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- 01 30, 2025
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“THE DIFFICULTIESGEGE GE GE GE inherent in such a reorganisation were many and serious.” In 1893 that was how Charles Coffin, the first chief executive of General Electric (), described merging three businesses into what became the legendary American conglomerate. More than 130 years later Coffin’s latest successor, Larry Culp, must have similar feelings about doing the reverse. On April 2nd split into two public companies: Aerospace, a maker of jet engines, and Vernova, a manufacturer of power-generation equipment. A third, HealthCare, a medical-devices firm, was spun off in January 2023.
