Yes, it could get real interesting soon!
From the National Post article . . .
Terms of the agreement with GE Plastics were not disclosed, but the deal also gives Net Shepherd's subsidiary, Answers.com Inc., a master service deal that is expected to see the company get contracts with other GE divisions.
I immediately went to GE's website, and pulled the following information. Here is a list of the companies under GE's umbrella, and as such could be potential customers. I strongly recommend using the link below to drill into few of these companies to see just how big each of them really are!
Another thought that just occurred to me is that this agreement puts a whole new light on the potential of NSI's Chairman, Jan Baan's vision of incorporating a network of companies to provide "Beyond ERP" services to the world.
LOL, GE's motto has a new meaning for me. . . "We bring good things to life."
Crazy Canuck
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GE is made up of a broad range of primary business units, each with their own number of divisions.
Aircraft Engines
Aircraft Engines is the world's largest producer of large and small jet engines for commercial and military aircraft. It supplies aircraft-derived engines for marine applications and provides aviation services. Throughout the 1990s, more than 50% of the world's large commercial jet engine orders were awarded to GE or CFM International, a joint company of GE and Snecma of France.
GE Engine Center
GEAE News
Supplier Relations
Customer Training
Customer Facility Support
Customer Support
Appliances
Appliances is one of the largest manufacturers of major appliances in the world, producing Monogram, Profile Performance, Profile, GE, and Hotpoint brands as well as several private-label brands. An industry innovator, products include refrigerators and freezers, speedcook ovens, electric and gas ranges and cooktops, microwave ovens, washers and dryers, dishwashers, disposals and compactors, room air conditioners and water purification systems. GE Appliances serves the world's fastest-growing markets, including India, China, Mexico and South America.
Monogram
Profile Performance
Profile
Innovation
Hotpoint
Parts & Accessories
Extended Warranties
CustomerNet
SupplyNet
Aviation Services
Aviation Services is one of the world's largest aircraft leasing companies, with an owned/managed fleet of 850 airplanes and an additional 150 firm Boeing and Airbus aircraft orders. GE Capital Aviation Services began its involvement in aircraft finance in the U.S. over 30 years ago. Today, it has numerous long-standing customer relationships globally and has significant expertise in both aircraft hardware and complex financial/aircraft trading transactions.
Aviation Training
Customer Login
Latest News
Quality Management
Related Services
Capital Services
Capital Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of GE, is a diversified financial services company that creates comprehensive solutions to increase client productivity and efficiency. Its operations consist of 28 distinct businesses in the areas of Equipment Management, Consumer Services, Mid-Market Financing, Specialized Financing and Specialty Insurance and includes global operations in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Financial Guaranty Insurance Co.
GE American Communications
Auto Financial Services
Capital Markets Services
Card Services
Commercial Direct
Fleet Services
Hawaii
Information Technology Solutions
Modular Space
Mortgage Services
National Trailer Storage
Public Finance
Rail Services
Small Business Finance
Transport International Pool
GE Sea Co.
Small Business Solutions
Commercial Equipment Financing
Commercial Equipment Financing provides innovative solutions to the ever-changing equipment financing and asset management needs of growing companies around the world. Through government guaranteed Small Business Administration loans, direct source tax-exempt financing programs and a wide variety of lease, loan and sale-leaseback offerings, Commercial Equipment Financing provides companies with low cost alternatives to cash as well as debt, tax and balance sheet management.
Your Industry
Your Business
Financial Services
Equipment for Sale
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Commercial Finance
Commercial Finance is a leading global provider of innovative financing solutions primarily for non-investment grade companies. GE Commercial Finance was created in 1994 and consists of seven customer-focused business segments.
Industry & Business News
Customer Solutions
Our Value Proposition
Related GE Services
Employers Reinsurance Corporation
Employers Reinsurance Corporation is a world leader in risk management solutions. ERC provides risk transfer to insurance companies, Fortune 1000 companies, self-insurers, healthcare providers, associations and other groups.
Healthcare
Life
Property & Casualty
Europe
Affiliated Companies
Newsroom
GE Equity
GE Equity is the private equity arm of GE, and is a subsidiary of GE Capital. GE Equity offers innovative deal structures, which includes the use of preferred stock, convertible debt, subordinated debt, and common stock. With a portfolio of over 150 companies located throughout the United States, Latin America, Asia, and Europe, GE Equity provides creative, flexible, and innovative deal structuring designed to satisfy the needs of its clients. GE Equity was formed in late 1995 as part of GE Capital. With 120 investment professionals, and five business units, GE Equity continues to create value for its clients by providing them with the strength of the GE brand name, distribution channels, technology support, business training, portfolio company networking, sourcing discounts, GE knowledge and operating experience.
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GE Advantage
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Representative Investments
Value Beyond Capital
Our Team
Customer Interviews
Instant Help
Financial Assurance
Financial Assurance is a dynamic, integrated family of investment and insurance companies, which includes nine business units. GE Financial Assurance provides quality financial security solutions that help consumers accumulate, preserve and protect wealth over a lifetime and achieve desired financial goals during each stage of their lives.
Insurance
Investments & Annuities
Loans
Extended Warranties
Clubs
Global Consumer Finance
Global Consumer Finance is a leading provider of credit services to retailers and consumers in 29 countries around the world. Global Consumer Finance offers private label credit cards and proprietary credit services to some of the world's leading retailers and manufacturers, automobile financing solutions through auto dealers, and diversified financial programs directly to consumers.
Who We Are
What We Offer
Where We Are
Global eXchange Services
GE Global eXchange Services combines innovative Internet commerce technologies with Six Sigma process disciplines to create intelligence for business supply chains around the globe. The company enables global business-to-business Internet commerce by offering Internet Data Exchange (IDE), which supports all major data formats including eXtensible markup language (XML); Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) software; procurement software and services; and trading partner exchanges. Managing the world's largest electronic community of more than 100,000 trading partners, GE Global eXchange Services is a part of GE Information Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the General Electric Company, USA - and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland. (800) 560-4347.
Products and Services
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GEGXS Worldwide
Careers at GEGXS
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Industrial Systems
GE Industrial Systems is a global leader in manufacturing products used to distribute, protect and control electrical power and equipment, and supplying product and service solutions for commercial, industrial, residential and utility applications. Major products and services include circuit breakers, switches, transformers, switchboards, switchgear, meters, relays, adjustable-speed drives, control and process automation systems, a full range of AC and DC electric motors and comprehensive technical engineering and power management solutions.
Products
Services
Markets
About Us
Support
Lighting
Lighting is a leading supplier of lighting products for global consumer, commercial and industrial markets. Products include incandescent, fluorescent, high-intensity discharge, halogen and holiday lamps, along with portable lighting fixtures, lamp components and quartz products. GE also manufactures outdoor lighting fixtures, residential wiring devices and commercial lighting controls.
Home Lighting
Business Lighting
Lighting Systems
Quartz
Medical Systems
Medical Systems is a world leader in medical diagnostic imaging technology, services and health care productivity. Products include computed tomography (CT) scanners, X-ray equipment, magnetic resonance imaging (MR) systems, nuclear medicine cameras, ultrasound systems, patient monitoring devices, and mammography systems. Its global operations provide sales, service, engineering and manufacturing in more than 100 countries.
Accessories
Computed Tomography
Equipment Service/ Maintenance
Financial Services
Integrated Imaging Solutions (PACS/RIS)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
GE Marquette
Refurbished Equipment
Training and Education
Ultrasound
Women's Healthcare
X-Ray
Mortgage Insurance Corporation
Mortgage Insurance Corporation for lenders and investors, we reduce financial risk by protecting against borrower default. For borrowers, that may mean an opportunity to buy a home sooner... with less down payment.
General Information
Products and Services
Market Trends
Consumer Information
NBC
NBC is a global media company with broadly diverse holdings. In the United States, NBC owns and operates the NBC Television Network, thirteen television stations and CNBC, operates MSNBC in partnership with Microsoft, and maintains equity interests in a wide array of entertainment and sports cable channels and ValueVision International. NBC is the leader among traditional media companies in Internet and new media business and owns 47 percent of NBC Internet Inc. (NBCi). NBC also holds equity stakes in a wide range of new media companies and operates CNBC/Dow Jones Business Video with Microsoft and Dow Jones. Internationally, NBC owns and operates CNBC: A Service of NBC and Dow Jones in partnership with Dow Jones & Company in Europe and Asia. In partnership with National Geographic and Fox/BSkyB, the network owns and operates the National Geographic Channel in Europe and Asia.
MSNBC
CNBC
NBCi
Plastics
Plastics is a world leader in versatile, high-performance engineered plastics used in the computer, electronics, data storage, office equipment, automotive, building and construction, and other industries. GE Plastics components include GE Silicones, GE Superabrasives, GE Electromaterials, GE Specialty Chemicals and GE Polymerland.
Electromaterials
Petrochemicals
Polymerland
Silicones
Specialty Chemicals
Superabrasives
Structured Products
Global Supplier Network
Power Systems
From turnkey power plants to full financial services, project development to engineering and design and total life cycle service, GE is uniquely prepared to fulfill world demand for abundant, reliable and efficient energy well into the next century. The diverse products and services of GE Power Systems represent one of the industry's most impressive portfolios, ready to serve the full spectrum of power needs from wellhead to consumer.
Energy Rentals
Energy Products
Energy Services
Nuclear Energy
Industrial Products
Real Estate
Real Estate finances and invests in a broad range of commercial and residential properties. Real Estate provides financing for the acquisition refinancing and renovation of income producing properties such as office buildings, rental apartments, shopping centers, industrial buildings, mobile home parks, hotels and warehouses. Financing includes intermediate to long term senior or subordinated fixed and floating rate loans, as well as equity on a joint venture basis. Loans range from $2 million for single property mortgages to several hundred million for multi-property portfolios. Real Estate also offers loan servicing and asset management expertise to other real estate investors and advisory services for pension fund clients through GE Capital Investment Advisors.
Capital Access
Capital Access Plus
Institutional Placement Program
Float to Fixed Program
Short-Term Financing
Tax Exempt Bond Financing
Section 42 Tax Credits
Equity Joint Ventures Program
Equity Portfolio Acquisitions
Debt Portfolio Acquisitions
Power Buyer Service
Asset Management Service
Loan Services
GE Capital Investment Advisors
GE Supply
GE Supply is a full line electrical distributor that supplies the construction, industrial, OEM, and commercial markets. It distributes electrical and voice and data products from more than 200 quality manufacturers - through 150 branch locations worldwide, online, via the Internet, or with inventories housed at customer sites. A combination of innovative productivity-building electronic commerce tools, technical expertise and large local inventories give GE Supply customers value and flexibility unmatched in the industry.
e-Commerce Tools
Support Services
Structured Finance Group
Structured Finance Group is a major investor and leading provider of innovative financial solutions for clients in the global commercial and industrial, communications, energy, and transportation sectors. With more than 30 years of experience, Structured Finance Group meets the needs of its clients by combining industry and technical expertise with significant financial capabilities. It delivers a full range of sophisticated financial services and products and participates in development projects, partnerships and joint ventures.
Industries Served
Capital Markets Support
Products and Services
Representative Deals
Press Releases
Careers at SFG
Feedback
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Transportation Systems
Transportation Systems manufactures more than half of the diesel freight locomotives in North America, and its locomotives operate in 75 countries worldwide. Other products include passenger locomotives, diesel engines for marine and stationary markets, electrical propulsion and control systems for rapid transit cars, motorized electric wheel systems for large mining trucks and advanced railway signaling and control systems.
Locomotive Products
Off-Highway Vehicle Drive Systems
Transit Equipment
Renewal Parts
GE-Harris Railway Electronics
Vendor Financial Services
Vendor Financial Services is a global leader in providing financial solutions and services to equipment manufacturers, distributors, dealers and end users. Vendor Financial Services has built and managed successful private label and outsourced sales financing operations by creating flexible programs that sell where our customers need to sell: directly to end users of all sizes, through channel distribution, in the not-for-profit arena, to local, state and federal governments. And every commitment is undertaken to help our customers generate more revenue and enhance their brand equity through innovative, tailored programs. With approximately $15 billion in served assets, Vendor Financial Services works with our customers to drive new business and make existing customers repeat customers through superior service, a commitment to quality and fairness, and the application to the latest technology.
Retain Existing Customers
Service Without Equal
Support Like You'd Build
Tools to Get the Job Done
Quality You Can Feel
VFS Businesses Online
VFS Around the World
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