 business units," notes InternetWeek managing editor Bob Violino. "In fact,
the selection of GE as InternetWeek E-Business Of The Year is in part a
testament to the company's ability to create an Internet strategy that makes
as much sense for plastics and lighting manufacturing as it does for financial
services and broadcasting." The "InternetWeek 100" survey appears in the
June 12 issue of InternetWeek and online: internetwk.com.
GE has made it a priority to migrate its traditional "brick and mortar"
businesses to new e-business models. In 1999, e-Business became an official
GE initiative, joining Six Sigma, Globalization and Services as the key growth
strategies for the Company. In its first year, GE's e-business initiative
yielded more than $1 billion in online sales. For 2000, the Company's
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