GE Vice Chairman & Technology Infrastructure CEO John Rice spoke today at the Reuters Manufacturing Summit in Chicago about a wide range of topics including GE’s infrastructure performance; the economy and the US stimulus package; GE’s share price and dividend; services & backlog and GE’s global growth.
“We’re going to maintain our commitment to investing in technology,” John said, “because we have a set of businesses … aircraft engines, locomotives and energy that are technical platforms that have been built over decades. You don’t stop and start investing in those. We didn’t slow down in the mid-90s. We didn’t slowdown the investment in the GEnx engine for the 787 after 9-11. This is what you do when you’ve been around for 130 years and we’re going to continue to do that.”
Listen to his opening comments:
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